The Dominican Republic deported more than 276,000 people in 2024, the country’s Immigration Directorate said Wednesday. In the last three months of the year alone, over 94,000 foreigners with irregular status were deported under a new operation aiming to remove up to 10,000 undocumented Haitians per week, ordered by the…
First, they fired the people who look after the nuclear bombs, then had to hurriedly find where they went and hire them back. They got rid of the government agricultural workers responsible for fighting bird flu — which has sent the cost of America’s breakfast soaring. Then, amid rising public…
In January 1988, one of Taiwan’s most senior nuclear engineers defected to the United States after passing crucial intelligence on a top-secret program that would alter the course of Taiwan’s history. Colonel Chang Hsien-yi was a leading figure in Taiwan’s nuclear weapons project, a closely guarded secret between the 1960s…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet European leaders at a vital summit in London on Sunday, after his extraordinary argument with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office left Western allies reeling and threw the future of the Russia-Ukraine war into deep uncertainty. King Charles has also accepted an…
Israel said Sunday it has stopped the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza following the expiry of phase one of the ceasefire deal and Hamas’ refusal of a US-backed extension. The first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, under which dozens of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners…
Here’s a quick recap of the crypto landscape for Friday (February 28) as of 9:00 p.m. UTC. Bitcoin and Ethereum price update Bitcoin (BTC) is currently trading at US$84,278.24, reflecting an increase of 1 percent over the past 24 hours. The day’s trading range has seen a high of US$84,851.28…
Market volatility was on full display this week, beginning with a sharp selloff on Monday (February 24) and exacerbated by a rollout of downbeat economic data, including a weak consumer sentiment report. Those feelings were echoed in the findings of a Harris Poll conducted for Bloomberg News, which found that…
The egg aisle is anything but cheaper by the dozen these days — and that’s becoming a big problem ahead of the Easter holiday. The makers of Easter egg dye kits are bracing for the potential fallout if the egg shortage doesn’t begin to clear up before the April 20…
The meeting between Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Washington on Thursday resulted in an “unprecedented” invitation to the US president from Britain’s King Charles III. But what was actually in the letter that Starmer handed over? Presenting Trump with the missive from the British monarch in…
It was improbable from the start. For months, even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted he wanted to bring the hostages home from Gaza, he resisted signing a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Sustained pressure from thousands-strong marches could not get him to the signing table. But the combined pressure…