Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention accused on Jan. 11 Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal of exposing the identity of a whistleblower who had reported wrongdoing of the head of the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries. Shmyhal’s spokesperson denied the allegation. According to the agency, Shmyhal received a report from the commission’s employee accusing […]
A story that had been heading toward a dramatic denouement this month has instead taken an extraordinary turn. What has spun Christopher J. Alexander’s happy hunting jackpot in an unhappy direction might one day become clear. As for facts, perhaps there were merely mistakes made. Perhaps not. Time and the courts will tell. Just about […]
Border guards in Vinnytsia Oblast have prevented a group of men from illegally crossing the Dnister River to Moldova. Source: Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service Details: Border guards reportedly detained 10 men from different regions of Ukraine near the border, on the banks of the Dnister. The “international transfer” was supposed to take place by […]
The Justice Department on Wednesday sued Texas over a new law that lets state and local police arrest migrants who illegally cross the border, the latest legal battle between the Biden administration and Gov. Greg Abbott over immigration. In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Austin, prosecutors said the Texas statute violates the Supremacy […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday sued Texas over a new law that would allow police to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally, taking Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to court again over his escalating response to border crossers arriving from Mexico. The lawsuit draws Texas into another clash over immigration at […]
Ukraine has brought back an unlawfully displaced Ukrainian Oleksandr Naumkin, now 19, from Russia on Jan. 2. Naumkin, a resident of Mariupol, was among the 31 children deported to Russia in May 2022 under the disguise of sending them for rehabilitation to the Polyany boarding house in Moscow Oblast. They are known as “Group 31.” […]
Vsevolod Kniaziev, the former head of Ukraine’s Supreme Court, was found guilty by a court in Kyiv of illegally accepting a gift after it was revealed he was renting an apartment in an elite neighborhood of Kyiv for Hr 1,000 ($26) a month, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) reported on Dec. 27. Kniaziev […]
Statement: “We have our government giving people who came into this country illegally $5,000 gift cards.” Lamb Mark Lamb, sheriff of Arizona’s Pinal County, has campaigned for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination on the promise to “secure the border.” He’s posted short videos on X, formerly Twitter, with what he calls “truth bombs,” mostly about immigration. When […]
OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest whose trees have been hacked away to make room for cocoa bound for places like Europe and the U.S. Kehinde Kumayon and his assistant clear low […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The White House and Mexico’s president on Tuesday came out strongly against a new Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants who illegally cross into the U.S. and empower local judges to order them to leave the country. Also Tuesday, civil rights groups and Texas’ largest border county filed […]
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday approved sweeping new powers that allow police to arrest migrants who illegally cross the U.S. border and give local judges authority to order them to leave the country, testing the limits of how far a state can go to enforce immigration laws. Opponents have […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday signed legislation that makes it a criminal offense to enter the state illegally, setting up a potential clash with President Joe Biden‘s administration over immigration policy and border enforcement. Abbott, a Republican who has implemented other policies directed at migrants that have drawn court challenges, signed the bill at […]