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USAID missions shutting down, staff ordered to return from overseas
Multiple sources have confirmed that all United States Agency for International Development overseas missions will be shut down and all staff members will be recalled by Friday. Maura Reap, former ...CBS News - 1h -
Rubio touts Bukele's 'generous' offer to jail U.S. citizens in El Salvador but experts say it's illegal
Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a former U.S. attorney said.NBC News - 2h -
El Salvador offers to hold deportees and incarcerated US citizens in its jails
Human rights groups alarmed as Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, meets with Nayib Bukele during overseas trip. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to accept deportees from the US ...The Guardian - 4h -
Trump signs executive order to withdraw U.S. from U.N. Human Rights Council
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council and UNRWA and for broader review of U.S. funding for the international ...NBC News - 4h -
Soldiers from El Salvador join U.N.-backed mission in Haiti to combat gang violence
Seventy soldiers from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to support a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people last year and control much of ...ABC News - 6h -
El Salvador offers to house convicted Americans for a fee
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele made an offer to Secretary of State Marco Rubio to accept deported migrants from any country and house American citizens convicted of crimes in exchange for a fee ...NBC News - 13h -
Rubio says El Salvador has offered to accept US deportees of any nationality as well as violent American criminals
Rubio says El Salvador has offered to accept US deportees of any nationality as well as violent American criminalsABC News - 22h -
'Generous' El Salvador offer to house American criminals faces 'legalities:' Rubio
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that El Salvador’s offer to house American criminals in its prison system is “very generous” but could face “legalities.” “There are obviously ...The Hill - 6h -
Rubio says El Salvador president agrees to house US criminals in his country's jails
Marco Rubio met with El Salvador’s president and said they've agreed to not only take in deported foreign nationals who committed crimes, but also jailed U.S. citizens.ABC News - 9h -
El Salvador offers to house 'American criminals,' deportees: Rubio
El Salvador has offered to house criminals who are American citizens and deportees of other nationalities, according to the Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio said late Monday that Salvadoran ...The Hill - 12h -
El Salvador offers to lock up US criminals in its mega-jail
El Salvador says it can house dangerous criminals, including US citizens, in its mega-jail.BBC News - 15h -
Ex-Tory MP reportedly joins Ukraine foreign legion in non-combat role
Former party deputy chair Jack Lopresti said to be carrying out support work to help the country’s fight against Russia. A former Conservative MP ousted in the 2024 election has reportedly joined ...The Guardian - 16h -
Gangs attack a neighborhood in Haiti that's home to the country's elite
Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighborhood that’s home to most of the country’s elite and had been largely untouched by criminalsABC News - 18h -
Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees and house U.S. criminals
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that President Nayib Bukele from El Salvador has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now ...NBC News - 19h -
El Salvador offers to house US prisoners in its jails
As Rubio visits, president says country could take American citizens as well as ‘violent’ immigrantsFinancial Times - 20h -
Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality, including Americans
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United ...ABC News - 22h -
USMNT's Jack McGlynn joins Houston from Union
United States international Jack McGlynn as joined the Houston Dynamo on a permanent deal from the Philadelphia Union, the two teams announced on Monday.ESPN - 1d -
Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador
Critics decry ‘politically motivated’ decision to revisit civil war-era charges against leaders of anti-mining campaign. Five Salvadorian environmental defenders who were exonerated of bogus civil ...The Guardian - 2d -
U.N. warns of executions and gang rapes as war in Congo escalates
The U.N. voices concern over alleged atrocities as Rwandan-backed rebels reportedly advance after seizing the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.CBS News - 4d -
El Salvador's Congress clears hurdle to speed constitutional reforms
