David Ryder/Getty Images The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency deported more than 185,000 illegal aliens in Fiscal Year 2020 including more than 4,200 gang members, despite operational disruption caused by the Chinese coronavirus crisis. Between October 1, 2019, and September 30, 2020, ICE agents deported 185,884 illegal aliens from the United States. About 64…
Divisions over Brexit, both political and social, remain deep and are likely to last for years, despite a muted end to the saga overshadowed by the global health crisis. Britain on Friday began a new year and life outside the European Union after leaving the bloc’s single market, with the first trucks crossing the Channel…
Vaccinations are conducted at the Community Health Service Center in Enshi city, Hubei Province on 30 December 2020. Source: AAP A year on after the first global cases of COVID-19 appeared in Wuhan, a number of countries have already begun implementing mass vaccination programs. Around 50 countries around the world have already started vaccinating their…
Difficult times caused by the coronavirus are not over as the region pivots for new year. Business owners protest against the nationwide closure in Tel Aviv on October 15, 2020 – (photo credit: FLASH90) 2020 was a vicious year for businesses of all sizes. No region was spared disruption from the coronavirus pandemic and every business sector…
The pandemic and its many travel restrictions haven’t stopped thousands of migrants from attempting the dangerous trip across the Mediterranean Sea this year. More than 1,000 have died at sea. AILSA CHANG, HOST: One group of people continues to take on dangerous travel despite all the restrictions of the global pandemic. I’m talking about migrants…
A woman is led into a building by Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, after illegally crossing the border from the United States at Roxham Road in Champlain, N.Y. The U.S. and Canada agreed in March to close their border to asylum seekers at unauthorized entry points such as this with an agreement that…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday that American households should expect to receive their economic impact payments very soon. Mnuchin said the government would begin sending out paper checks on Wednesday, which means people should begin receiving those within the next two weeks. Steven Mnuchin@stevenmnuchin1 Paper checks will begin to be mailed tomorrow. Later this week, you…
Amna Nawaz: Now to Venezuela and the ongoing struggle for power amid a growing humanitarian crisis. Next week, a new Parliament is set to be sworn in, after members of the opposition boycotted elections earlier this month. That leaves opposition leader Juan Guaido in an even more precarious position and the country with an uncertain…
CAIRO – (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry on Monday extended a ban on entry to the kingdom by air, land, and sea for another week amid concerns over a fast-spreading variant of the new coronavirus, the state news agency SPA reported. Saudi Arabia shut its borders on Monday, Dec. 21, and suspended international commercial…
The European Union and United Kingdom have reached a post-Brexit free trade deal, officials announced Thursday – just days before the U.K. is scheduled to finalize its departure from the bloc at the end of the year. “So we have finally found an agreement. It was a long and winding road but we have got a good deal…