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The Continental Mosaic Immigration Sparks Unrest and Policy Shifts Across North America
McGill Daily
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June 25, 2025
North America is contending with a profound shift in immigration dynamics. From the streets of Los Angeles to the chambers in Ottawa, a new wave of policy crackdowns, legal challenges, and public protests is unfolding, all with a tangible...
Karimnagar rural photographer wins gold in international photography contest
Telengana Today
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June 25, 2025
Karimnagar-based photographer Ponaganti Raju wins a gold medal in the international ‘Our Photo World 2025’ contest for his pre-wedding shot. A self-made artist from a rural background, he has already bagged over 250 national and international...
Nicaraguan, Mexicans, Californians charged with assaulting ICE agents in California
Regional Media News - Iowa
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June 17, 2025
(The Center Square) – As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continue to be assaulted when arresting foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally with lawful immigration orders, U.S. attorneys in California are prosecuting them. In northern...
Nicaragua’s former President Violeta Chamorro dies at 95
The Gleaner
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June 17, 2025
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP): Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in presidential elections and ending Nicaragua’s civil...
Crowley moves into US Northeast – Central America trade
Seatrade Maritime News
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June 26, 2025
The new service will offer a five-day transit between the Port of Philadelphia’s Gloucester Marine Terminal and ports in Guatemala and Honduras. Crowley will utilise its newest LNG-fuelled Avance class container vessels on the route. The company...
Fed Chair Says Trump Immigration Policies Slowing Economic Growth
Forbes
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell gestures as he speaks at a press conference after the ... More Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., on December 18, 2024. At a Congressional hearing, Powell said the Trump administration’s...
Banana prices down up to 11% from Latin America
Fresh Plaza
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June 25, 2025
UK banana prices - week 25: Banana prices declined across several Latin American suppliers this week, with Colombia, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua all reporting lower average prices compared to the previous week. The figures reflect modest but...
Nicaragua ex-president Chamorro laid to rest in Costa Rica
Politiko
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June 17, 2025
Former Nicaraguan president Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to the Central American country after years of war, was laid to rest Monday in Costa Rica two days after her death at age 95. The first woman president of the Americas, who defeated...
OIJ investigates possible influence of the Ortega-Murillo regime in Costa Rica to commit crimes
Q Costa Rica
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June 24, 2025
Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica’s judicial police, the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ), will investigate the possible presence of an arm of the Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime that could be operating on Costa Rican soil to commit crimes...
International Court of Justice is a paper tiger
Pattaya Mail
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June 17, 2025
A Thai soldier on duty at one of the disputed temple sites. The Cambodian government has now officially lodged its several border disputes with Thailand at the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands. But Thai prime minister Paetongtarn...
World News in Brief: Türk speaks on sexual violence, Brazil floods up to date, nicaragues of human rights violations
The European Times
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June 24, 2025
“We do not meet the minimum requirements to prevent women from being reduced to silence and to support their participation and their leadership in … the construction of peace”, Mr. Türk said. 25 years ago, the UN Security advice adopted a...
Immigration police making their presence known at NYC-area Home Depots
Gothamist - New York
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June 16, 2025
Day laborer hubs outside Home Depots in the New York City metropolitan area have become hotspots for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests, according to witnesses and immigrant advocates. ICE agents took as many as a dozen men...
Chinese investment protection in Latin America: Navigating regulatory risks through strategic arbitration
JD Supra - California
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June 24, 2025
[co-author: Coline Desveaux] As China's economic engagement with Latin America reaches unprecedented levels, Chinese investors are navigating an increasingly complex landscape of opportunities and risks across the region's critical infrastructure,...
The "Leo XIV Effect" Being Felt in Nicaragua
FSSPX.NEWS
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Since the summer of 2024, the Nicaraguan government had suspended most priestly ordinations in the country, marking a new stage in tensions between the Catholic Church and President Daniel Ortega’s regime. Suffice it to say, the ceremony on June 7...
'Scared to be brown': California residents fearful amid immigration raids
The Daily Pilot - Calfornia
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June 25, 2025
Jackie Ramirez has always been aware of the color of her skin. There was the school crossing guard who nicknamed her morenita, little brown girl. The uncle who affectionately called her paisita, a country girl. But never has skin color felt so top...
Nicaragua’s Pioneer Stateswoman Who Beat Ortega and Sought Harmony
LatinAmerican Post
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June 16, 2025
When Violeta Barrios de Chamorro stunned the hemisphere in 1990 by unseating the Sandinista revolution, many Nicaraguans saw only a grieving widow in a white dress. They soon discovered a steely publisher determined to cut rifles in half and teach...
Supreme Court rules Trump can rapidly deport immigrants to Libya, South Sudan and other countries they aren’t from
The Conversation
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June 24, 2025
For the past several months, the Trump administration has been trying to deport immigrants to countries they are not from – despite an April 2025 federal ruling that had blocked the White House from doing so. A divided Supreme Court decided on...
President Trump Reverses Course on Deportation Plans, Promising to Target Migrants in Democrat-Run Sanctuary Cities
The New York Sun
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June 16, 2025
After a weekend of criticism that he was going soft on his “America First” agenda by ordering immigration agents to skip roundups of farm and hotel workers, President Trump reversed course again late Sunday and said he will now turn his focus to...
Costa Rica Hunts for Nicaraguan Hit Squad After Exile’s Assassination
Tico Times
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June 25, 2025
Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) is investigating whether a hit squad tied to Nicaragua’s Ortega-Murillo regime is targeting exiled critics on its soil. The probe began after Roberto Samcam, a 66-year-old retired Nicaraguan army...
Latin American states denounce Israeli attacks on Iran, express solidarity
Tehran Times
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June 16, 2025
TEHRAN –Various Latin American heads of state and political groups have condemned the Zionist regime’s terrorist strikes against Iran, expressing solidarity with the Iranian nation. Tel Aviv’s unprovoked strikes since Friday, killing many...