El Salvador’s Congress has ratified a constitutional reform that will make it easier and faster to make constitutional changes in the future, a change critics say will allow President Nayib Bukele ...ABC News - 5d -
Trump eyes asylum agreement with El Salvador to deport migrants there
The arrangement, known as a "Safe Third Country" agreement, would empower U.S. immigration officials to deport non-Salvadoran migrants to El Salvador.CBS News - Jan. 27 -
Trump eyes asylum agreement with El Salvador to deport migrants there
The Trump administration is developing an asylum agreement with El Salvador's government that would allow the U.S. to deport migrants to the small Central American country who are not from there, ...CBS News - Jan. 26 -
Hamas names four female Israeli soldiers it will release from Gaza this weekend
Final female Israeli civilian held in Gaza not on list of names supplied by Hamas for next exchange. Hamas has published the names of four female Israeli soldiers being held captive in Gaza who it ...The Guardian - Jan. 24 -
Jamaican city gripped by violence after police shooting of gang boss
Spanish Town brought to standstill amid gunfire on streets after police kill Othneil ‘Thickman’ Lobban. Schools and businesses in a Jamaican city have been closed and taxis and buses stopped ...The Guardian - Jan. 23 -
Violence erupts after police in Jamaica kill a top gang leader they had sought for years
Police in Jamaica have killed a top gang leader whose death has unleashed a violent backlash near the capital of Kingston as authorities were placed under an extreme threat levelABC News - Jan. 23 -
Colombian president visits southern Haiti as country battles surge in gang violence
Colombian President Gustavo Petro is visiting Haiti as part of a whirlwind trip to strengthen ties with the violence-wracked countryABC News - Jan. 22 -
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Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes who lived in exile in Nicaragua dies at 65
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late TuesdayABC News - Jan. 22 -
Inside an Elite Ukrainian Unit's Mission to Capture a North Korean Soldier
Ukraine wanted to show that North Korean troops are fighting alongside Russian troops. It took a high-stakes mission to prove it.The Wall Street Journal - Jan. 19 -
Women’s Ashes: Knight backs England’s T20 strength in rescue mission
Captain confident tourists can succeed in T20 format Australia won three ODIs to leave tourists on brink Heather Knight said that England’s strength in the Twenty20 format will give them the ...The Guardian - Jan. 19 -
Colombian drug gang violence kills 60 people
Attacks between guerrilla groups have also seen thousands displaced from the country's Catatumbo region.BBC News - Jan. 19 -
Gauff fights back to join Sabalenka in quarters
Coco Gauff fights from a set down to beat Belinda Bencic and join defending champion Aryna Sabalenka in the Australian Open quarter-finals.BBC News - Jan. 19 -
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More than a million Haitians forced from their homes amid gang violence
UN agency says more than half of the displaced people are children, as gang attacks see upswing in Port-au-Prince. More than 1 million people have been forced from their homes in Haiti amid a ...The Guardian - Jan. 14 -
Ukraine’s highest profile combat unit to recruit English-speaking soldiers
Azov, a volunteer brigade, plans to form international battalion to boost numbers as Ukraine heads into fourth year of war. The Britons killed fighting for Ukraine against Russia Ukraine’s ...The Guardian - Jan. 10 -
5.8-magnitude earthquake shakes El Salvador; no initial reports of damage
A strong earthquake drove frightened residents of El Salvador’s capital into the streets, but there was no immediate report of damage or deathsABC News - Jan. 9 -
Malawi sees influx of refugees from post-election violence in Mozambique
Marauding gangs and political unrest since October’s polls have driven thousands of Mozambicans across the border into Malawi, despite its drought, food and fuel shortages. On a sunny Saturday ...The Guardian - Jan. 8 -
Death toll of Haiti gang violence rose to 5,600 in 2024, UN says
UN Human Rights Office adds that 2,200 were injured and nearly 1,500 kidnapped as international mission struggles. More than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year, the UN has said, ...The Guardian - Jan. 7 -
The UN says more than 5,600 people were killed in Haiti last year as gangs rampage
Officials say more than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya struggles to contain rampant gang violenceABC News - Jan. 7 -
In Haiti, Gang Massacres and Journalist Murders Expose the Country’s Fragility
In Haiti, gangs have killed hundreds of people and shot journalists at a news conference, exposing the country’s fragility and the government’s failures.The New York Times - Jan. 6
