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Iran is “not blockadable,” the Foreign Ministry spokesman says, rejecting the US attempt to impose a naval blockade on the country, while warning that it violates the fragile ceasefire and could trigger a proportional response from Iranian armed forces.

[...]

“Firstly, Iran is not blockadable,” the spokesman said. “Secondly, if you fail to reach a result through a diplomatic process, resorting to other means of pressure will certainly not lead to any result and you will not succeed.”

He added that the US move is a provocative act, contrary to the principles of international law, and has no legal legitimacy. “This US action could be considered a prelude to violating the ceasefire,” he warned.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran and its armed forces are carefully monitoring developments and will respond proportionally wherever necessary.”

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The survey, released on the Pew Research Center website under the title "Americans' views of China have grown somewhat more positive in recent years," draws on data from two Center surveys. One surveyed 3,507 US adults from March 23 to 29, and the other surveyed 8,512 US adults from January 20 to 26. Everyone who took part in these surveys is a member of the Center's American Trends Panel. The surveys represent the views of the full US adult population, according to the Pew Research Center.

According to the survey, 27 percent of Americans now hold a positive opinion of China, up 6 percentage points from last year and nearly doubled since 2023, reflecting a modest softening of US views toward China on multiple fronts. When asked whether China is a partner, enemy or competitor of the US, fewer Americans now describe China as an enemy than in 2025, although most still see it as a competitor. Slightly fewer respondents than last year said China is benefiting from trade at the expense of the US.

The persistent inflation in the US and the increasingly hegemonic and exploitative nature of US foreign policy have all weakened public faith in "America First" and Washington's so-called promise of peace. Against this backdrop, China's relatively steady role in the multilateral system has made its pragmatic diplomacy easier for many in the US to apprehend, Zhu Ying, a professor from the Baize Institute at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law, told the Global Times on Wednesday.

original headline: How a UK arms shipment to Israel was seized in Belgium

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How a UK arms shipment to Israel was seized in Belgium

JOHN McEVOY

An investigation has been launched after we discovered a suspicious military transfer from Britain to Israel.

Two shipments of military components bound for Israel from the UK have been seized in Belgium, it can be revealed.

This follows an alert issued to authorities in Brussels by Declassified, Belgian NGO Vredesactie, Irish news outlet The Ditch, and the Palestinian Youth Movement.

Belgium has strict laws on the transhipment of military items to Israel through its ports and airports, including a ban on overflights carrying weaponry through its airspace.

Customs officials were notified last month of a suspicious military shipment travelling from Britain to Israel through Liege airport.

The cargo was subsequently searched by a specialised engineer who found “the presence of fire control systems and spare parts for military aircraft”.

Walloon minister-president Adrien Dolimont said: “We have to see if the legislation has been respected. Here, in this case, it’s clear that it hasn’t”.

Another Belgian government spokesperson told Declassified: “No transit licence request was issued; if it had been, it would have been refused”.

The shipment

The two consignments arrived in Liege on 24 March and were scheduled for onward air transport to Tel Aviv on a Challenge Airlines service two days later, according to shipping documents seen by Declassified.

The UK arms export codes associated with the goods were ML10 and ML5, which relate to military aircraft and fire control components.

Hans Lammerant, a spokesperson for Vredesactie, said: “We also have information on 17 transits in the past. So it was clearly a regular transit from Bierset [Liege] to Israel”.

The Belgian authorities have refused to name the arms firms who exported the goods amid the opening of a criminal investigation into the matter.

However, a spokesperson for the Walloon government confirmed that the initial complaint focussed on Moog, a US aerospace firm with factories across Britain, and did not refute that some of the seized items may have belonged to that company.

Customs brokerage documents seen by Declassified indicate that some of the earlier shipments from Britain to Israel via Liege airport were sent by Moog.

A postcode associated with the company’s factory in Wolverhampton, for instance, sent items to Israel through Belgium last December with goods description “servo actuator”.

Moog manufactures actuators for the M-346, an aircraft which is used to train Israeli pilots to fly advanced fighter aircraft including the F-35 and F-16.

Actuators are machines that control the movement of other components, and can be used to help steer an aircraft.

It is unclear whether the arms producers would have been aware of the cargo carriers’ shipping routes.

A Walloon government spokesperson told Declassified: “In our view, the goods do indeed require a transit licence, which must be applied for either by UPS or by Challenge Airlines…

“We have already contacted our lawyers. We wish to… take all necessary steps to ensure that the law is upheld”.

