UNITED STATES
Immigrant release ordered
A federal judge has ordered the government to release from detention centers immigrant children and their mothers caught entering the nation illegally from Mexico. In a filing late on Friday, California US District Judge Dolly Gee rejected the government’s request that she reconsider her ruling and ordered it to implement remedies by Oct. 23, saying the children and their mothers must be released without unnecessary delay. Two centers in Texas and one in Pennsylvania held about 1,400 people recently, mostly Central Americans seeking asylum after fleeing violence at home. The government had fought the judge’s ruling, saying that the facilities had been turned into short-term processing centers. However, Gee said in her order that the government remains in violation of a longstanding legal agreement that bans immigrant children from being held in secure unlicensed facilities.
JORDAN
UN touts female education
The head of the UN Population Fund said the agency’s “new mantra” is to keep girls in school until age 18 “in every nook and cranny of the world,” as a key means of slowing population growth. The UN expects the world’s population to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion by 2050. Agency executive director Babatunde Osotimehin said women tend to have fewer children if their first is born after they have turned 18 years old. He previously said that one in three girls is married before the age of 18. Osotimehin at a conference in Jordan on Friday said that pushing for primary education is not enough, adding that “we must up our game” as UN members prepare to ratify ambitious development goals for 2030 next month.
VENEZUELA
Border closure extended
President Nicolas Maduro is extending indefinitely the closure of a popular border crossing with Colombia and declaring a 60-day state of emergency in several western cities. Maduro earlier in the week announced a 72-hour closure of the normally busy crossing in Tachira State in response to a shooting of three army officers while patrolling for smugglers. On Friday night, he said the crossing would remain closed until the assailants are caught, adding that the state of emergency would allow security forces to reassert control over the long-volatile border. Maduro blamed smugglers and paramilitaries from Colombia for violence that has spilled over the 2,200km border in recent years. Opponents decried Maduro’s move and said that it might be an attempt to thwart defeat in upcoming legislative elections.
INDIA
Kashmiri separatist detained
Kashmiri leader Zameer Ahmed said that police have detained a top Kashmiri separatist leader after he landed at New Delhi’s airport ahead of talks between Indian and Pakistani security advisers. Ahmed said Shabir Ahmed Shah yesterday flew in from Indian Kashmir for a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s national security adviser Sartaj Aziz, who is scheduled to arrive in the Indian capital today. Shah and two colleagues were driven away from the airport by the New Delhi police, said Ahmed, who is also detained by the police. India opposes Pakistani leaders meeting with Kashmiri separatist leaders in New Delhi. The police in Indian Kashmir confirmed Shah’s detention in New Delhi.
In months, Lo Yuet-ping would bid farewell to a centuries-old village he has called home in Hong Kong for more than seven decades. The Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon is filled with small houses built from metal sheets and stones, as well as old granite buildings, contrasting sharply with the high-rise structures that dominate much of the Asian financial hub. Lo, 72, has spent his entire life here and is among an estimated 860 households required to move under a government redevelopment plan. He said he would miss the rich history, unique culture and warm interpersonal kindness that defined life in
AERIAL INCURSIONS: The incidents are a reminder that Russia’s aggressive actions go beyond Ukraine’s borders, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha said Two NATO members on Sunday said that Russian drones violated their airspace, as one reportedly flew into Romania during nighttime attacks on neighboring Ukraine, while another crashed in eastern Latvia the previous day. A drone entered Romanian territory early on Sunday as Moscow struck “civilian targets and port infrastructure” across the Danube in Ukraine, the Romanian Ministry of National Defense said. It added that Bucharest had deployed F-16 warplanes to monitor its airspace and issued text alerts to residents of two eastern regions. It also said investigations were underway of a potential “impact zone” in an uninhabited area along the Romanian-Ukrainian border. There
The governor of Ohio is to send law enforcement and millions of dollars in healthcare resources to the city of Springfield as it faces a surge in temporary Haitian migrants. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Tuesday said that he does not oppose the Temporary Protected Status program under which about 15,000 Haitians have arrived in the city of about 59,000 people since 2020, but said the federal government must do more to help affected communities. On Monday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost directed his office to research legal avenues — including filing a lawsuit — to stop the federal government from sending
Three sisters from Ohio who inherited a dime kept in a bank vault for more than 40 years knew it had some value, but they had no idea just how much until just a few years ago. The extraordinarily rare coin, struck by the US Mint in San Francisco in 1975, could bring more than US$500,000, said Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections, which specializes in currency and is handling an online auction that ends next month. What makes the dime depicting former US president Franklin D. Roosevelt so valuable is a missing “S” mint mark for San Francisco, one of just two
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