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World U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has detained an Indian man studying at Washington’s Georgetown University and is seeking to deport him after deeming him a harm to U.S. foreign policy, the student’s lawyer said on Wednesday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined student’s activities ‘rendered him deportable’Thomson Reuters ·Continue Reading

Tri-City Roller Derby to skip bouts in U.S. due to Trump’s 2-gender rule Tri-City Roller Derby in Waterloo region says it won’t travel to the U.S. for eight bouts this year over concerns about how athletes and team members might be treated at the border. In January, President Donald TrumpContinue Reading

In the lead-up to the call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, hosts on Russia’s state media were buzzing with anticipation. One broadcaster on the channel Russia 1 described it as “the most important telephone conversation in the modern world.” When the 2½-hour call wrapped,Continue Reading

World Federal workers with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the first government department targeted by DOGE, have locked down their credit, shut off their Alexas and turned to the secure, encrypted Signal app for communications — just as they’d operate in foreign, autocratic countries. Court ruling Tuesday suggests governmentContinue Reading

World At least six migrants have died and 40 were missing after a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, a spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee Agency said on Wednesday. Ship carrying 56 migrants had set off from Tunisian city of SfaxThomson Reuters · Posted: Mar 19, 2025 9:36Continue Reading

Several U.S. national security agencies have halted work on a co-ordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks, easing pressure on Moscow as the Trump administration pushes Russia to end its war in Ukraine. Former president Joe Biden last year ordered his national security team to establish working groupsContinue Reading

World Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University Palestinian graduate student who the Trump administration is seeking to deport for his role in pro-Palestinian protests, called himself a political prisoner on Tuesday, in his first direct comments since his detention. The permanent U.S. resident is legally challenging his arrest, as government deemsContinue Reading

World Turkish authorities detained President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival on Wednesday on charges including corruption and aiding a terrorist group, in what the main opposition party called “a coup attempt against our next president.” Opposition politicians say arrest of rival to President Tayyip Erdogan is politically motivatedThomson Reuters ·Continue Reading