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Pakistan lifts weekslong ban on TikTok over racy content

Pakistan’s media regulatory agency on Thursday reinstated access to the Chinese video service TikTok, after a court banned it weeks ago and urged authorities… Read more

Migrants freed without court notice — sometimes no paperwork

 Overwhelmed and underprepared, U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families on the Mexican border without notices to appear in immigration court… Read more

Over 4,000 migrants, many kids, crowded into Texas facility

The Biden administration for the first time Tuesday allowed journalists inside its main border detention facility for migrant children, revealing a… Read more

Expelled from US at night, migrant families weigh next steps

In one of Mexico’s most notorious cities for organized crime, migrants are expelled from the United States throughout the night, exhausted from the… Read more

US waives FBI checks on caregivers at new migrant facilities

The Biden administration is not requiring FBI fingerprint background checks of caregivers at its rapidly expanding network of emergency sites to hold… Read more

2 tugboats speed to Egypt’s Suez Canal as shippers avoid it

 

Two additional tugboats sped Sunday to Egypt’s Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across… Read more

Maritime traffic jam grows outside blocked Suez Canal

A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels Friday outside the Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers worked frantically… Read more

In a leaky underwater rail tunnel, workers race against time

 Seven stories below street level on the edge of the Hudson River, a race against time is being waged, foot by painstaking foot.

At stake is… Read more