Moog and UPS were approached for comment.

Legal concerns

After finding the shipment, Walloon minister-president Adrien Dolimont said: “It’s not always easy to identify whether or not it’s military equipment”.

For instance, cargo carriers appear to be consolidating military items with civilian goods into shared airway bills, meaning arms components can be shipped alongside games consoles and medical items, potentially making enforcement controls more challenging.

In addition to this, arms shipments seem to have been given customs codes commonly associated with civilian goods (such as “valves and similar components”) instead of ones more closely linked to military goods (like “aircraft parts”).

Declassified asked Britain’s trade department whether it has made an assessment of UK-origin military items being illegally transhipped via Belgium, and if it has discussed this with the Belgian authorities.

A spokesperson said: “We have suspended all licences for equipment for Israel that might be used in military operations in Gaza, with the exception of the special measures relating to the global F-35 programme.

“Exports of controlled equipment are subject to strict licensing requirements. It would be a criminal offence for an exporter not to have the required licences in place before exporting such items”.

Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying

A record number of student loan borrowers are in delinquency and default. Some are making the drastic decision to leave the country and abandon their loans.

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Amanda Lynn Tully, 37, moved to Prague and defaulted on her student loans. She hasn't made a payment in over seven years.Credit...Milan Bures for The New York Times

By Laura O'Connor

April 4, 2026

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Amanda Lynn Tully spent her teenage years as a ward of the State of Colorado and believed a college degree was her ticket to a better life.

So, when she graduated in 2017 with a master's degree in historic preservation from the University of Oregon, $65,000 in federal student loans and no job offers in the conservation field, she felt misled.

"I was never financially stable because I was never taught to be financially stable," Ms. Tully, 37, said.

Less than a year after graduating, Ms. Tully made a drastic decision: She moved to Prague, where she had completed an internship, and defaulted on her loans. She hasn't made a payment in over seven years.

More than 40 million borrowers are saddled with federal student debt, and a record number

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7.7 million

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have defaulted on their loans, according to recently released data from the Education Department.

For some borrowers, moving abroad and out of reach of debt collectors can be tempting. In interviews, people who made this decision cited relieving the psychological burden of student debt as a motivator, as well as having a higher quality of life, even on a lower salary, outside the United States. Many who fled abroad, including Ms. Tully, said they had no plans of ever returning.

Figures on the number of borrowers who abandon their loans in this manner are unknown, but many debtors have shared their experiences on forums like Reddit. Credit reporting agencies like Experian, aware of the issue, have advised borrowers who have moved abroad to "resist the temptation to stop making payments." Borrowers in delinquency and default will likely see their credit scores plummet, raising their borrowing costs and making it difficult for them to access credit.

Ms. Tully was on an income-based repayment plan, which allows many borrowers to have their remaining debt forgiven after 20 years of making qualifying payments. She was paying $60 per month when she defaulted. This amount, to many, may seem manageable. But for her, it remained psychologically burdensome.

"The payments weren't even paying off the interest, so it was frustrating," Ms. Tully said.

Stanley Tate, a Baltimore lawyer specializing in student debt, warns against this approach. "Federal student loans are contractual debts," he said, meaning the obligation to repay does not go away, regardless of citizenship or residency. Moreover, the foreign earned income exclusion often allows federal student loan borrowers who live abroad and earn less than $130,000 (for the 2025 tax year) to pay $0 per month under an income-driven repayment plan, he said, recommending this path over defaulting.

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But affordable payments haven't stopped borrowers on such plans from defaulting

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abroad or at home.

Michele Zampini, associate vice president of federal policy and advocacy at the Institute for College Access and Success, or TICAS, has seen borrowers in a situation similar to Ms. Tully's, with seemingly manageable payments, default because of a combination of low earnings and a sense of hopelessness.

Image

"The payments weren't even paying off the interest, so it was frustrating," Ms. Tully said.Credit...Milan Bures for The New York Times

"The psychological weight of carrying debt is a really widespread issue, even if it seems financially manageable," she said. "It's not necessarily 'I can't afford it.' It's sometimes 'It feels like I had no other choice but to go to college and I had to take out loans to go, and now I'm going to be stuck with this,' which can define people's lives in a way that feels very unfair and harmful."

In 2016, Eric Cooper graduated from a state school in Georgia with a degree in logistics. He received good grades and found a job as a logistics manager earning $52,000 a year almost immediately. But he had $80,000 of student debt, most of it consisting of parent PLUS loans through his mother.

