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Washington, DC – There were shackles at her wrists. Her waist. Her ankles. The memory of being bound still haunts 19-year-old Ximena Arias Cristobal even after her release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Nearly a month after her arrest, the Georgia college student said she is still grappling with how her life has been transformed. One day in early May, she was pulled over for a minor traffic stop: turning right on a red light. The next thing she knew, she was in a detention centre, facing a court date for her deportation. “That experience is something I’ll…
Israeli military says it shelled targets in Syria in response to a pair of projectile launches.Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned an Israeli strike on the Syrian province of Deraa, saying that it caused “significant human and material losses”, the state news agency SANA reports. The strike came after the Israeli military said that two projectiles had crossed from Syria towards Israel on Tuesday, and fell in open areas in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, though the Syrian Foreign Ministry said these were “reports that have not been verified yet”. The ministry reiterated that Syria has not and would not…
Anna Barclay | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform moved a step closer to having a bitcoin exchange-traded fund available to everyday investors. NYSE Arca, the all-electronic arm of the New York Stock Exchange that handles most ETF trading, filed on Tuesday to list a bitcoin fund linked to the president’s media company, the latest sign of Trump’s expanding push into the crypto world. Known as a 19b-4 form, the filing is required before regulators can decide whether to allow the fund to launch and trade on a U.S. exchange.Called the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF, the fund is designed…
Listen to article Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s announcement to protest against the child marriage bill has sparked widespread discussion online. President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday signed the Islamabad Capital Territory Child Marriage Restraint Bill into law, setting the minimum age for marriage at 18 years. The new legislation criminalises the solemnisation of marriages where either the boy or girl is underage. In response, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Saturday announced a nationwide protest against the government’s proposed legislation aimed at restricting child marriages, arguing that the bill contradicts Islamic teachings and threatens Pakistan’s religious identity. Many users criticised the…
Lee Jae-myung’s hardscrabble path to the South Korean presidency mirrors his country’s stratospheric rise from grinding poverty to one of the world’s leading economies. When Lee, a scandal-prone school dropout-turned-lawyer who was elected in a landslide on Tuesday, was born in 1963, South Korea’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita was comparable with sub-Saharan African nations. South Korea was so poor, in fact, that Lee’s exact birthday is a mystery – his parents, like many families alert to the sky-high infant mortality of the era, took about a year to register his birth. Yet even by the standards of the…
Tourists visit the Hetou ancient street scenic area in Tangshan, north China’s Hebei Province, June 2, 2025.China’s tourism sector saw steady growth during the 2025 Duanwu Festival holiday, also called Dragon Boat Festival, with domestic trips increasing by 5.7 percent year on year to 119 million, according to data released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Tuesday. Tourism revenue reached 42.73 billion yuan (5.95 billion U.S. dollars), up 5.9 percent compared with the same holiday last year. (Photo by Liu Mancang/Xinhua)BEIJING, June 3 (Xinhua) — China’s tourism sector saw steady growth during the 2025 Duanwu Festival holiday, with…
Listen to article Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, reiterated Pakistan’s unwavering commitment to fostering regional economic cooperation at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Beijing on Tuesday. The virtual address highlighted Pakistan’s ongoing dedication to advancing economic stability, prosperity, and development within the SCO framework. Senator Aurangzeb reaffirmed Pakistan’s active role within the SCO, underlining its importance as a vital platform for enhancing economic ties among member states. He commended the SCO’s growing influence in regional development, trade, and investment. Aurangzeb also expressed gratitude to China for hosting the high-level gathering and…
US envoy says Syria strategy ‘will not be like the last 100 years’ as troops pull out.The United States will shut down most of its military bases in Syria, consolidating operations to a single location, as part of a policy overhaul announced by its new special envoy. Thomas Barrack, appointed by President Donald Trump last month as the US ambassador to Turkiye and special envoy for Syria, said the shift marks a rejection of Washington’s past century of failed approaches in Syria. In an interview with the Turkish broadcaster NTV on Monday, Barrack said the troop drawdown and base closures…
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says authorities investigating whether family knew of planned ‘heinous attack’.Federal officials in the United States have taken into custody the family of a man suspected of attacking a pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado, over the weekend. In a video on Tuesday, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that the family of Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “This terrorist will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Noem said in the video. “We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this…
WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES – MAY 30: United States President Donald Trump departs at the White House to U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania in Washington D.C May 30, 2025. Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s new dollar-pegged stablecoin is off to a sluggish start, with muted inflows and little organic demand, new data shows.The USD1 token — launched by Trump’s decentralized finance firm, World Liberty Financial — has so far failed to break out of a narrow speculative niche, according to Kaiko analyst Adam Morgan McCarthy.”Trump is trying to launch this stablecoin in a…