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2+ min ago (340+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 316 event at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., June 8, 2025. REUTERS_Nathan Howard Bloomberg reports Swiss politicians have filed a criminal complaint with the country's top prosecutor over a Rolex table clock and an engraved gold bar that business executives presented to President Donald Trump shortly before he agreed to cut tariffs on the country's exports. "The average person is rightly questioning the legality of these gifts offered to the American president in order to get him to unblock a trade negotiation file," according to the letter from Gysin and Mahaim. The Swiss Attorney General's office confirmed receipt of the complaint in addition to two other complaints filed against "persons unknown.' It said it will examine the complaints, but added that initial scrutiny does not mean an official investigation has been opened. Bloomberg…...

13+ min ago (210+ words) A college student heading home for the holidays was instead picked up by immigration authorities and deported to Honduras despite a court order specifying she couldn't be sent there, her attorney said. "She's absolutely heartbroken," Pomerleau told the outlet. "Her college dream has just been shattered." U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said a judge ordered her to be deported 10 years ago, though the student said she never knew of such an order. Additionally, a judge banned the government from taking her out of Massachusetts for at least three days after her arrest, according to the report. Lopez Belloza is now staying with her grandparents in Honduras. "That was my dream," she told The Boston Globe. "I'm losing everything." The case highlights the complex and often challenging landscape of immigration enforcement in the United States, where young immigrants can face sudden and…...

23+ min ago (360+ words) UN watchdog urges Israel to probe Gaza 'torture' claims Spain reaffirms plan to skip Eurovision if Israel competes How Gaza is entering an uncharted era of foreign guardianship Testing the waters: Is Saudi Arabia re-engaging with Lebanon? As MAGA turns on Zionism, Israel First right stokes Islamophobia The Dutch election shows the far-right never lost its grip How Hani Dajani built a safe space for Arab diaspora voices Inside Amir: A quiet portrait of leaving Iran Migrant Ethiopian women see no relief from Pope's Lebanon visit A UN committee urged Israel on Friday to set up an independent investigatory commission to probe claims of torture of Palestinians, and warned the situation had "gravely intensified" since the start of the Gaza war. The United Nations Committee against Torture said it was "deeply concerned about reports indicating a de facto state policy…...

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32+ min ago (943+ words) The Labour government has opened a new front in its assault on the working class, with dire consequences for many of the people who hold Britain's overstretched health and social care services together. On November 20, Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood unveiled a proposed brutal restructuring of immigration rules under the Orwellian title "A fairer pathway to settlement." The measures are in fact designed to trap migrant workers in a state of prolonged insecurity. The message could not be clearer: work, pay taxes, fill the gaps left by a collapsing system, but do not expect permanent rights, stability or family life in return. It marks a decisive escalation of Labour's nationalist, anti-immigrant agenda which mirrors that of right-wing and far-right governments across Europe and the United States. Under the new system, most migrant workers'including health and social care staff'must live in…...

33+ min ago (609+ words) Ukrainian president's chief of staff Andriy Yermak confirms search, saying he has offered "full cooperation'. Anticorruption authorities in Ukraine have searched the home of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff, as a major corruption investigation continues to roil the country and cause consternation among allies. Andriy Yermak, who leads Kyiv's negotiating team concurrently trying to hash out the terms of a United States-proposed plan to end the four-year war with Russia, confirmed his apartment was being searched on Friday and said he was fully cooperating. "There are no obstacles for the investigators. They have been given full access to the apartment, and my lawyers are present on-site, cooperating with the law enforcement officers. From my side, there is full cooperation," he said on social media. In a joint statement, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's…...

37+ min ago (565+ words) Left: Kabary Salem (Lebanon County Jail). Right: Ola Salem (GoFundMe). A Pennsylvania man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for brutally killing his daughter and then dumping her body at a park in the New York City borough of Staten Island. In October, Kabary Salem, 57, was found guilty by a jury of his peers on one count of murder in the first degree for fatally strangling and beating Ola Salem, 25, in Palmyra " a small town located roughly 92 miles northwest of Philadelphia " in October 2019. On Wednesday, the defendant was sentenced by Lebanon County Court of Common Pleas Judge Bradford Charles to life in prison without the possibility of parole. On Oct. 24, 2019, Ola Salem's body was found partially covered in branches and leaves at Bloomingdale Park. The medical examiner determined she died from asphyxiation and suffered blunt force trauma…...

37+ min ago (324+ words) .S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One as he departs for a state visit to Britain, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., September 16, 2025. REUTERS Kevin Lamarque Legal analyst James D. Zirin says the British legal community are finding cautious comfort in the stretching cracks across the Trump administration. For the last 11 months, British society watched in horror as a brutish American regime tore at one of the planet's premier democracies. The British were horrified by Trump's 28-point peace plan, which gives the United States compensation for any peace guarantees it provides and a share in the profits generated by infrastructure projects in Ukraine funded by frozen Russian assets. British lawyers, said Zirin, were "bewildered" by the Supreme Court's shadow docket, "where summary orders that are said to be interim become law without explanation, opinion, or even revealing which justices voted for the…...

44+ min ago (392+ words) Donald Trump's administration is "wrecking the country" and people are waking up to this, a political commentator has claimed. Writing in The New Republic, Michael Tomasky says the shortcomings of the president and his team have become very clear in the last month. This week in particular has been poor for Trump's administration, with a slate of at-home and world political struggles straining the president and the GOP. Tomasky wrote, "The American people are onto him. They're pessimistic about the future. The distrust goes way beyond the economy." "Over these last few weeks, ever since the government shutdown, it's finally begun to sink in on people that Trump and his entire administration are a bunch of raging ideologues or incompetents or both, peddling a fantasy version of their strength that people no longer buy. There's no longer any doubt about…...

45+ min ago (411+ words) Footage of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at a party at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s (Image: Screengrab via NBC News) CNN host and podcaster S.E. Cupp says that President Donald Trump's "mess" involving deceased convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is only getting worse as the walls are closing in on him. "Donald Trump's 180-degree turn on Epstein over the years has been a saga of self-preservation, useful distraction and false appeasement as the base he conditioned to demand answers has refused to let it go," Cupp, host of CNN's "S.E. Cupp Unfiltered," writes. With the government now reopened and Congress back to work, she says, "the rubber finally meets the road" and it's a rocky one for the president. Following Trump's signing of the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act into law on November 19, The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has until December 19 to publicly…...