"I did what everyone says to do

---

go to college, sign up for the loans," said Mr. Cooper, now 31. "My concern when I was 18 was that it was a lot of money, but everyone tells you that you'll get a good job and pay it back, no problem."

Mr. Cooper's payments were over $600 a month, and he was living paycheck to paycheck. He considered his options and planned to default not long after graduating, realizing his debt would take decades to pay off.

"I thought about it one day and was like, 'Am I really going to be doing this until I'm 50 or 60?'"

His primary concern was the parent PLUS loan. "If I left and didn't pay it, they would be forced to," he said of his family. After working for three years and making timely payments, he refinanced the loan into his name with a private lender. Within months, he moved to Southeast Asia to teach English and continued making minimum payments while applying for citizenship in his new country. He stopped paying when it was secured.

Mr. Cooper defaulted on his loans in 2019, changing his email and phone number, never alerting debtors to his new address.

"I think there were a few letters sent to my parents, but after the first year, I just never heard anything from anyone," he said.

For Enrique Zúñiga, debt wasn't on his mind when he began his studies. He received a full scholarship to Princeton and was grateful to avoid having student debt

---

until he received a $16,000 tax bill.

Mr. Zúñiga, 25, comes from a working-class family in Tiltil, Chile. In his final year of high school, EducationUSA, a State Department initiative to recruit international students to the United States, came to his class and handed him pamphlets for Princeton, where he applied to study chemistry and later switched to majoring in Spanish and Portuguese.

Mr. Zúñiga was living in university accommodations while dishwashing part time, with his scholarship covering both his tuition and his living expenses. But Mr. Zúñiga didn't realize that all funding exceeding his academic costs represented "nonqualified" funding, meaning that it was taxable.

Princeton states on its website that most nonacademic funding (including for international students) is taxable, but Mr. Zúñiga did not recall being told this. When he received his first tax bill from the university at the beginning of his second year of studies, he panicked.

"I walked into the financial aid office, and I told them: 'I don't have this money, so what do I do? I need to enroll in my classes,'" he recalled. Princeton offered him a private loan to cover the tax bill. Mr. Zúñiga had hoped to stay in the United States after graduating and find a good job with his Ivy League degree. With these plans in mind, he took on additional private loans to cover his tax bills until graduation.

TICAS has advocated for all scholarship funding to be nontaxable to prevent students from taking on tax-related debts. However, Ms. Zampini said she had never seen a situation like Mr. Zúñiga's, where the university provided loans to cover the taxes. The student newspaper has also published an opinion article highlighting the issue.

In July 2022, Mr. Zúñiga graduated with $16,736 in loans to Princeton. He received letters and emails demanding payment almost immediately. After months of unemployment and couch-surfing, Mr. Zúñiga found work as a legal assistant and interpreter at a legal charity in Philadelphia, but he was still unable to afford payments.

By November 2023, Mr. Zúñiga had paid back less than $1,500, and loan servicers began demanding he make more payments. He was then offered a job in Shanghai as a college admissions counselor.

"I thought to myself: 'Well, they can't enforce any judgments against my debts. I might as well go,'" he said. Before moving to China, he tried to negotiate with the loan servicers, but he said they were unwilling to budge.

Even in Shanghai, a Chinese loan recovery organization began contacting Mr. Zúñiga almost daily throughout 2024, urging him to pay his debt to Princeton.

"I was depressed," he said, describing a cycle of receiving daily phone calls and blocking numbers. Today, Mr. Zúñiga still receives emails about his debt, which has grown to $28,196.13, but he has no plans to pay it back.

Besides the emails, debt plays virtually no role in Mr. Zúñiga's life in Shanghai. Ms. Tully and Mr. Cooper also lead seemingly debt-free lives. They largely rely on local jobs and freelance work, still living comfortably despite earning far less than their American peers. Both have visited the United States without encountering issues and said they rarely thought about their debt.

Ms. Zampini said she was concerned about the narrative that defaulted borrowers living abroad were "gaming the system," or being such a small minority of borrowers that their experiences shouldn't motivate policy change.

"This is one piece of the bigger puzzle of how borrowers are managing," she said. "The fact that someone would need to make such a drastic life change driven by student debt is, itself, an indictment of a broken system."

Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying

A record number of student loan borrowers are in delinquency and default. Some are making the drastic decision to leave the country and abandon their loans.

