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Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony remains defiant after being criminally charged for his role in organizing his city’s Pride parade last summer in defiance of Hungary’s anti-2SLBGTQ+ laws. Source link

The bodies of 15 more unidentified Palestinians were handed over by Israel Thursday, in the final exchange of prisoners and detainees between Israel and Hamas. Source link

Democrats in the U.S. Senate are threatening to trigger a partial government shutdown unless the Trump administration agrees to change how its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conduct their controversial crackdown. Source link

A Vancouver-based mining company says 10 of its employees were taken at one of its project sites near the city of Concordia in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa, which has been gripped by cartel civil war since 2024. Source link

U.S. border czar Tom Homan, newly installed as commander of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, promised targeted and strategic enforcements focusing on unauthorized residents with a criminal history. Source link

The FBI on Wednesday searched the election office of a Georgia county that has been central to right-wing conspiracy theories over U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, acting just one week after the Republican leader predicted prosecutions over a contest he has baselessly insisted was tainted by widespread fraud. Source link

Longtime fugitive Ryan Wedding sought a court order to prevent his arrest in Mexico’s Sinaloa state nearly a year before he was finally taken into U.S. custody last week, according to Mexican legal records obtained by CBC News. The documents suggest the Canadian, who is accused of leading a cocaine-smuggling network linked to the Sinaloa […]

A gigantic warehouse across the street from an outdoor equipment store has become a flashpoint in Virginia as the U.S. grapples with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown — and a British Columbia company has been pulled into the fray. Source link

Two U.S. Democratic Representatives visited a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father at a Texas federal detention centre Wednesday, in a case that has stirred anger over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and given fuel to Democrats and others pushing back against the actions of ICE. Source link

For Palestinians in Gaza, the Rafah border crossing to Egypt is their gateway to the world. But since Israel seized it in May 2024, it has been largely shut. Now Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the crossing will reopen soon, as the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan moves into its second phase. Source link