10 h. ago Why El Salvador President Bukele's foreign agents law is fueling democratic concerns

Human rights organizations, politicians and experts have sharply criticized a law approved by El Salvador’s Congress this week that seeks to limit foreign influence and corruption

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5 d. ago A violent attack on a place ‘where hope lives’: What we know about bomb blast at Palm Springs fertility clinic

Law enforcement agents are still trying to determine who caused the explosion – and why

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6 d. ago ‘An intentional act of violence’: What we know about bomb blast at fertility clinic in Palm Springs

Law enforcement agents are still trying to determine who caused the explosion – and why

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2 w. ago Minerals, mobile phones and militias: how war unfolded in DRC

How the global wrangle for natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is fuelling one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisesHello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week, after three months of fighting, a peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the works. I spoke to our east Africa correspondent, Carlos Mureithi, about the conflict, how quickly it escalated and the prospects for peace. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago El Salvador president orders arrest of of bus company heads for defying free transport order

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has ordered police via social media to arrest five heads of bus companies in the Central American country after they defied his order to offer free transport for a week due to a highway closure

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3 w. ago Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under 18th

A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law

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3 w. ago Trump says he can 'bring back' man accidentally deported to torture prison

President Donald Trump has refused to make the call to El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele to discuss returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he was wrongly deported due to being 'an MS-13 gang member'

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3 w. ago Even El Salvador’s president questioned Trump team on if migrants being sent were actually gang members: report

El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele privately ‘expressed concern’ about who the Trump administration sent to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, according to the report

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last month Families of detainees in El Salvador and Venezuela decry Bukele’s prisoner swap offer

Salvadorian president denounced as ‘tyrannical’ as he floats trading 252 prisoners with fellow authoritarian regimeThe families of prisoners being held by the authoritarian governments of El Salvador and Venezuela have condemned President Nayib Bukele’s offer to swap 252 Venezuelan detainees sent to his jails by the Trump administration for the same number of political prisoners incarcerated by Nicolás Maduro’s regime.Nelson Suárez, whose brother was among the Venezuelan immigrants sent from the US to a notorious maximum-security jail in El Salvador last month, said he was desperate for the release of his brother, from whom he has heard nothing in five weeks. Continue reading...

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