Listen - 9:10 min

Amanda Lynn Tully, 37, moved to Prague and defaulted on her student loans. She hasn't made a payment in over seven years.Credit...Milan Bures for The New York Times

By Laura O'Connor

April 4, 2026

Leer en español

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Times on Google

Amanda Lynn Tully spent her teenage years as a ward of the State of Colorado and believed a college degree was her ticket to a better life.

So, when she graduated in 2017 with a master's degree in historic preservation from the University of Oregon, $65,000 in federal student loans and no job offers in the conservation field, she felt misled.

"I was never financially stable because I was never taught to be financially stable," Ms. Tully, 37, said.

Less than a year after graduating, Ms. Tully made a drastic decision: She moved to Prague, where she had completed an internship, and defaulted on her loans. She hasn't made a payment in over seven years.

More than 40 million borrowers are saddled with federal student debt, and a record number

---

7.7 million

---

have defaulted on their loans, according to recently released data from the Education Department.

For some borrowers, moving abroad and out of reach of debt collectors can be tempting. In interviews, people who made this decision cited relieving the psychological burden of student debt as a motivator, as well as having a higher quality of life, even on a lower salary, outside the United States. Many who fled abroad, including Ms. Tully, said they had no plans of ever returning.

Figures on the number of borrowers who abandon their loans in this manner are unknown, but many debtors have shared their experiences on forums like Reddit. Credit reporting agencies like Experian, aware of the issue, have advised borrowers who have moved abroad to "resist the temptation to stop making payments." Borrowers in delinquency and default will likely see their credit scores plummet, raising their borrowing costs and making it difficult for them to access credit.

Ms. Tully was on an income-based repayment plan, which allows many borrowers to have their remaining debt forgiven after 20 years of making qualifying payments. She was paying $60 per month when she defaulted. This amount, to many, may seem manageable. But for her, it remained psychologically burdensome.

"The payments weren't even paying off the interest, so it was frustrating," Ms. Tully said.

Stanley Tate, a Baltimore lawyer specializing in student debt, warns against this approach. "Federal student loans are contractual debts," he said, meaning the obligation to repay does not go away, regardless of citizenship or residency. Moreover, the foreign earned income exclusion often allows federal student loan borrowers who live abroad and earn less than $130,000 (for the 2025 tax year) to pay $0 per month under an income-driven repayment plan, he said, recommending this path over defaulting.

But affordable payments haven't stopped borrowers on such plans from defaulting

---

abroad or at home.

Michele Zampini, associate vice president of federal policy and advocacy at the Institute for College Access and Success, or TICAS, has seen borrowers in a situation similar to Ms. Tully's, with seemingly manageable payments, default because of a combination of low earnings and a sense of hopelessness.

Image

"The payments weren't even paying off the interest, so it was frustrating," Ms. Tully said.Credit...Milan Bures for The New York Times

"The psychological weight of carrying debt is a really widespread issue, even if it seems financially manageable," she said. "It's not necessarily 'I can't afford it.' It's sometimes 'It feels like I had no other choice but to go to college and I had to take out loans to go, and now I'm going to be stuck with this,' which can define people's lives in a way that feels very unfair and harmful."

In 2016, Eric Cooper graduated from a state school in Georgia with a degree in logistics. He received good grades and found a job as a logistics manager earning $52,000 a year almost immediately. But he had $80,000 of student debt, most of it consisting of parent PLUS loans through his mother.

"I did what everyone says to do

---

go to college, sign up for the loans," said Mr. Cooper, now 31. "My concern when I was 18 was that it was a lot of money, but everyone tells you that you'll get a good job and pay it back, no problem."

Mr. Cooper's payments were over $600 a month, and he was living paycheck to paycheck. He considered his options and planned to default not long after graduating, realizing his debt would take decades to pay off.

"I thought about it one day and was like, 'Am I really going to be doing this until I'm 50 or 60?'"

His primary concern was the parent PLUS loan. "If I left and didn't pay it, they would be forced to," he said of his family. After working for three years and making timely payments, he refinanced the loan into his name with a private lender. Within months, he moved to Southeast Asia to teach English and continued making minimum payments while applying for citizenship in his new country. He stopped paying when it was secured.

Mr. Cooper defaulted on his loans in 2019, changing his email and phone number, never alerting debtors to his new address.

"I think there were a few letters sent to my parents, but after the first year, I just never heard anything from anyone," he said.

