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The US drive to find third countries to deport migrants is gaining momentum

Patricia Caro — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:43:06 GMT

The U.S. government is boosting its diplomatic efforts to find third countries to deport detained migrants whose own authorities won’t take them back. With Rwanda’s authorization, announced on Tuesday, three African countries have now agreed to accept deportees, after South Sudan and Eswatini reached similar agreements with the U.S. government. Six other countries, mainly in Latin America, have agreed to take in detainees who are not their own citizens as part of what Donald Trump calls the largest deportation in history.

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Modern cotton slaves in 18 countries work for large textile companies and many are children

Leticia García — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:01:50 GMT

“Ravi (a pseudonym) has worked since he was 10 years old. At the time of his interview, at age 45, poverty and illness had forced him to borrow money from his employer and work off his debt on a nine-acre cotton farm connected to the supply chain of Pratibha Syntex [one of the world’s largest textile manufacturers].” This is how an extensive report published in January by the NGO Transparentem opens, which was reported by the specialized media Business of Fashion. Between June 2022 and March 2023, several members of the organization investigated a total of 90 cotton farms in Madhya Pradesh, India, the second-largest producer of this raw material in the world. They then conducted up to 200 interviews with workers and farm owners. The results go beyond the horrific: almost half of the farms are exploited with forced labor (i.e. slaves), and many of them are children.

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‘Qurut’, the dried yogurt balls rich in calcium and protein that have been chewed since the times of Ghengis Khan

Óscar López-Fonseca — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:20:27 GMT

They say that, during his voyage aboard the Beagle, Charles Darwin would throw any exotic animal he came across into a cooking pot. Óscar López-Fonseca offers up a tour of the world’s kitchens through culinary experiences that, surely, the father of the theory of evolution would have ventured to taste.

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