An American citizen detained in Afghanistan last month by the Taliban administration has been released, former US Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said on Saturday. “American citizen Faye Hall, just released by the Taliban, is now in the care of our friends, the Qataris in Kabul, and will soon be on her way…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a graduate student attending the University of Minnesota earlier this week, the school said Friday in a statement that called the situation “deeply concerning.” The student was taken into custody on Thursday at an off-campus residence, the school’s president, Rebecca Cunningham, said in the statement. “The university had…
Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk detained by federal authorities amid rising concerns. (AP Photo) Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national, was detained by federal authorities on March 25, 2025, while walking near her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts. Ozturk, a psychology student, was headed to an Iftar dinner when she was arrested…
Representational (AI generated) On Wednesday, US immigration authorities detained another student, this time a doctoral student at the University of Alabama, as reported by The Guardian. The student was arrested “off-campus” by federal immigration officials. This development follows reports that the Trump administration is increasingly targeting college students for arrest and deportation, including those on…
An international student in a graduate program at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, according to the university’s president and an attorney representing the student. The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen, had a valid student visa as a doctoral student at Tufts, according to a statement…
Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said. Dozens of settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya in the Masafer Yatta area, destroying property, said the…
Prosecutors early Sunday requested that detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the top challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, be formally arrested over allegations of corruption and terror links. A court is now set to decide whether the popular opposition figure will be charged and jailed pending a trial. The arrest this week of Imamoglu has…
The Donald Trump administration detained an Indian national and postdoctoral fellow, Badar Khan Suri, over allegations of spreading antisemitism and having ties to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, Fox News reported, citing the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A researcher at Georgetown University, Suri was arrested by federal agents outside his house in Virginia…
BATHINDA: Despite assurances from Punjab ministers that there were no plans to disrupt farm leaders or the two protest sites, Mohali Police detained several farmer leaders as they began their return journey from Chandigarh. Among those detained were fasting farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha leader Sarvan Singh Pandher. The farmers were…
Tamil Nadu BJP K Annamalai and Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin (File Image) NEW DELHI: A political slugfest erupted in Tamil Nadu after the Enforcement Directorate claimed to have “evidence” suggesting corrupt practices within TASMAC, following the agency’s raids on its employees, corporate offices of distilleries, and plants.While the DMK government categorically refuted the…