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Courteously Turning Away: How Latin America Is Building Up New Partnerships
Latinoamerica21
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August 23, 2025
Latin America is at a geopolitical watershed. Instead of continuing to subordinate itself to the interests of the US and Europe, the region is quietly but resolutely seeking to forge new partnerships. While its tone remains diplomatic, the...
U.S. Immigrant Population Falls for First Time in 60 Years, Pew Finds
[your]NEWS
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August 23, 2025
Pew Research Center says foreign-born residents dropped by 1.5 million in early 2025 as deportations and tighter policies take hold. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom The number of immigrants living in the United States has fallen for the first time in...
Haitian chocolate brand AYITIKA wins big at International Chocolate Awards
Haitian Times
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August 23, 2025
Overview: AYITIKA, a Haitian bean-to-bar chocolate brand, won silver and bronze at the 2025 International Chocolate Awards in the United States. The medals, part of a growing list of international honors, spotlight Haiti’s cocoa potential and the...
Immigrant population in US declines for first time since 1960s under Trump admin
The Post Millenial
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August 22, 2025
The US immigrant population is shrinking for the first time since the 1960s as President Donald Trump has implemented a crackdown on illegal immigration, tightened up the visa application process, and taken other steps to implement his agenda. In...
Pew: US immigrant population drops for 1st time in six decades
The Santa Clarita Valley Signal - California
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August 22, 2025
By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer The foreign-born population in the United States declined by nearly 1.5 million between January and June 2025, according to an analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center released on Thursday. The figure...
Latin American and Caribbean laboratories strengthen zoonotic influenza detection through joint PAHO-IAEA workshop
Pan American Health Organization
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August 22, 2025
Rio de Janeiro, August 22, 2025 (PANAFTOSA/SPV-PAHO/WHO) – Laboratory technicians from 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries completed a five-day workshop in Rio de Janeiro to enhance the detection of avian influenza A (H5N1), a virus...
MEA extends privileges under UN Act to International Big Cat Alliance
Hindustan Times
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August 22, 2025
New Delhi: The ministry of external affairs has issued a notification extending the privileges and immunities granted under the United Nations (Privileges and Immunities) Act, 1947, to the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA). The IBCA is a...
Cuban exiles honored at Miami’s ‘Ellis Island of the South’ as Trump ramps up immigrant arrests
WSVN 7 - Florida
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August 22, 2025
MIAMI (AP) — For decades, its powerful lighthouse illuminated Miami’s Biscayne Bay, and during the height of the Cold War, what was known as the Freedom Tower stood as a beacon of hope for hundreds of thousands of Cubans fleeing communist rule....
Q&A: How Pew Research Center estimates the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.
Pew Research Center
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Between 2021 and 2023, the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States grew from an estimated 10.5 million to 14 million, according to a new Pew Research Center report. That is the largest two-year increase in more than 30 years...
60,000 Immigrants To Lose Temporary Protected Status
Truthdig
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August 22, 2025
WASHINGTON — An appeals court late Wednesday said it will allow the Trump administration, for now, to move forward with ending temporary protections for 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua. It means that Nepali immigrants with...
Nicaragua Calls to Latin America to Resist the Imperial Powers
teleSUR
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August 20, 2025 Hour: 7:58 pm The Co-Presidents of Nicaragua, Comandante Daniel Ortega and Compañera Rosario Murillo, traveled to Caracas on August 20, 2025, to attend the 13th Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the...
Latin American Leftists Meet to Oppose U.S. Crackdown on Drug Trafficking
Breitbart
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August 21, 2025
Heads of state from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America — People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) far-left trade bloc condemned this week President Donald Trump’s efforts to address threats from regional drug cartels by deploying...
The Heartbreak, Rage — and Discipline — of Immigration Court Watching
The Marshall Project
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August 22, 2025
Earlier this summer, after watching horrifying footage of masked immigration agents snatching civilians off the street under the guise of fighting crime, I decided to volunteer as an immigration court observer at New York City’s 26 Federal Plaza....
Nicaragua expresses solidarity with Cuba at ALBA-TCP summit
Cuban News Agency
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August 21, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 21 (ACN) Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega reiterated his support for Cuba and its president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, during the 13th Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America-People's Trade...
Nicaragua grants asylum to Colombia’s fugitive former spy chief
Colombia Reports
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August 21, 2025
Nicaragua’s government has granted political asylum to Colombia’s fugitive former spy chief, who is wanted by justice over his alleged role in the embezzlement of public funds. The government of Daniel Ortega announced this after Colombia’s...
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Have 1.6 million illegal immigrants really left the US under Trump 2.0?
Firstpost
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August 22, 2025
The Trump administration is claiming that an unprecedented number of undocumented immigrants have left the country in the United States president’s first 200 days back in office. US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has repeatedly...
Nicaragua Hosts Historic 2025 AmeriCup Basketball Tournament
Tico Times
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August 21, 2025
The 2025 AmeriCup, the men’s basketball Copa América, tips off this Friday in Nicaragua, marking the most significant international sporting event in the country’s history. Twelve national teams are competing, led by the United States, a perennial...
US court allows end of migrants’ protected status
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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August 22, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court's order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central America and Nepal. This means that the...
International News Briefs for Thursday, August 21, 2025
Havana Times
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August 21, 2025
HAVANA TIMES – We bring you some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Thursday, August 21, 2025. Israel Calls Up 60,000 Reservists as It Begins Gaza City Invasion Aug 21, 2025 Israel has announced plans to call up...
Appeals court allows Trump administration to end TPS for Nicaragua, Honduras, Nepal
The Daily Citizen - Arkansas
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A federal appeals court has granted the Trump administration’s request to pause an order from a federal judge who had stopped the termination of deportation protections and work authorizations for immigrants from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal....