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The biggest Colombian criminal group declared in a public statement Tuesday that they accepted President Gustavo Petro’s offer to start peace negotiations. The criminal group indicated they will cooperate with the government if everything is handled as a political process, contrary to the president’s indication. This criminal group, well-known as Clan del Golfo, has emerged [...]

Iowa lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday that would make it a crime to enter the state after being deported or denied entry into the US. The passage puts the midwestern state on track to join Texas in enforcing state immigration laws that operate independently of the federal immigration system, meaning they are not directly [...]

Indian investigation agency Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) claimed Thursday to have uncovered an organized “human trafficking” network that lured Indian nationals with high-paying jobs to Russia. That same network is accused of later training and forcing victims to fight in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The CBI, in a press release, stated that it uncovered [...]

This piece has been corrected to reflect the fact that Russia only attempted to issue Red Notices against Bill Browder eight times. An erroneous claim that Russia accounts for 33 percent of all Red Notices was also removed, along with one that stated INTERPOL’s data processing policy for refugees is new. An INTERPOL spokesperson reached [...]

Former ISIS affiliate Shamima Begum on Friday lost her appeal regarding the British government’s 2019 decision to strip her of British citizenship. Begum left the UK aged 15 to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State. The ruling from the Court of Appeal was unanimous, and as such, Begum must remain in Syria. The [...]

Albania’s Parliament approved a deal with Italy on Thursday to hold migrants rescued from international waters at Italian-run processing centers. Amnesty International previously condemned the plan to create migrant detention centers under Italian jurisdiction in Albania, calling the deal “unworkable, harmful and unlawful.” The plan is to create two centers in Albania, one at the [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, published a statement on Wednesday calling for the UK government to take “urgent action” to end all forms of violence against women and girls. The UK government invited Alsalem to visit the country after labeling violence against women and girls a “national threat” [...]

Kentucky’s Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would automatically transfer children charged with certain violent felonies to adult court. The bill passed the chamber by a vote of 25-9. Senate Bill 20 stated that children age fifteen or older charged with a “Class A, B, or C felony” will face trial as adults if [...]

The head of the UN Drug and Crime Office (UNODC) Ghada Waly, briefed the UN Security Council Thursday raising concerns about increasing gang violence in Haiti leading to increasing violence across the Caribbean. Waly told the Security Council that there has been a marked uptick in gang violence in Haiti, spurred on by arms trade [...]

Immigration is one of the hottest hot button issues going into the 2024 US presidential election. It has divided Americans, and the Republican party continues to go to extremes on the matter, with some 81% of GOP voters in the Iowa primary agreeing with former president Donald Trump’s description of immigrants as “poisoning the blood [...]