Israeli-Palestinian violence rages as Israeli troops mass along border for possible ground operation
SHANGHAI/BEIJING, Jan 22 (Reuters) – China’s major state-owned banks moved to support the yuan on Monday, tightening liquidity in the offshore foreign exchange market while actively selling U.S. dollars onshore as equities slid, four sources with knowledge of the matter said. The goal was to prevent the yuan from falling too fast as China’s A…
At least 39 people are dead and dozens more are injured after a fire broke out at a migration center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, mere feet from the U.S. border. The fire erupted Monday night at a migrant detention center across the border from El Paso, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed Tuesday morning. Obrador…
The federal government this week shut down a Florida national park after hundreds of illegal immigrants arrived at the location unexpectedly. The National Parks Service said in a press release that Dry Tortugas National Park would be closed on Monday “while law enforcement and medical personnel evaluate, provide care for and coordinate transport to Key…
One of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations delivered small appliances as Mother’s Day gifts to dozens of women in low-income neighborhoods. The deliveries arrived in various cities in the Mexican state of Michoacan as a way to earn public support. The incidents took place this week in seven cities in the Mexican state of Michoacan…
Spain said around 50,000 people had crossed the border since Thursday morning, and estimated that 48,300 had voluntarily returned by 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) on Friday. Juan Jesús Vivas, head of Ceuta’s local government, said as many as 60,000 people had pushed across over the past couple of days. Fifty-seven bodies had been recovered on…
The Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors Friday to consider a longshot bid to overturn its decade-old same-sex marriage precedent, an appeal that is churning fear among some LGBTQ advocates even though the justices themselves have repeatedly signaled little appetite for reopening the landmark decision. The pending appeal comes from Kim Davis, a former…