Fire at Mexican immigration facility kills at least 39 near US border | Reuters
At least 39 immigrants from Latin America died after a fire broke out at a migrant detention facility in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez on the 27th. The National Institute of Migration of Mexico (INM) announced on the 28th. FILE PHOTO: Outside the immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, where the fire started, […]
Angle: Illegal entry from ‘safe’ USA to Canada, surge in refugee applications | Reuters
CHAMPLAIN, NY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Zulema Diaz, a 46-year-old bookseller in Peru, was kidnapped, tortured and robbed of her tragic experience. After leaving her homeland, she tried to find a safe life in the United States of America. However, what awaited Diaz in the United States was the hardship of not having a place to live, […]
Angle: India’s crackdown on illegal child marriage, new tragedy of poverty | Reuters
Radhanagar, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – 15-year-old Pink Das Sarkar lives in Radhanagar, a village in the Nagaon district of Assam in northeastern India. But she is already pregnant. Despite this, her 26-year-old husband, the breadwinner of the family, was arrested on February 2 on suspicion of child marriage, and she is at a loss […]
Norwegian police temporarily detain Greta during a protest demonstration | Reuters
The Swedish environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, was detained twice by the police during a protest in favor of indigenous human rights in the capital of Norway, Oslo on the 1st. FILE PHOTO: Oslo, 2023. REUTERS/Alf Simensen/NTB/via REUTERS OSLO (Reuters) – Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg was detained twice by police on Wednesday during a protest […]
Focus: Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, elderly people who cannot depend on their families and become homeless | Reuters
[Colombo, 8fed, Sefydliad Thomson Reuters]- Kiri Banda used to work as a cook in Sri Lanka’s largest city, Colombo. After retirement, he hoped to spend a peaceful old age with his son. But last year, when Banda’s medical bills began to strain his family’s finances, he decided to move out. Kiri Banda used to work […]
Angle: TikTok ban spreads in US, challenges intertwining interference and freedom | Reuters
[Los Angeles, 9fed Sefydliad Thomson Reuters]-Students at the University of Texas, USA, immediately after classes resumed in January, were told by university authorities that they could no longer access the Chinese video posting app TikTok on the campus Wi-Fi. I was notified of that On February 9, immediately after classes resumed in January, students at […]
China reconnaissance balloon, US government provides information to 40 countries | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States briefed diplomats from 40 countries on February 7 about a Chinese reconnaissance balloon that entered US airspace in late January, according to senior US government officials and diplomatic sources. FILE PHOTO: Surfside Beach, South Carolina, April 4, 2023. REUTERS/Randall Hill WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States briefed diplomats from […]
Global Corruption Ranking, Latin American Countries fall to record low | Reuters
Guatemala, Nicaragua and Cuba fell to record lows in the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index released by anti-corruption group Transparency International on January 31. FILE PHOTO: Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 2023. REUTERS/Sandra Sebastian SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Guatemala, Nicaragua and Cuba hit all-time lows in the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index released on Monday by Berlin-based anti-corruption […]
US senator introduces bill to ban TikTok | Reuters
US Republican Senator Josh Hawley (pictured), known as a hardliner against China, announced on the 24th that he plans to introduce a bill to ban the use of the Chinese short video posting app “TikTok” in the United States. File photo, Arizona, December 2022. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator Josh Hawley, known for […]
Focus: Mexico with highest number of journalists killed, unreported ‘quiet’ areas | Reuters
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Shortly after sunset on Thursday, February 10, 2022, 2 radio recording studios in southern Mexico run by journalist Jevel Lopez Vázquez, 42, A man pulled up in a white Dodge Ram pickup truck. One man got out of the car, entered the studio and shot Lopez dead. Lopez’s brother said only […]
