Migrants held at a federal immigration jail in downtown Miami were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and forced to kneel to eat food off chairs, “like dogs”, according to a damning new report published on Monday. The report, compiled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South, details alleged abuses across three overcrowded Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centres…

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the ongoing war in Gaza as an act of “barbarity”, condemning the “indiscriminate use of force” amid mounting civilian casualties and worsening humanitarian conditions. The pontiff’s comments followed reports from Gaza’s civil defence agency that at least 93 Palestinians were killed on Sunday while queuing for food aid, mostly in northern parts of the besieged enclave. According to the agency, 80 of the victims were…

An 82 year old man from Pennsylvania has been discovered in a Guatemalan hospital after being secretly deported by U.S. immigration authorities, weeks after he attended an appointment to replace his lost green card. Luis Leon, a long-time resident of Allentown, was granted political asylum in the United States in 1987 after surviving torture under the brutal dictatorship of Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet. According to his family, Leon vanished without…

Prince Al-Waleed bin Khaled bin Talal Al Saud, the Saudi royal famously known as the ‘Sleeping Prince’, has passed away at the age of 36, nearly two decades after falling into a coma following a devastating car accident in London. The prince, who was just 15 at the time of the accident in 2005 while studying at a military school, suffered a brain haemorrhage and was subsequently transferred to King…

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos saw their combined net worth swell by $7.8 billion (£6 billion) on Friday, as shares in Tesla and Amazon rallied, lifting both billionaires higher on the global rich list. Musk, chief executive of Tesla and founder of ventures including SpaceX and the artificial intelligence start-up xAI, gained $5.8 billion, bringing his total fortune to $413.2 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaire tracker. The 1.41% jump…

At least 30 people were injured, three of them critically, after a vehicle drove into a crowd of nightclub-goers on Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, in the early hours of Saturday morning. The crowd, made up mostly of women, had been queuing outside a popular nightclub when the vehicle, a Nissan Versa, struck them, also crashing into a taco truck and a nearby valet stand, according to the Los Angeles…

No fewer than 32 Palestinians were killed and more than 100 injured on Saturday morning when Israeli troops opened fire on crowds gathered near two humanitarian aid hubs in southern Gaza, according to witnesses and hospital officials. The incident, which occurred in the Teina area east of Khan Younis and near another site north-west of Rafah, has been described by those on the ground as “a massacre”. Witnesses allege that…

India has successfully conducted test launches of two nuclear-capable ballistic missiles—Prithvi-II and Agni-I—in a strategic demonstration of military strength following its recent armed conflict with neighbouring Pakistan. The tests were carried out on Thursday, July 17, from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, located on India’s southeastern coast. The Ministry of Defence confirmed that both missiles, launched under the supervision of the Strategic Forces Command, met all technical and operational…

President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has been diagnosed with a common vein condition. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt disclosed this on Thursday after Trump was evaluated by his doctor over swelling in his lower legs. Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI) is a condition where blood doesn’t flow efficiently from the legs back to the heart, causing symptoms like varicose veins, leg ulcers, and swelling. It is characterised by prolonged…

Brazilian lawmakers have passed a bill that significantly weakens the country’s environmental protections, in what activists are calling the most devastating blow to Brazil’s environmental legislation in over four decades. Dubbed the “devastation bill”, the legislation was approved in the lower house of Congress during the early hours of Thursday, passing by 267 votes to 116. The bill, which had already been approved by the Senate in May, now awaits…

The blaze erupted late on Wednesday evening at the newly opened Hyper Mall, quickly engulfing the five-storey building that housed a supermarket and a restaurant. Civil defence officials reported that most of the victims died from smoke inhalation in the building’s bathrooms, with 14 of the bodies so severely burned they have yet to be identified. Heartbroken relatives gathered outside hospitals and the charred remains of the mall throughout the…

An Israeli strike has hit the Holy Family Church, the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing two people and injuring several others, including the parish priest, who was known for his close relationship with the late Pope Francis. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem confirmed in a statement: “Two persons were killed as a result of an apparent strike by the Israeli army that hit the Holy Family compound this morning.”…