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After nearly 250 days in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, Winnipeg-born Clayton Herman walked free on Monday.  On the drive to his home in Ojai, Calif., from the Adelanto ICE Detention Centre after his release, Herman told CBC he’s most looking forward to sleeping in a proper bed and …

Gaza activists who were detained by Israel, and later pinned to the ground to the taunts of the country’s far-right police minister, have been released from prison and sent home. The activists, whose vessel was intercepted earlier this week in international waters by Israeli naval forces as they were trying to deliver …

Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A U.S. federal judge has thrown out an administrative board’s decision endorsing the Trump administration’s policy …

Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A five-year-old boy and his father detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held in Texas …

Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. U.S. Democratic Reps. Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett visited a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father …

In July, Maxen, a Haitian man living in Hamilton drove to the Canada-U.S. border in Quebec where he’d arranged to pick up his two sisters coming from Miami, but the reunion didn’t happen as planned.  The sisters, who fled Haiti last year due to violence, had hoped to settle in …

The Trump administration’s plans for mass deportation now include Libya, which would represent a remarkable development given the North African country’s controversial treatment of migrants, and its fraught history with the U.S. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued an order on Wednesday restricting the removal of migrants to Libya after Reuters, citing three …

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said on Monday that a U.S. airstrike hit a prison holding African migrants, killing at least 68 people and wounding 47 others.  The strike in Yemen’s Saada governorate could raise questions about the U.S. campaign, known as “Operation Rough Rider,” which has been targeting Houthi rebels. The …

The detention of South Sudan’s First Vice-President Riek Machar under house arrest has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war, his party said on Thursday. The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan called for restraint, saying the country stood on the brink of relapsing into widespread conflict. “This will not only …

South Korea’s impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from prison on Saturday, a day after a Seoul court cancelled his arrest to allow him to stand trial for rebellion without being detained. After walking out of a detention centre near Seoul, Yoon waved, clenched his fists and bowed deeply …