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Will ICE agents play a role in the 2026 US midterm elections?
Since returning to office for a second term, United States President Donald Trump has embarked on a campaign to root out and deport the country's undocumented immigrants. Spearheading that campaign is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a federal agency housed in the Department of Homeland Security. Under Trump, the agency has grown substantially, boasting 22,000 officers and agents as of January, a staffing increase of 120 percent.
Epstein, Iran and ‘drain the swamp’: Have Republicans shifted before vote?
United States President Donald Trump has long touted himself as a political outsider, someone who would expose the elites’ abuse of power and shift government focus from far-off conflicts to problems at home. Phrases like “drain the swamp” and “America first” have proved to be powerful rallying cries, sparking a whole cadre of “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) Republicans.
World leaders warn against security flaw found in PHP computer programming
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World leaders warn of security flaws found in PHP programming language Original
Authorities in Europe, Asia and other continents have temporarily taken some government websites offline to protect against newly discovered security vulnerabilities in a programming language used to power the vast majority of sites on the internet. On Wednesday, vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language prompted a rare public warning from the United States National Security Agency (NSA), which advised taking websites offline if they could not be updated immediately.
World leaders warn of security flaws found in PHP programming language
3 hours ago Airbnb is taking steps to limit the chores that hosts can require of guests prior to checkout, addressing a long-standing grievance among customers who often pay cleaning fees and are told they must do a list of tasks themselves. In a new policy update, Airbnb prohibits hosts from mandating that …
Why social media has become an election issue in Brazil’s presidential race Original
In the race to be Brazil’s next president, the final two candidates are appealing to voters not only at rallies but online as well. On Sunday, incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will face right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro in the final round of the election. The race is expected to be tight. But in its final days, questions have festered over whether the digital arena has been a level playing field for the two candidates.
A Bullet for the Poor, a Pardon for the Powerful
Waseem Abbas, a 15-year-old orphan sent from a Multan orphanage to learn electrical work, was run down by a car in the city’s Royal Orchard housing society on October 19. Police say the man he worked for, Tauqeer Nazir, chased him and drove over him. Tauqeer was arrested, produced before a magistrate and handed to police on physical remand. By the early hours of October 21 he was dead.
Brazilian court orders Meta to prove Lula and Bolsonaro get equal treatment Original
Brazil’s top electoral court has doubled a daily fine for the United States-based social media company Meta, saying it failed to comply with an order about how political content is shown on its platforms. On Monday, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) gave Meta 24 hours to show that it is not favouring one presidential candidate over the other in its content feeds.
Why are Latin American countries building closer ties with Israel?
When Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar announced on October 8 that Colombia would be moving its embassy to Jerusalem, he made sure to point out how important the development was for his country’s diplomatic narrative, and that it heralded warming relations with Latin American governments. “We will work hard because this is the diplomatic battle over the truth,” Saar said.
Trump ramps up third-country US deportations despite global rights outcry
Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to. Deportees board a plane during a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation via military airlift at Fort Bliss, Texas, the United States, February 7, 2025 [Sgt Walker Pino/US Department of Defense/AFP] United States immigration authorities have dramatically stepped up detentions and deportations since January 2025, when Donald Trump became president.
What Merkel’s Modest Flat Can Teach Pakistan’s Ruling Class
Every few months a message lands on Pakistani phones and makes grown men want to cry. It says that when Angela Merkel left office, Germans stepped on to their balconies and applauded for six minutes. It quotes her telling a reporter who mocked her repeated suit that she was a public servant, not a model. I wanted it to be true. It is not. Fact-checkers in Europe went looking for that nationwide ovation as early as 2021 and found nothing, and no record exists of the press conference lines.
Pakistan Is Nobody’s Client And The Makkah Pact Proves It
In August an Emirati academic who once advised his country’s president looked at Pakistan and saw only a poor, under-schooled state whose sole qualification was its nuclear arsenal, pushing itself forward to defend a far richer kingdom. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla’s post was meant as mockery. It read more like a confession of unease. The sneer has a history.
PTI’s March in Instalments Shows Why Parties Cannot Hold The Street
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf first said it would march on Islamabad on September 27. A day or two before, it moved the date to October 4. On October 4 the march did begin, at Gandi Chowk in Lakki Marwat, and the party itself described it as starting “in instalments”. Since then the convoy has been travelling through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the one province PTI governs. It reached Karak, then Kohat. On Tuesday the route changed.
