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    St. Patrick’s Day parade celebrates Boston heritage in America’s most Irish big city

    By  ROBERT BUKATY and RODRIQUE NGOWI BOSTON (AP) — Throngs of green-clad, shamrock-festooned revelers filled the streets of America’s most Irish big city on Sunday for the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade. A Shriner motors by the crowd during the St. Patrick’s Day parade, Sunday, March 16, 2025, in Boston, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Green, white […]

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    Trump blocked from using wartime law for deportations

    A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump from using a 227-year-old law meant to protect the US during wartime to carry out mass deportations of Venezuelans. Trump on Saturday proclaimed immigrants belonging to the Venezuelan crime gang Tren de Aragua were “conducting irregular warfare” against the US and that he would deport them under […]

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    Iran using drones and apps to enforce women’s dress code

    Iran is using drones and intrusive digital technology to crush dissent, especially among women who refuse to obey the Islamic republic’s strict dress code, the United Nations has said. Investigators say Iranian security officials are using a strategy of “state-sponsored vigilantism” to encourage people to use specialist phone apps to report women for alleged dress […]

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    US education department plans to cut half its workforce

    The US Department of Education is planning to cut about half of its workforce, as the Trump Administration works to slash the size of the federal government. The mass layoffs will impact nearly 2,100 people who are set to be placed on leave from 21 March. Trump has long sought to eliminate the department, a […]

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    Syrian security forces accused of executing dozens of Alawites

    Syrian security forces are alleged to have executed dozens of people belonging to the Alawite minority in the coastal province of Latakia, according to a war monitoring group. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said 162 civilians have been killed in “field executions” in the region – a heartland of deposed president Bashir […]

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    Trump expands exemptions from Canada and Mexico tariffs

    US President Donald Trump has signed orders significantly expanding the goods exempted from his new tariffs on Canada and Mexico that were imposed this week. It is the second time in two days that Trump has rolled back his taxes on imports from America’s two biggest trade partners, measures that have raised uncertainty for businesses […]

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    UK ads target Iraq to deter small boat crossings

    The Home Office is launching an advertising campaign in Iraq to try to deter people from crossing the English Channel in small boats. Similar campaigns were launched in Albania and Vietnam by the previous Conservative government in 2023 and 2024. On Sunday, 592 migrants in 11 boats crossed the Channel, according to figures from the […]

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