2 h. ago US added to human rights watchlist for ‘narrowing’ freedom and now ranks near Serbia and Congo

Nonprofit organization says the U.S. is now considered a country with ‘faltering’ civic freedoms

Politics

6 h. ago DHS launches new app where migrants can say they have deported themselves

The department has announced its plan to roll out a new app that has a ‘submit intent to depart’ feature for migrants

Events

8 h. ago National Lottery Open Week to open UK's iconic gardens to public

National Lottery Open Week offers players the chance to take in the sights and smells of the country's most iconic vernal vistas at a free or discounted rate.

Politics

44 h. ago Tories to seek law change to stop illegal migrants making human rights claims to prevent deportation

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the change was 'critical to shift immigration powers from the courts to Parliament', but they will need the support of Labour MPs to get it passed.

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69 h. ago Donald Trump is an unprincipled, narcissistic charlatan who doesn't give a damn about democracy: ANDREW NEIL

For Trump, freedom and democracy - the core values of the country he leads and the Atlantic Alliance which has united the US and Europe for 80 years - mean nothing.

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3 d. ago Panama to allow 112 migrants deported from the US to move about freely in the country

Panama’s Security Minister Frank Ábrego says Panama will begin the process of issuing humanitarian passes to 112 migrants deported from the United States who have been held in a remote camp in the Darien region since last month

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4 d. ago Germany bond rout worst since fall of Berlin Wall as Merz promises to boost defences

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz (pictured) outlined plans to exclude military spending from the country's stringent 'debt brake' rule to free up cash.

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4 d. ago Alona Hotel in Strathclyde Country Park to host free wedding fayre

The free event will take place on Sunday, March 16, from 12.30pm until 4pm.

Society

4 d. ago How to get free books for children of all ages on World Book Day

Everyone deserves to lose themselves in a good book so this World Book Day all children are invited to collect free books across the country

Politics

5 d. ago Germany's incoming Chancellor pledges to do 'whatever it takes' to boost the nation's defences and moves to lift 'debt brake'

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz (pictured) outlined plans to exclude military spending from the country's stringent 'debt brake' rule to free up cash.

Politics

7 d. ago Lech Wałęsa expresses ‘horror and distaste’ at Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy

Ex-Polish leader, who won Nobel prize for pro-democracy efforts, compares meeting to a communist interrogationThe former Polish president and Nobel peace prize winner Lech Wałęsa has signed a letter to Donald Trump expressing “horror and distaste” at his argument with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the White House last week.The letter, signed by Wałęsa and more than 30 former Polish political prisoners held during the communist era, said Trump and his vice-president’s demands that Zelenskyy show gratitude were “insulting” in the face of the Ukrainian country’s fight for freedom. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Namibian founding president Sam Nujoma is laid to rest and praised as the last African liberator

Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, has been laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery following a state funeral attended by African leaders and foreign dignitaries

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1 week ago ‘Hit them where it hurts’: Americans boycott corporations to protest anti

Participants commit to not spending money for 24 hours to resist Trump administration and Musk’s cutsDon’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.On Friday, Americans across the country are participating in an economic boycott for 24 hours.Organized by the People’s Union USA, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization, the boycott quickly picked up steam across social media, with thousands of users sharing posts with related hashtags. Participants are asked not to spend any money, and if they need to, it is recommended that they shop at a local, small business and pay in cash. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Panama and Costa Rica turning into a ' black hole' for migrants, deportees from US, observers warn

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow

Events

1 week ago The US lines up Latin American cooperation for migrant deportations

Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it’s a U.S. immigration detention facility

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1 week ago White House defends treatment of migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay: ‘It’s a promise the president campaigned on’

Several migrants who’d been detained there say they were treated like animals during their stay at the U.S. naval base

Events

2 w. ago Arizona lawmakers ready ‘bounty’ bill that would pay police agencies $2,500 for every migrant deported

Proposal comes as some states seek stepped-up immigration powers to support Trump deportation agenda

Economics

2 w. ago Chinese woman ‘escapes’ Panama hotel holding hundreds of America’s deportees

An Irish citizen had already been repatriated

Politics

2 w. ago Panama police search for Chinese woman who escaped hotel holding US deportees

Zheng Lijuan fled Panama City hotel as 170 of deported migrants were transported to dense, lawless regionPolice are searching for a Chinese woman who escaped from a downtown Panama City hotel where she was being held following her deportation from the US under Donald Trump’s intensified campaign against immigrants.Zheng Lijuan was one of 299 migrants – from China, Afghanistan, Iran and other countries with which the US lacks extradition agreements – who have been flown in shackles to Panama since last Wednesday. Panamanian authorities say they believe that Zheng was aided by locals who had been “prowling” outside the Decapolis hotel in the capital city where the deportees had been held. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Police search for woman who escaped Panama hotel where US deportees are being held

Zheng Lijuan fled Panama City hotel as 170 of deported migrants were transported to dense, lawless regionPolice are searching for a Chinese woman who escaped from a downtown Panama City hotel where she was being held following her deportation from the US under Donald Trump’s intensified campaign against immigrants.Zheng Lijuan was one of 299 migrants – from China, Afghanistan, Iran and other countries with which the US lacks extradition agreements – who have been flown in shackles to Panama since last Wednesday. Panamanian authorities say they believe that Zheng was aided by locals who had been “prowling” outside the Decapolis hotel in the capital city where the deportees had been held. Continue reading...

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