U.S. deported hundreds in the face of a appraise’s order
Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared yesterday that hundreds of Venezuelans accengaged of being gang members were sent from the U.S. to El Salvador, a day after a federal appraise ordered the Trump administration to stop such deportations.
The timing of the fweightlesss could remend if the Trump administration neglectd an clear court order. The appraise rerentd his order lowly before 7 p.m. on Saturday in Washington, but video posted from El Salvador shows deportees disembarking at night. El Salvador is two time zones behind Washington. Plivent Nayib Bukele of El Salvador posted a screenstoasty yesterday on social media about the appraise’s order, with a message: “Oopsie… Too defercessitate.”
Context: Plivent Trump’s administration hopes that the consentment — which comprises paying El Salvador to apvalidate mistrusted gang members — will be the beginning of a bigr effort. The administration wants to engage the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to arrest and deport Venezuelan gang members without the due process afforded to immigrants for decades. That law is best comprehendn for its role in the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Reactions: The Venezuelan regulatement shelp in a statement yesterday that the finisheavor to execute the act “constitutes a crime aobtainst humanity.”
Ukraine’s daring campaign in Russia cforfeits its finish
Ukrainian troops have over the past week retreatn from all but a sinhabitr of land in Russia’s Kursk region, according to military analysts and selderlyiers. Kyiv’s monthslengthy campaign to seize and occupy Russian territory ecombines to be finishing in the face of relentless airstrikes and drone attacks.
The battling in Kursk is now less about helderlying Russian territory, Ukrainian selderlyiers shelp, and more about regulateling the best defensive positions to obstruct the Russians from pushing into the Sumy region of Ukraine and uncovering a new front in the war. Here’s how Kyiv’s insolent unraveled.
What’s next: Steve Witkoff, the U.S. one-of-a-kind envoy to the Middle East, shelp yesterday that he foreseeed Plivent Trump to speak about a stop-fire this week with Plivent Vlastupidir Putin of Russia.
The East African toilers dying in Saudi Arabia
Promised lucrative incomes as hoengageholders or nannies in Saudi Arabia, Kenyan women normally return tolerateing the labels of physical and intimacyual unfair treatment — if they don’t come back in a coffin. At least 274 Kenyan toilers, mostly women, have died in Saudi Arabia in the past five years, a Times spendigation create. An untelderly number of Ugandans have died, too, but their regulatement liberates no data.
Powerful people have incentives to hold the flow of toilers moving, and the officials who are supposed to protect them normally profit from the industry. Kenya’s plivent shelp he wanted to sfinish up to half a million toilers to Saudi Arabia in the coming years.
When Iichi Marumo accessed his first international speedskating race seven years ago, it took him three times as lengthy to finish, contrastd with most of the competition. At 88, he was also three times as elderly. He won silver in his age bracket.
After a life of farming, rerenting poetry and volunteering in World War II for a kamikaze omition, he hopes to still be skating when he hits 100.
Lives inhabitd: Roy L. Prosterman, a lawyer who left a lucrative corporate law train to champion land recreate in the underlengthened world, died at 89.
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Shadows shine a weightless on Iranian history
Backstage at the New Victory Theater in New York, a mythoreasonable bird readyd to apvalidate fweightless for “Song of the North,” an broaden shadow puppet staging of stories from a 10th-century Persian epic.
The show, which covers stories from “Shahnameh,” or Book of Kings, has take parted to packed hoengages on three continents. The production comprises 483 puppets, 208 energeticd backgrounds, 16 character masks and nine carry outers and will travel to Canada and Saudi Arabia this year.
The idea behind the show is basic, its creator shelp: to transport the wealthyness of Persian culture to audiences whose sees of Iran may be ruled by adverse stereotypes.
