Legal groups sued the US government Friday to try to stop the expulsion of children detained in hotel rooms by the Trump administration under an emergency declaration citing the coronavirus. The owners of the Hampton Inn & Suites in McAllen, Texas, said Friday night that they ended any reservations on rooms used to detain minors. […]

The United States (US) announced Friday it will not take in any new foreign students seeking online-only study, after rescinding a hotly contested order to “expel those already here and preparing for that” because of the pandemic. The policy change was announced in a statement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. President Donald Trump has made […]

The Civil Aviation Organisation of Iran announced on Friday it will lodge a complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) over “harassment” of its passenger plane by two U.S. fighter jets over the Syrian airspace on Thursday. In a statement, the Civil Aviation Organisation of Iran urged the ICAO to immediately address the issue, […]

Coronavirus has infected some 13,000 South African health workers and killed more than 100 of them, the health ministry said Thursday, as the virus takes a toll on frontline caregivers. South Africa holds the highest number of infections on the continent with 408,052 recorded cases and 5,940 deaths so far. It is also the world’s […]

Serbian police have arrested a group suspected of an online scam worth more than $70 million following a joint investigation with the FBI, the interior ministry announced Friday. Eleven people from Australia, Montenegro, the Philippines and Serbia were detained on charges that they “created, promoted and organised” 16 fake investment platforms. They are suspected of […]