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Italian police arrest 24 suspected mafiosi over Naples parking protection racket

Suspects charged for drug and weapon offences as well as scheme in which drivers felt compelled to pay fees

The Guardian - UK

Nearly 60,000 Afghans Return From Pakistan In Two Weeks: IOM

Nearly 60,000 Afghans have been forced to leave Pakistan since the start of April, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday, after Islamabad ramped up a campaign to deport migrants to Afghanistan.

International Business Times

Pride to prejudice as Hungary’s constitutional clampdown targets LGBTQ+ communities

Hungary’s parliament passed a constitutional amendment permitting the government to ban public events organised by LGBTQ+ communities — a move that legal scholars and critics describe as yet another step towards authoritarianism by the populist government.

Radio France Internationale

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Australia investigating after report claims Russia seeking access to Indonesian military base

Australian defence minister says Jakarta assured him report ‘simply not true’

The Independent UK

Trump’s tech and science policy chief says Biden led with 'spirit of fear' and that today's progress lags 20th century innovation

In his first remarks since being confirmed as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Michael Kratsios said the government could do more with less, and called for partnering with the private sector and with academics in areas of national interest.

Fortune

Trump administration to freeze €1.9bn in grants to Harvard University

The move came shortly after the Ivy League institution refused to accept a sweep of demands made by the federal government.

Euronews

Texas House gives first approval to bill that would allow universities to pay student athletes

Already able to collect from private entities, athletes for the first time would be able to receive direct payments from universities under the proposal.

The Texas Tribune

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Prosecutor says Sean 'Diddy' Combs’ lawyers are looking for reasons to delay his May trial

A federal prosecutor says lawyers for music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs are looking for reasons to delay a sex trafficking trial slated to start in three weeks

The Independent UK

Police In Florida City With Venezuelan Population Strikes ICE Partnership As Deportation Fears Mount

Doral, a city in Miami-Dade County known as Doralzuela for its large Venezuelan community, is preparing to officially partner with the federal government in enforcing immigration laws

Latin Times

Judge Indira Talwani blocks Trump from ending Biden-era immigration program

Massachusetts justice moves to shield immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela from administration’s hard-line deportation measures

The Independent UK

Soldier jailed by Russia after he voluntarily surrendered to Ukraine

Ivanishin, who was reported to have denied all the charges, will serve his sentence in a maximum security facility

The Independent UK

Southern California rattled by earthquake of magnitude 5.2

Alerts rang out as residents felt large earthquake in areas around San Diego, with epicenter in rural town of Julian

The Guardian - US

Ukraine war briefing: Captive Chinese soldiers appear before the press in Kyiv

Republicans increase pressure on Trump after 35 killed in Sumy, with US president calling for ‘death and destruction to stop.’ What we know on day 1,147

The Guardian - AU

US social security administration accuses Biden of lying in speech – as it happened

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Trump officials cut billions in Harvard funds after university defies demands

Education department says $2.3bn in funds to be frozen after university rejects slew of demands as political ploy

The Independent UK

Gun safety warning as relatives charged after boy shot and killed in Australia

Man, 33, and teenager, 14, charged over minor’s death

Al Jazeera

Harvard University defies Trump’s demands, faces $2.3bn in funding cuts

The Ivy League school becomes first US university to defy Trump administration’s demands after campus protests.

The Guardian - US

Trump news at a glance: Bukele and president’s aides step up resistance to freeing wrongly deported man

El Salvador president says it is ‘preposterous’ to send Kilmar Abrego García back to US as Trump aides list various reasons to be defiant – key US politics stories from Monday 14 April at a glance

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The Independent UK

FEMA denies Washington state disaster relief from bomb cyclone, governor says

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied the state's request for emergency relief funds to help repair damage from a deadly bomb cyclone in November

The Guardian - US

Trump officials step up defiance over man wrongly deported to El Salvador

Administration advances new misrepresentations of US supreme court order in case of Kilmar Ábrego García

The Guardian - US

US college students detained in Denmark after alleged Uber driver dispute

Two students traveling on spring break were arrested and charged with assault in Copenhagen, police say

The Independent UK

5.2-magnitude quake shakes Southern California, tumbling rocks onto roads and items off shelves

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California, swaying lights and rattling cups off shelves

The Guardian - US

Harvard says it will not ‘yield’ to Trump demands over $9bn in funding cuts

In a message, the university’s president said it will not ‘surrender its independence’ amid crackdown on education

Latin Times

California Mom Crashed Car With Toddler Inside Into Canal, and Left Her There After Swimming Out: Police

A California woman drunkenly crashed her car containing her 4-year-old daughter into a canal, fleeing the vehicle by herself and leaving the child to drown in the wreckage.

The Independent UK

High school basketball player facing felony charges over repeated fouls

Gage Ketterman’s actions on the court were ‘intentional and criminally malicious in nature’, according to investigators

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