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Over 90 arrests made in global crackdown on environmental crime in the Amazon Basin

Over 90 arrests made in global crackdown on environmental crime in the Amazon Basin

BOGOTA, Colombia — Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The crackdown, coordinated by the United Arab Emirates, has...

Napa's Sennott leads boys at Johnny Miller 'Champ" Junior Championship

Napa's Sennott leads boys at Johnny Miller 'Champ" Junior Championship

Jack Sennott of Napa and Sophia Lee of Fairfield won the overall titles at the Johnny Miller “Champ” Junior Championship, a one-day Junior Golf Association of Northern California event on the North Course at Silverado Resort on Wednesday. Sennott,...

Mexico president urges U.S. to avoid immigration action at Gold Cup opener in Los Angeles

Mexico president urges U.S. to avoid immigration action at Gold Cup opener in Los Angeles

MEXICO CITY, June 13 (Reuters) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday urged U.S. authorities not to conduct immigration enforcement targeting attendees of a Gold Cup soccer match in Los Angeles on Saturday, where Mexico's team is due to...

ICE is now hunting for clergy members willing to work in  Guantánamo Bay

ICE is now hunting for clergy members willing to work in Guantánamo Bay

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

More than 120 spring graduates receive Latin honors

More than 120 spring graduates receive Latin honors

Luther College announced that 268 students graduated in the spring of 2025. They were honored at the 2025 Commencement ceremony on May 25. Of the graduating class, 124 received Latin honors across a variety of majors and 18% were first-generation...

'No Kings' Protests Largely Peaceful Across Southland With Violence In LA As Police Clear Crowds

'No Kings' Protests Largely Peaceful Across Southland With Violence In LA As Police Clear Crowds

LOS ANGELES, CA — Police in downtown Los Angeles declared the massive "No Kings" protest an unlawful assembly and aggressively cleared the remaining protesters. They fired rubber bullets into the crowd as well as tear gas and beat protesters with...

Canadian international relations experts share their views on global politics and Canada’s role

Canadian international relations experts share their views on global politics and Canada’s role

A survey of Canadian international relations professors has found they disagree on how to respond to potential Chinese aggression against Taiwan and which global regions will matter most to Canada in the future. For the past 20 years, the...

Mexico’s President Wants ICE to Stay Away from Soccer Cup in LA

Mexico’s President Wants ICE to Stay Away from Soccer Cup in LA

The president of Mexico is hoping that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will give illegal immigrants a pass when Mexico’s team plays in a Gold Cup soccer match on Saturday in Inglewood, California. Mexico will play the Dominican Republic...

Mexico's President Asks for No ICE Raids During Los Angeles Soccer Match

Mexico's President Asks for No ICE Raids During Los Angeles Soccer Match

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday urged U.S. officials to refrain from targeting individuals attending Saturday's Gold Cup soccer match in Los Angeles between Mexico and the Dominican Republic. "We don't believe that there will be any...

Gold Cup soccer match: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum urges US to avoid immigration raids

Gold Cup soccer match: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum urges US to avoid immigration raids

With the Gold Cup soccer match between Mexico and the Dominican Republic scheduled this Saturday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has urged the US not to conduct any immigration raids on the attendees of the game. Her recent comments came in...

Mexico president calls for US immigration forces to spare fans at LA soccer game

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a message to U.S. immigration forces in Los Angeles, asking for grace for fans at the Mexico vs. Dominican Republic Gold Cup soccer game at SoFi Stadium Saturday....

Trade industry optimism takes a tariff hit in Broward County

Companies doing business in and around Port Everglades grew a little more cautious this spring following President Donald Trump’s plan to impose higher tariffs on trading partners around the globe. It wasn’t a big drop in optimism among the cargo,...

Afro-Latine theater in Waterbury keeps moving Pa'lante, despite federal funding cuts

Afro-Latine theater in Waterbury keeps moving Pa'lante, despite federal funding cuts

Growing up, Fior Rodriguez spent her summers with aunts, uncles and cousins putting on a show that her grandmother, a playwright in the Dominican Republic, would write for the whole family to enjoy. When Rodriguez decided to pick up acting after...

Dominican in Florida sentenced for impersonating US citizen to vote in elections

Dominican in Florida sentenced for impersonating US citizen to vote in elections

A Dominican Republic national has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for assuming a U.S. citizen’s identity to vote in multiple federal elections, among other federal crimes. Carlos Abreu, 36, was sentenced to 65 months in...

Chinola Fresh Fruit Liqueurs Expands Distribution With Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits Travel Retail Sales & Export Division

Chinola Fresh Fruit Liqueurs Expands Distribution With Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits Travel Retail Sales & Export Division

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) A strategic agreement poised to accelerate Chinola's global footprint across key export and travel retail markets. NEW YORK, July 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinola Fresh Fruit Liqueurs –the natural, low-ABV, artificial...

Almost 100,000 naturalized Costa Ricans will be able to vote in the 2026 elections

Almost 100,000 naturalized Costa Ricans will be able to vote in the 2026 elections

Q COSTA RICA – Nicaraguans, Colombians, and Salvadorans top the list of naturalized citizens with the greatest presence on the 2026 electoral roll. In total, 94,533 naturalized voters will be able to exercise their right to vote on February 1st,...

Brazil’s president condemns “indifference” towards Haiti in meeting with Caribbean leaders

Brazil’s president condemns “indifference” towards Haiti in meeting with Caribbean leaders

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticised the “abandonment and indifference” of most of the community in the face of the Haitian crisis, during a meeting on Friday with delegations from 16 Caribbean countries. “Haiti cannot be...

Youth baseball coach intervenes after ICE agents in NYC approach members of his team during practice

Youth baseball coach intervenes after ICE agents in NYC approach members of his team during practice

UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- A coach for youth baseball in Manhattan says a group of ICE agents approached members of his team while they were practicing in Riverside Park. Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy founder Yeoman Wilder was coaching...

Mexico president urges ICE to avoid actions at Mexico-Dominican soccer match

Mexico president urges ICE to avoid actions at Mexico-Dominican soccer match

Several New York Police Department vehicles were torched in Brooklyn Wednesday following clashes between police and ant-ICE rioters in Manhattan. (Credit: LLN NYC) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum...

Chinese labour dominates foreign nationals workforce

Chinese labour dominates foreign nationals workforce

Nearly four out of every 10 work permits approved by the Jamaican Government last year were for Chinese nationals, a new report has revealed. The Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) received a total of 5,651 work permit applications in...

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