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US deports immigrants from Jamaica, Cuba, and other countries to the African kingdom of...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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In a late-night post on X on Tuesday, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the five men sent to Eswatini, who are citizens of Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos, had arrived on a deportation plane. She said they were...
Speaking CHamoru: A Guam man’s journey home through language and legacy
Prism
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July 17, 2025
Michael Lujan Bevacqua didn’t always feel like he understood what it was to be CHamoru. Although Bevacqua was born on Guam, he spent most of his life in California, Hawai’i, Oregon, and Swaziland. CHamoru, or Chamorro, is used to identify the...
UPSC Current Affairs Pointers of the past week | July 14 to July 20, 2025
The Indian Express
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July 21, 2025
UPSC Current Affairs Pointers brings you essential current affairs of the past week, every Monday, to aid you in your Prelims and Mains preparation of UPSC, State PCS, and other competitive examinations. Events — Union Minister of Youth Affairs &...
African Craftspeople Journeyed Long Distances to Obtain Perfectly Colored Stones
Archaeology - New York
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July 16, 2025
Natural outcrop of green chalcedony in the Mgwayiza Valley, Eswatini LOBAMBA, ESWATINI—Thousands of years ago, it was so essential that craftspeople in southern Africa had just the right colored stone to make their tools that they regularly...
US sends third-country deportees under secrecy to small African kingdom
WNDU - Indiana
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July 16, 2025
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s largely secretive third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
Here’s the latest random country where DHS is illegally shipping immigrants
Daily Kos
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July 17, 2025
The Trump administration has been deporting immigrants to random countries, and they couldn’t be more proud. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security’s Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin boasted on X that “a safe third...
First Thing: House speaker Mike Johnson calls for release of Epstein files amid backlash
The Guardian
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July 16, 2025
Good morning. Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, called for the justice department to make public documents related to the disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, breaking with Donald Trump over an issue that has...
Why Ignoring Procurement Costs More Than You Think
CFO Dive
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ICE Detains Singer of No. 1 Hit Songs After Decades in the US
Newsweek
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July 24, 2025
Jane Eugene, vocalist of the chart-topping 1980s British R&B group Loose Ends, has been held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody for over two months after being detained near the Canadian border for overstaying her visa for...
MoS Pabitra Margherita embarks on 3-nation tour, to lead India delegation at G20 meeting in South Africa
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 16, 2025
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita will pay an official visit to Eswatini, Lesotho and South Africa from July 18-25, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement on Wednesday....
Kenyans in U.S. on High Alert as Trump Resumes Deportation Flights
Kenyans.co.ke
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July 16, 2025
Kenyans living in the United States have been put on high alert once again after the U.S. government resumed its controversial immigration policy. This week, the Donald Trump administration confirmed the deportation of five migrants, originally...
Videos: Contradictions emerge in bail hearing of murdered Jayden-Lee’s mother
Alberton Record
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Conflicting accounts of clothing and missing occurrence book (OB) entries came under scrutiny today during the bail application hearing of Tiffany Nicole Meek (31) in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court. According to the Roodepoort Record, Meek’s...
US now only has 10th most powerful passport in world...with top three nations now all in Asia
Daily Mail
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July 24, 2025
By MARTHA WILLIAMS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 11:06 EDT, 24 July 2025 | Updated: 11:17 EDT, 24 July 2025 The United States has dropped to its lowest position yet in the ranking of most powerful passport in the world. Americans once held the...
IN MEMORIAM | Farewell Bra Ike Segola, the unsung hero of SA journalism
Sowetan
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July 16, 2025
I first met Ike when he joined us at the Rock, Orlando High School, in the 1950s. He and a friend, Cosmo Nkonyeni, the brother of songstress Ruth Nkonyeni, used to travel to school in Orlando East from Crown Mines in Johannesburg. We became a...
Jayden-Lee Meek murder case: Missing pages and immigration status take centre stage
The Citizen (South Africa)
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July 23, 2025
A senior detective told the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday that Tiffany Meek would be safer in prison than in the community due to public outcry surrounding the case of her son Jayden-Lee’s death. The investigating officer, Sergeant...
SAHRC's 'pro-foreigner stance' comes under fire from ActionSA's Mashaba
Times LIVE
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“It is important to note that no civic group or individual has the legal authority to control access to public health facilities or to enforce immigration laws,” it said. “The power to inspect, arrest or detain undocumented people lies solely with...
AFRAA describes member airlines’ tax concerns
Times Aerospace
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The continent has long been known for high ticket prices, with observers noting a significant part of the problem is the additional costs imposed by governments, which often regard air travellers as being, by definition, well-off and thus able to...
How Did Football Buddies From Utah Join a Coup in the Congo?
New York Mag
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July 11, 2025
Surveillance footage of Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson at a shooting range in West Jordan, Utah. Photo: United States District Court for the District of Utah This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation...
Remembering North Carolina civil rights legend James E. ‘Fergie’ Ferguson II
WBTV - North Carolina
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July 21, 2025
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The Charlotte community was this week mourning the loss of James E. “Fergie” Ferguson II -- a civil rights icon who died at 82. Ferguson’s office -- Ferguson Chambers & Sumter, P.A. -- said Ferguson died Monday, July 21...
James Ferguson, noted civil rights lawyer, dies at 82
Qcitymetro - North Carolina
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July 22, 2025
Get our mid-day newsletter sent to your inbox! James E. Ferguson, a civil rights lawyer who helped form North Carolina’s first integrated law firm, died Monday at age 82. His death was announced by the firm he once led – Ferguson Chambers &...