Dimer-interface effects on tetramer stabilization and tryptophan dynamics in allosterically modulated TPH-II
Abstract Tryptophan hydroxylase-II (TPH-II) controls the rate-limiting step of neuronal serotonin biosynthesis and plays a central role in neuropsychiatric health. As proper tetramer formation is essential for TPH-II stability and function, targeting its quaternary structure through allosteric modulation presents a promising yet still underexplored therapeutic strategy.
American and six Ukrainians released by India after six months in jail
Matthew VanDyke, a United States citizen held in India for more than six months and accused of supporting ethnic separatist groups, has been temporarily released on bail and returned to the US. The 47-year-old arrived on Saturday morning and reunited with his family, according to a family spokesperson.
PTI dares govt to impose governor’s rule in KP
• Panjutha warns move would further deteriorate situation in province; Shahid Khattak proposes assembly resignations, street protests • KP speaker asks police chief to provide details of arrested, detained MPAs ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: Amid rising demand in the Centre for the imposition of governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, senior PTI leader Naeem Haider Panjutha has challenged the federal government to go ahead with the move, warning that it would further deteriorate the situation in the...
Iranian-American group sues Trump over war
A group of Iranian Americans have filed a lawsuit against United States President Donald Trump, asking a court to order a halt to military action against Iran that they allege is harming them and their families and is in violation of constitutional war powers checks.
Trump-Xi summit live: Trade, AI, Iran and Taiwan top US-China talks
blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Trump-Xi summit live: Trade, AI, Iran and Taiwan top US-China talks Xi’s first White House visit in more than a decade comes amid an ongoing trade dispute, with AI, Taiwan and the war in Iran to be discussed. Published On 24 Sep 202624 Sep 2026 Share US-China trade, AI, Iran and Taiwan to top agenda in Trump-Xi talks on social media share-nodes Share google Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
As major powers act unilaterally, experts say UN faces crisis in New York
As world leaders gather in New York for the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), experts say the institution is battling an existential crisis of funding, relevance and Security Council gridlock. Major conflicts appear intractable, and powers like the United States and Russia can bend the UN’s Security Council to their will; member states are looking for new mechanisms to bring accountability to the venue and for a new secretary-general to voice their concerns.
The Jet Is Not the Point – the Mindset Is
At the end of the month, a Pakistani father works out whether the school fee can be paid in full. The electricity bill arrives and the budget breaks. Petrol goes up and the motorcycle becomes a calculation. Flour gets expensive and the dinner table shrinks. From the same pockets, billions of rupees in tax money were spent on an aircraft for official use.
Long-term survival and cause-specific mortality after event-free survival at 24 months (EFS24) in mantle cell lymphoma: an international multicohort study
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Abstract The prognostic significance of event-free survival at 24 months (EFS24) in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) has not been fully defined in the era of contemporary immunochemotherapy. We analyzed 3179 patients from five cohorts (Mayo Clinic/Iowa MER, US 12-center, BC Cancer, Swedish, and Danish) diagnosed between 2002 and 2020. Two treatment eras were defined per cohort based on shifts in frontline immunochemotherapy.
By Yucai Wang, Melissa Larson, Umar Farooq, Sara Ekberg, Karin E. Smedby, Peter de Nully Brown, Carsten Niemann, Eric Zhao, Alina S. Gerrie, Jeffrey M. Switchenko, David Bond, Veronika Bachanova, Stefan K. Barta, Brian Hill, Peter Martin, Alexey V. Danilov, Reem Karmali, Nilanjan Ghosh, Timothy Fenske, Brad S. Kahl, Alexandra Albertsson-Lindblad, Ingrid Glimelius, Ahmed Ludvigsen Al-Mashhadi, Thomas Larsen, Kami J. Maddocks, Eric Mou, Jonas Paludo, Grzegorz Nowakowski, Thomas M Habermann, Matthew J. Maurer, Diego Villa, Jonathon Cohen, Tarec C. El-Galaly, Mats Jerkeman, James R. Cerhan, Mikkel R. Simonsen
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Lebanese Americans Sue U.S. Over Israel’s Abuses in Lebanon
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 2026, p. 76 Arab American Activism DOZENS OF LEBANESE Americans have filed a class action civil lawsuit against the U.S. government and several defense contractors, saying their role in Israel’s war in Lebanon is a violation of a U.S. law that bars assistance to foreign governments known to be committing human rights abuses.
