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Biden is treating migrants little better than Trump did. That’s shameful | Xochitl Oseguera

We thought the days when our country treated asylum-seekers with cruelty and disdain might be ending. This month we learned we were wrong. Most of us were shaken and horrified,…

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Anne at 13,000ft review – a woman uses skydiving as therapy | Film

Deragh Campbell is an award-winning Canadian actor and film-maker whose recent movie MS Slavic 7 I have to confess to finding weirdly inert and indulgent. She has a starring role…

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Paraguay on the brink as historic drought depletes river, its life-giving artery | Global development

In the shadow of towering grain silos that line the bank of the River Paraná, South America’s second-longest waterway, Lucas Krivenchuk stands watching workers rush to load a barge with…

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Haiti deportations justified because of Covid, Biden homeland secretary says | US-Mexico border

The US homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, on Sunday defended the Biden administration’s decision to send thousands of Haitians to a home country they fled because of natural disasters and…

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Nayib Bukele calls himself the ‘world’s coolest dictator’ – but is he joking? | El Salvador

Among the colourful houses of Comunidad Iberia, an impoverished neighbourhood of San Salvador, the dark glass cube of the Urban Centre for Welfare and Opportunities (or Cubo in its Spanish…

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‘They treated us like animals’: Haitians angry and in despair at being deported from US | Global development

When Evens Delva waded across the Rio Grande with his wife and two daughters, he had dreams of starting a new life in Florida. But less than a week later,…

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Meng Wanzhou and the two Michaels: a timeline | Meng Wanzhou

The 2018 arrest in Vancouver of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on a US warrant, followed by China’s detention of two Canadians, sparked an unprecedented dispute between Beijing and…

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‘End of the saga’? Meng Wanzhou deal offers hope for Canadians held in China | Canada

On a drizzly December day in 2018, Huawei’s chief financial officer landed in Vancouver international airport after a 12-hour flight from Hong Kong. Meng Wanzhou, whose father founded the telecoms…

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Last Haitian migrants removed from Del Rio encampment, homeland security chief says | US immigration

The last of up to 15,000 Haitian migrants have been cleared from their encampment underneath and near a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, the US homeland security secretary announced on…

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Canada, China and US were all doomed to lose in Meng Wanzhou’s case | Huawei

The deal allowing Meng Wanzhou to return home to China nearly three years after her arrest will come as a relief to all the participants in a saga that rapidly…

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Biden is treating migrants little better than Trump did. That’s shameful | Xochitl Oseguera

Anne at 13,000ft review – a woman uses skydiving as therapy | Film

Paraguay on the brink as historic drought depletes river, its life-giving artery | Global development

Haiti deportations justified because of Covid, Biden homeland secretary says | US-Mexico border

Nayib Bukele calls himself the ‘world’s coolest dictator’ – but is he joking? | El Salvador

‘They treated us like animals’: Haitians angry and in despair at being deported from US | Global development

Meng Wanzhou and the two Michaels: a timeline | Meng Wanzhou

‘End of the saga’? Meng Wanzhou deal offers hope for Canadians held in China | Canada

Last Haitian migrants removed from Del Rio encampment, homeland security chief says | US immigration

Canada, China and US were all doomed to lose in Meng Wanzhou’s case | Huawei

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