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Reuters
May 21, 2025

Trump administration fined this low-income migrant $1.8 million

Donald Trump has started to operationalize a plan to fine migrants who fail to leave the US after a final deportation order.

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Web Desk
May 21, 2025

Trump migrant detentions at Guantanamo Bay cost $100,000 per person daily, senator says

“We’re spending $100,000 a day to keep someone at Guantanamo”.

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Web Desk
Feb 09, 2025

183 Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for 3 Israeli hostages

Reports indicate that seven of the released Palestinian prisoners were hospitalised due to poor health conditions.

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Reuters
Feb 04, 2025

US military to fly migrants to Guantanamo Bay today

Trump said he wants the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to expand a migrant detention facility at the base to hold more than 30,000 migrants.

World

Web Desk
Jan 30, 2025

Trump signs executive order to send illegal migrants to Guantánamo Bay

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to set up a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

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Web Desk
Jan 30, 2025

Trump to prepare migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay

“Today I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay”.

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Reuters
Jan 07, 2025

US, Taliban in talks to swap detainees, WSJ reports

The WSJ reported that Joe Biden’s administration is seeking the return of three Americans seized by Taliban in exchange for Rahim al-Afghani.

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Web Desk
Nov 13, 2024

Trump nominates Fox News host, Pete Hegseth, as US Defense Secretary

The announcement came as Trump highlighted Hegseth’s qualities as “tough, smart and a staunch advocate for America First”.

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Reuters
May 21, 2024

US Supreme Court spurns former Guantanamo Bay detainee’s appeal

The detainee was taken to Afghanistan by his father, a senior al Qaeda member who apprenticed his son to a group of bomb makers. He opened fire when US troops came to their compound in 2002.

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Web Desk
Sep 23, 2023

9/11: Judge rules defendant unfit for trial after CIA torture

The five 9/11 defendants were variously subjected to repeated waterboarding, beatings, violent repeated searches of their rectal cavities, sleep deprivation and other abuse while at so-called CIA black sites.