(2025-12-09). Detainees Missing from ICE Database after Entering Alligator Alcatraz. projectcensored.org Hundreds of detainees at Florida's new immigration detention center, nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz, have effectively vanished from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) online databases. Reporters from Democracy Now! and the Miami Herald found that of approximately 1,800 individuals detained at the remote Everglades facility in July 2025, around 800 no…
(2025-12-09). Federal Judge Restores Visa for Tufts Student Targeted Over Activism. moderndiplomacy.eu A federal judge in Boston has ordered the U.S. government to restore the immigration status of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University PhD student and pro-Palestinian activist, in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). Ozturk had been taken into custody in March by masked, plainclothes ICE agents after the Trump administration revoked her student …
(2025-12-09). The Washington Shooting and Trump's Ever-Ready Immigrant Card. moderndiplomacy.eu The recent shooting in Washington, D.C.—one that left members of the National Guard dead and wounded—could have been a moment when the entire country stopped, took a deep breath, and asked itself some painful but necessary questions. Why does this keep happening? Why do Americans keep dying in waves of gun violence that have no …
(2025-12-09). Activists renew pressure on German govt over stranded Afghans. newarab.com 
More than 250 human rights groups and other NGOs on Tuesday renewed pressure on the German government to take in hundreds of The organisations, including Amnesty International, Save the Children, Human Rights Watch and church groups, urged the government to bring the roughly 1,800 Afghans to Germany from Pakistan before the end of the year. | Those affected must be evacuated in the coming weeks to protect them from deportation back to Afghanistan…
(2025-12-09). IDF says troops fired on Syrian protesters approaching them; three reportedly wounded. haaretz.com The Syrian news agency said that the army set up a temporary checkpoint between two villages in Syria's Quneitra province, leading to protests by locals. The IDF says the soldiers fired to drive the protesters away, and when they didn't, they fired at their lower bodies…
(2025-12-09). Why Walmart Wants To See The Starbucks Barista Strike Fail. popularresistance.org Thousands of Starbucks workers across a hundred cities are nearly one month into an expanding, nationwide unfair labor practice strike in protest of the coffee giant's "historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract," according to Starbucks Workers United, the barista union that has spread to over 650 stores since its birth in Buffalo four years ago. | The strike comes after years of illegal anti-union antics by Starbucks and follows a historic $39 million settlement announced on December 1 for more than 500,000 labor violations committed by Starbucks management in New York City since 2021.
(2025-12-09). Why the West Must Let Africa to Solve its Own Problems. plusnews.ug 
Tanzania recently had presidential elections, which were won by the incumbent Samia Suluhu of CCM. After the results were announced, there were some protests in parts of Tanzania, but the government managed to calm things down and stabilize the country, even though there were outside efforts to stir up trouble. Many people in Tanzania, officials, …