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Security forces escort migrants after their arrival at Freetown International Airport, in Lungi, Sierra Leone, on May 20.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 8, 2026
How U.S. is using cash and threats to dump migrants in Africa
Lawyers say deportees have been thrown into a ¡°legal black hole,¡°?held without charges in countries where they have no ties and few if any rights.
A police officer watches prisoners during a visit by El Salvador¡¯s minister of justice and public security, Gustavo Villatoro, and Chile¡¯s president-elect, Jose Antonio Kast (not pictured), to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 1, 2026
Chile President-elect Kast visits Bukele¡¯s mega-prison to spotlight security plans
Kast is an ultraconservative who wants to eradicate irregular migration and organized crime in one of Latin America¡¯s richest nations.
Jade, 16, holds a picture showing her father, Jose Urquia, in her home in El Rosario, El Salvador, on Dec. 3.
WORLD / Society
Jan 15, 2026
¡®Silent crisis¡¯: The generation of Salvadorans deprived of a father
Around 91,000 people, mostly young men, have been thrown into prison since 2022 on suspicions that they are gang members, some simply because they had tattoos.
Then-Argentine presidential candidate Javier Milei of the La Libertad Avanza party addresses a campaign rally in Buenos Aires in September 2023. He went on to win the election.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 9, 2026
The year of the right is looming in Latin America
If 2025 marked the reemergence of Latin America¡¯s right, then 2026 is likely to cement it.
CBS ?abruptly pulled a "60 Minutes" report on a Salvadoran mega prison housing U.S.-deported migrants hours before it was due to air on Sunday evening in the U.S.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 23, 2025
¡®60 Minutes¡¯ report on Salvadoran prison pulled from CBS but pops up online
CBS ?abruptly pulled the segment hours before it was due to air on Sunday evening in the U.S., sparking accusations that the move was politically motivated.
Salvadoran migrant and U.S. resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrives at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Maryland, on Aug. 25.
WORLD / Society
Dec 12, 2025
Abrego Garcia released as U.S. bid to detain him ruled ¡®constitutionally infirm¡¯
The decision is the latest setback for the Trump administration, which admitted earlier this year that it had sent Abrego Garcia to El Salvador by mistake.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (center) is flanked by his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura (right) and his brother Cesar (left) as he arrives for his immigration check-in on Monday in Baltimore.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 29, 2025
Why are countries accepting deportees from the U.S.?
Several poor countries, mostly in Africa, have agreed to take deportees from the United States who are almost entirely citizens of other countries.
The U.S. State Department's 2024 Human Rights Report was delayed for months as appointees of President Donald Trump altered an earlier draft dramatically to bring it in line with "America First" values, according to government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 13, 2025
U.S. State Department softens criticism of some countries in human rights report
The 2024 Human Rights Report¡¯s section on Israel was much shorter than last year¡¯s edition and made no mention of the severe humanitarian crisis or death toll in the Gaza Strip.
U.S. President Donald Trump (right) meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on April 14.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 7, 2025
U.S. to ease criticism of El Salvador, Israel and Russia, says report
The Trump administration has increasingly moved away from the traditional promotion of democracy and human rights.
Prison guards at the Terrorism Confinement Center, a facility denounced by human rights groups, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 11
WORLD / Politics
Jul 8, 2025
Lawyers say new evidence challenges Trump on El Salvador prisons
The case is one of the highest-profile challenges to the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s crackdown on immigration.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who lived in the U.S. legally with a work permit and was erroneously deported to El Salvador, is seen wearing a Chicago Bulls hat, in this image obtained on April 9.
WORLD
Jun 27, 2025
Trump administration will put Abrego on trial before deporting him again
The case of Kilmar Abrego has become a flashpoint over U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s hard-line immigration agenda.
A Homeland Security vehicle is parked in front of the Fred D. Thompson Federal Building, housing the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, where Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported from Maryland to El Salvador by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, faces criminal charges, in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 7, 2025
Wrongly deported Salvadoran migrant arrested on return to U.S.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was brought back to the United States from El Salvador and charged with trafficking undocumented migrants, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out Friday at the Supreme Court after it blocked his bid to resume deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members, saying the justices are "not allowing me to do what I was elected to do."
WORLD / Politics
May 17, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court maintains block on Trump deportations under wartime law
The top court faulted his administration for seeking to remove the Venezuelan migrants without adequate legal process.
A drone view shows detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
May 1, 2025
Abrego Garcia judge says U.S. must give answers on his return
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled Wednesday that the government must answer questions on its efforts to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a letter from Britain's King Charles as he meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House in Washington on Feb. 27.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 28, 2025
Trump¡¯s first 100 days: ¡®America First¡¯ president is overturning world order
Trump¡¯s second-term agenda has alienated friends and emboldened adversaries while raising questions about how far he is prepared to go.
People walk past the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 22, 2025
Does Trump¡¯s Venezuela deportation notice comply with Supreme Court ruling?
A judge has expressed skepticism that the notice informs Venezuelan migrants of their right to legally challenge their removals.
The Bluebonnet Detention Facility is seen after the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday temporarily barred U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from deporting Venezuelan men in immigration custody, in Anson, Texas, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 20, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportations of Venezuelan migrants under wartime law
Many of the migrants¡¯ lawyers and family members say they were not gang members and had no chance to dispute the government¡¯s assertion that they were.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen meets Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man wrongly deported to El Salvador by the administration of Republican President Donald Trump, in this image released Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 19, 2025
U.S. senator meets wrongly deported Salvadoran man at hotel and calls for release
The case has pitted a defiant White House against the courts, including the Supreme Court, raising the prospect of a constitutional conflict.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 15, 2025
Trump calls for deporting some citizens to El Salvador, testing U.S. law
The comments are the clearest signal yet that the president is serious about deporting naturalized and U.S.-born citizens, a proposal many legal scholars say is unconstitutional.
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday
WORLD / Politics
Apr 15, 2025
El Salvador¡¯s Bukele won¡¯t return man the U.S. mistakenly deported
The Trump administration has deported hundreds of people to El Salvador, which is receiving $6 million to house the migrants in a high-security mega-prison.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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