At least 71 people, including 17 children, were killed in a devastating road accident in Afghanistan’s western Herat province when a passenger bus caught fire after colliding with a truck and motorcycle, officials said Wednesday. Provincial government spokesman Ahmadullah Muttaqi confirmed the toll in a post on X, calling it one of the deadliest traffic…
The UK on Sunday unveiled plans for a new law that will crack down on criminal gangs behind social media advertisements promoting dangerous small boat crossings and other forms of illegal immigration into the country. Under a new amendment to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill currently going through the Parliament, a UK-wide offence…
A boat carrying 154 migrants capsized on Sunday in waters off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 68 African migrants dead and 74 others missing, the United Nations’ migration agency confirmed. Abdul Qadir Bajameel, a senior health official in the province, said only 10 survivors had been rescued so far — nine of them…
Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended destination, war-torn South Sudan, a country the State Department advises against travel to due…
A federal judge briefly halted the Trump administration on Friday from placing eight migrants on a plane destined for conflict-ridden South Sudan, to give lawyers for the men time to make their argument to a court in Massachusetts. US District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington made the ruling at an emergency hearing on July 4,…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Tuesday that Bengali migrant workers speaking their native language outside the state were being “labelled as Bangladeshis and sent to Bangladesh”.Accusing the BJP of “playing politics over language”, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief said many such cases come…
The US Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for President Donald Trump’s administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show the harms they could face, handing him another victory in his aggressive pursuit of mass deportations. In an action that prompted a sharp dissent…
A day after the US Supreme Court allowed the Donald Trump administration to revoke the legal status of over 500,000 migrants, the President took to Truth Social and posted a provocative image with the words: “Let the Deportations Begin.” The image shows dozens of US aeroplanes taking off simultaneously, symbolising mass deportations. On Friday, the…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let President Donald Trump’s administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States, bolstering the Republican president’s drive to step up deportations. The court put on hold Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s order halting the…
The US Supreme Court on Friday let President Donald Trump’s administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States, bolstering the Republican president’s drive to step up deportations. The court put on hold Boston-based US District Judge Indira Talwani order halting the…