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  • US border czar says he doesn’t know fate of eight men deported to South Sudan
    Freitag, 11. Juli 2025 15:47 Uhr

    Men from Mexico, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar were removed from the US and flown to the war-torn country

    Tom Homan, the US border czar, has said he does not know what happened to the eight men deported to South Sudan after the Trump administration resumed sending migrants to countries that are not their place of origin, known as third countries.

    “They’re free as far as we’re concerned. They’re free, they’re no longer in our custody, they’re in Sudan,” Homan told Politico on Friday. “Will they stay in Sudan? I don’t know.”

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  • Caster Semenya calls for athletes’ rights to be put first as court rules in her favour
    Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2025 19:01 Uhr

    ECHR rules South African runner did not have fair trial on need to lower testosterone levels to compete in women’s sport

    The South African runner Caster Semenya has called for athletes’ rights to be better protected after Europe’s top human rights court ruled that she had not been given a fair trial when she contested a policy that required her to lower her testosterone levels in order to compete in women’s sport.

    The decision, handed down on Thursday by the European court of human rights, was the latest twist in the two-time Olympic gold medallist’s extraordinary legal battle.

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  • High-risk HIV groups facing record levels of criminalisation as countries bring in draconian laws
    Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2025 11:30 Uhr

    Curbs on LGBTQ+ rights and a halt to US funding may reverse decades of progress in fight to end Aids epidemic, warns UNAids

    People at higher risk of HIV, such as gay men and people who inject drugs, are facing record levels of criminalisation worldwide, according to UNAids.

    For the first time since the joint UN programme on HIV/Aids began reporting on punitive laws a decade ago, the number of countries criminalising same-sex sexual activity and gender expression has increased.

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  • Lobbyists linked to Donald Trump paid millions by world’s poorest countries
    Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2025 07:00 Uhr

    Somalia, DR Congo and Yemen among states forced to sign deals and barter their minerals for aid or military support

    Some of the world’s poorest countries have started paying millions to lobbyists linked to Donald Trump to try to offset US cuts to foreign aid, an investigation reveals.

    Somalia, Haiti and Yemen are among 11 countries to sign significant lobbying deals with figures tied directly to the US president after he slashed US foreign humanitarian assistance.

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  • ‘One too many’: rapper’s arrest sparks protests against Togo’s ruling dynasty
    Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2025 06:00 Uhr

    At least 10 people killed and 100 young people arrested since protests began in west African country in June

    On the night last month that he and 34 other young people were arrested in the Togolese capital, Lomé, for coordinating an anti-government demonstration, Bertin Bandiangou said gendarmes beat him with ropes and slapped him. The next morning he was tortured while a commanding officer filmed proceedings.

    He was lucky to get out alive: at least 10 people have been killed by security officials since protests began in June calling for the resignation of the small west African country’s president, Faure Gnassingbé.

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  • Ana Maria Gonçalves becomes first Black woman in Brazil’s literary academy
    Freitag, 11. Juli 2025 22:08 Uhr

    Author of Um defeito de cor wins seat in 128-year-old institution long dominated by white men

    Brazil has elected its first Black woman to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, founded in 1897 and modelled on the Académie Française.

    Ana Maria Gonçalves, 54, is one of Brazil’s most acclaimed contemporary authors, and her election on Thursday is being widely celebrated by writers, activists, literary scholars and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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