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Photo credit: QKED There have been allegations of systemic sexual abuse of unaccompanied migrant children by staff of a private contractor for the US government. UCANews reports that Catholic immigration and anti-trafficking advocates are gravely concerned over the allegations against Southwest Key Programs based in Austin, Texas. The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit…

Photo credit: Philippines News The Philippines has ordered about 20,000 foreign workers in mostly Chinese-owned gambling companies to leave the country within 60 days. Asia Pacific Newsroom reports that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has banned Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators for alleged links to crimes, human trafficking, and financial scams. He gave the gaming regulator until…

Photo credit: NBS News According to numbers compiled by a Cuban economist and demographer, Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos, the island’s population fell by 18% between 2022 and 2023. El Pais reports that dozens of people are fleeing Cuba. People fly from Havana airport to Nicaragua daily, trying to escape the country’s collapse. Three years ago, there…

Photo credit: Los Angeles Times US Vice President Kamala Harris has opened up with a marginal two per cent lead Republican candidate, former president Donald Trump. A poll by Reuters/Ipsos has found that it compares with a marginal two-point deficit Biden faced against Trump in last week’s poll before his exit from the race. The…

Photo credit: the New Yorker It’s no longer news that the American President has dropped out of the race for the White House. It wasn’t an easy decision for him to make, but in spite of everything, he still made it. To crown it all, he endorsed his Vice President, Kamala Harris, a Black woman,…

Photo credit: Asia Times Some dozens of asylum seekers from Vietnam will be sent home on Wednesday from the UK. BBC reports that they should have been sent to Rwanda, but since the Labour government scrapped the Rwanda plan, it will use the plane intended to remove people to Rwanda to send around fifty-five people to…

Photo credit: Daily Sabah Turkiye’s Coast Guards have rescued eighty-eight irregular migrants pushed back into Turkish waters by Greek forces and apprehended fourteen others. AA reports that the operations were carried out off the Aegean coast on Sunday. In western Izmir province’s Dikili district, 39 migrants, including 19 children, were rescued from a rubber dinghy with…