Some migrants being held in the immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, have the right to request to be released on bond, under a federal judge’s order that says a new Trump administration policy denying bond hearings for jailed migrants is unlawful. U.S. District Judge Tiffany Cartwright’s order, granting summary judgment for a class action case impacting people detained at the Northwest ICE Processing Center, said certain immigrants “are not subject to mandatory detention” and holding them without the possibility of a bond hearing violates the Immigration and Nationality Act. The immigration judges at the Tacoma detention center have long...

An Australian man arrested in Thailand on a defamation charge that he says originated with Malaysia’s government said Thursday he is a victim of transnational repression, in which Southeast Asia countries cooperate in seizing dissidents or critics of third countries. Independent scholar and writer Murray Hunter, 66, told The Associated Press that he believes he was improperly arrested by Thai police Monday for articles he had written about Malaysia in 2024 on his online Substack newsletter, and he questioned how his case falls under Thai jurisdiction. Concerns about cross-border repression have been documented by groups such as Human Rights Watch and...

The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, stunned visitors at his palace when he openly rejected the ‘Iyaloja’ concept presented by President Bola Tinubu’s daughter and Iyaloja General, Mrs. Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, declaring it foreign to Benin tradition. Tinubu-Ojo had stormed the palace to announce the inauguration of Pastor Josephine Ivbazebule as the Iyaloja of all markets in Edo State.

🔥—-Directs NSA to commence immediate Recruitment of Personnel 👉President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the establishment of forest guards to take charge of 1,129 forests to combat terrorists and bandits, directing the NSA to oversee full implementation, starting with the recruitment of the guards. 👉This was made known on Wednesday by Sunday Dare, the special adviser to president Tinubu on media and public communication on his official X account. 👉“The President directed that the forest guards be well-trained and armed to carry out their primary duty of flushing out terrorists and other criminals hiding in the forests for illegal...