France’s Macron and Canada’s Carney announce plans to build stronger ties
Canada and France will pursue cooperation on energy, defence, space and other sectors, in what their leaders say is a reflection of shared values between the two countries. The announcement was made on Sunday during a joint media conference by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron on the island archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic. The French territory is only about 25km (15.5 miles) from Newfoundland in Canada.
Kohat mosque attack: 8 terrorists killed as overnight clearance operation concludes
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police said on Saturday that an overnight clearance operation following the deadly two-pronged assault near a mosque in Kohat district’s old Police Lines had been completed, saying that a total of eight terrorists were killed. In an official handout, KP police said that eight terrorists were killed in retaliatory action by police and security forces.
US removes Venezuela from list of drug transit, production countries Original
United States President Donald Trump’s administration has decided to drop Venezuela from its list of major drug transit or production countries, and is considering removing Colombia and Bolivia.
Annexation or Integration: The Abraham Accords Reach Their Reckoning
The Abraham Accords were sold as the price Israel would pay to stop annexing the West Bank. Five years on, the annexation is being openly mapped and the Gulf’s answer is a warning. The lesson is not that recognition was offered, but that it was offered without terms anyone could enforce.
A third person has died of measles in the US, health officials say
A 40-year-old woman in the state of Pennsylvania has died of measles, becoming the third person to die from a rare outbreak of the preventable disease in the United States. “This is a heartbreaking loss for the family and an unfortunate reminder that measles can be a serious and potentially life-threatening disease,” Greg Furlong, the medical examiner for Jefferson County, about 230km (143 miles) northwest of Philadelphia, said in a statement posted online on Sunday.
Cop injured after wall collapses during KP govt project's inaugural ceremony in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: A policeman was injured on Sunday after a wall, built recently for an inaugural plaque for an upgradation project of Peshawar’s major routes, collapsed, with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi also present at the ceremony. Officials said that the police official had been deployed as part of security at the inaugural ceremony, where the KP CM was invited as well.
When the Voter Becomes Irrelevant: The Real Cost of Unaccountable Power
On the morning of 26 August, fifteen newborn babies were in the nursery of the Mother and Child Health ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad. Fourteen of them did not leave it alive. The federal health minister said the fire began with a blast in the ward’s air conditioner. One infant was carried out by a doctor. The rest of the cots were emptied by the time the fire brigade had finished.
What’s behind the vote-by-mail controversy in the US?
Voters across the United States are set to take part in midterm elections on November 3. But with two months left until polling day, a major legal battle is taking place that could throw the entire process into chaos. Acting on election fraud concerns raised by President Donald Trump, the US Postal Service (USPS) is scrambling to take steps purportedly to ensure the security of mail-in ballots. Roughly 48 million US voters cast their ballots through the mail, as of 2024.
Numerical investigation of air-water flow predictions in a chute spillway: effects of mesh refinement and subgrid-scale models
Abstract This study examines the complex three-dimensional (3D) air-water flow characteristics in a chute spillway using Ansys Fluent for numerical simulations. The Volume of Fluid method incorporating a dispersed interface and Large-Eddy Simulation was evaluated along with the Renormalization Group k-ε model for comparative analysis.
US says it will use regional body to isolate Nicaragua
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The long-term implications of Pete Hegseth’s US military purges
Earlier this week, Daniel Driscoll, the secretary of the United States Army, resigned from his post after he reportedly tried to directly appeal to US President Donald Trump about how changes in the military’s leadership were having an impact on the institution’s readiness for war. Driscoll, a law school colleague of US Vice President JD Vance, was appointed last February to his position, the highest civilian role in the Army below the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.
US says it will use regional body to isolate Nicaragua Original
The United States will use the Organization of American States (OAS) to isolate the Nicaraguan government over constitutional changes that have “gutted what was left” of democracy there. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the move in a statement on Wednesday, saying Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife and co-President Rosario Murillo were waging a “war on democracy” that “threatens our hemisphere’s stability and prosperity”.
Spatiotemporal vegetation trends and climate attribution across Pakistan’s agro-ecological zones
Abstract Pakistan encompasses the world’s most climatically and topographically diverse landscapes, spanning hyper-arid deserts, glaciated high-mountain ranges, and irrigated plains. Vegetation dynamics in such heterogeneous regions reflect complex interactions among water availability, thermal conditions, and land management.
Trump threatens to report journalist Kristen Welker to broadcast regulator
United States President Donald Trump says he will report a prominent NBC television journalist to the federal agency in charge of regulating broadcast news outlets for “rebuke or punishment”. In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump took issue with Kristen Welker’s characterisation of his endorsements of electoral candidates as having “mixed results” in the primaries leading up to November’s elections.
Tribe accuses US federal agents of ‘trespassing’ on indigenous border land
An Indigenous tribe located between the United States and Mexico has accused US federal agents and construction workers of illegally trespassing on its land to begin work on a controversial border wall in the state of Arizona. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Tohono O’odham Nation said “approximately 20 masked, armed Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents” accompanied construction workers to three locations before dawn.
New US sanctions signal Trump desperation on Iran, experts say Original
The United States announced new sanctions on Iran and a slew of global entities doing business with the country on Monday, in what officials have called an “economic D-Day” and officially dubbed “Operation Economic Outcast”, in an effort to force Tehran to negotiate an end to the war. The announcement followed repeated demands by US President Donald Trump that Iranian leaders take actions like dropping their claims over the Strait of Hormuz and return to talks to end its nuclear programme.
Reform before its time?
A fuel station worker refills a car's petrol tank. — AFP/File Pakistan’s economy is entering a critical phase of macroeconomic stabilisation. Following several years of high inflation, exchange-rate volatility, and external financing pressures, the country has begun restoring economic stability through fiscal consolidation, tight monetary policy, and reforms under the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-supported programme.
Reform before its time?
New rate list of fuel prices displayed after an increase in petroleum prices in Islamabad on January 29, 2023. — APP Pakistan’s economy is entering a critical phase of macroeconomic stabilisation. Following several years of high inflation, exchange-rate volatility, and external financing pressures, the country has begun restoring economic stability through fiscal consolidation, tight monetary policy, and reforms under the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-supported programme.
US charges woman for allegedly plotting attack on New York State Capitol Original
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States has claimed to have thwarted a planned attack to kill lawmakers at the New York State Capitol. On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced it had arrested a suspect, 35-year-old Jessica Bowie, who was accused of obtaining an explosive after pledging loyalty to ISIL (ISIS). Since 2004, the US has designated ISIL a “foreign terrorist organisation”. Bowie was charged with providing material support to such a group.
US charges woman for allegedly plotting attack on New York State Capitol
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US national debt passes record $40 trillion
Total debt for the United States has passed $40 trillion for the first time, raising concerns that the country is facing a fiscal crisis as government spending outpaces revenue. The debt stood at $19.95 trillion in January 2017, when President Donald Trump was sworn in for the first time, and has doubled since then, according to Treasury Department data shared on Wednesday.
North Korea leader’s sister denies talks with ‘hostile’ US
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North Korea leader’s sister denies talks with ‘hostile’ US
The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has denied any ongoing communication between US President Donald Trump and her brother, maintaining that the US continues to engage in a “hostile” policy towards her country.
Liberia to take 1,200 deportees from the US Original
Liberia will accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, the country’s Information Minister Jerolinmek Piah told reporters in the capital, Monrovia. The first group of 20 deportees is expected to arrive on Thursday, Piah told reporters on Tuesday. The country would be taking nationals from Africa, North and South America and the Caribbean.
US admiral praises USS Lincoln crew amid reported mental health concerns Original
Politicians voiced alarm over mental health struggles on carrier, with reports of sailors attempting to jump overboard. An F-18 launching from the USS Abraham Lincoln, July 31, 2026 [US Navy handout/AFP] US Admiral Brad Cooper has visited the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier after reports of mental health and supply issues and described the crew as “awe-inspiring”.
US-Iran MoU is set to expire: What to know Original
The Memorandum of Understanding aimed at ending fighting between the US and Iran is set to expire on Monday, with little sign that either side is willing to extend the agreement, which both sides have accused the other of violating for weeks. “We have not yet made a decision to restart negotiations with the United States,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on Telegram on Saturday. Meanwhile, mediators from Qatar and Pakistan continued to exchange messages with Iran.
Mathematical Analysis of Heat Source/Sink and Thermal Radiation Effects on MHD Hybrid Nanofluid Flow Over a Stretching Surface
Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data Availability Statement All the data and material used in this research are included in the paper. References 1 and , “Graphene–Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube-Based Nanofluids for Improved Heat Dissipation,” RSC Advances 3, no. 13 (2013): 4199–4206.
HRW says US civil rights enforcement reduced under Trump: What to know
According to a new report , the United States federal government has taken a massive step back from its role in protecting civil rights across the country. On Thursday, the nonprofit Human Rights Watch issued a 112-page analysis of the government's civil rights activities from January 2025 through the start of 2026, a period that captures the opening months of President Donald Trump's second term.
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