For Enrique Zúñiga, debt wasn't on his mind when he began his studies. He received a full scholarship to Princeton and was grateful to avoid having student debt

---

until he received a $16,000 tax bill.

Mr. Zúñiga, 25, comes from a working-class family in Tiltil, Chile. In his final year of high school, EducationUSA, a State Department initiative to recruit international students to the United States, came to his class and handed him pamphlets for Princeton, where he applied to study chemistry and later switched to majoring in Spanish and Portuguese.

Mr. Zúñiga was living in university accommodations while dishwashing part time, with his scholarship covering both his tuition and his living expenses. But Mr. Zúñiga didn't realize that all funding exceeding his academic costs represented "nonqualified" funding, meaning that it was taxable.

Princeton states on its website that most nonacademic funding (including for international students) is taxable, but Mr. Zúñiga did not recall being told this. When he received his first tax bill from the university at the beginning of his second year of studies, he panicked.

"I walked into the financial aid office, and I told them: 'I don't have this money, so what do I do? I need to enroll in my classes,'" he recalled. Princeton offered him a private loan to cover the tax bill. Mr. Zúñiga had hoped to stay in the United States after graduating and find a good job with his Ivy League degree. With these plans in mind, he took on additional private loans to cover his tax bills until graduation.

TICAS has advocated for all scholarship funding to be nontaxable to prevent students from taking on tax-related debts. However, Ms. Zampini said she had never seen a situation like Mr. Zúñiga's, where the university provided loans to cover the taxes. The student newspaper has also published an opinion article highlighting the issue.

In July 2022, Mr. Zúñiga graduated with $16,736 in loans to Princeton. He received letters and emails demanding payment almost immediately. After months of unemployment and couch-surfing, Mr. Zúñiga found work as a legal assistant and interpreter at a legal charity in Philadelphia, but he was still unable to afford payments.

By November 2023, Mr. Zúñiga had paid back less than $1,500, and loan servicers began demanding he make more payments. He was then offered a job in Shanghai as a college admissions counselor.

"I thought to myself: 'Well, they can't enforce any judgments against my debts. I might as well go,'" he said. Before moving to China, he tried to negotiate with the loan servicers, but he said they were unwilling to budge.

Even in Shanghai, a Chinese loan recovery organization began contacting Mr. Zúñiga almost daily throughout 2024, urging him to pay his debt to Princeton.

"I was depressed," he said, describing a cycle of receiving daily phone calls and blocking numbers. Today, Mr. Zúñiga still receives emails about his debt, which has grown to $28,196.13, but he has no plans to pay it back.

Besides the emails, debt plays virtually no role in Mr. Zúñiga's life in Shanghai. Ms. Tully and Mr. Cooper also lead seemingly debt-free lives. They largely rely on local jobs and freelance work, still living comfortably despite earning far less than their American peers. Both have visited the United States without encountering issues and said they rarely thought about their debt.

Ms. Zampini said she was concerned about the narrative that defaulted borrowers living abroad were "gaming the system," or being such a small minority of borrowers that their experiences shouldn't motivate policy change.

"This is one piece of the bigger puzzle of how borrowers are managing," she said. "The fact that someone would need to make such a drastic life change driven by student debt is, itself, an indictment of a broken system."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/62565685

Does that mean gas prices will go down now?

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Newly declassified Israeli files reveal pre-state Zionist militias contacted Nazi Germany officials for help in establishing a Jewish state in Palestine as World War II raged.

[...]

“According to the information, there is a man who contacted the Germans. This man is known; his name is S,” he added. “S” was Avraham “Yair” Stern, leader of Lehi, the pre-state underground Zionist militia also known as the Stern Gang.

[...]

“With the outbreak of World War II … there is no better time for a war of independence than during wartime. Britain's forces are tied down … and it would be possible to overcome them,” Stern argued.

“The Jews are a party in the war and therefore cannot be neutral. Britain betrayed the Jewish people and will never allow the establishment of a Jewish state. On the other hand, Germany has no special interest in Palestine, and since the Nazis want to cleanse Europe of Jews, nothing is simpler than transferring them to their own state,” he added.

Snip:

At least two ships sailing from Iranian ports crossed the Strait of Hormuz despite a blockade threat by the US military, maritime tracking reports have indicated.

The ships were among at least four Iran-linked vessels that used the route after Washington's threat, according to maritime data provider Kpler.

The Liberia-flagged bulk carrier Christianna crossed after unloading 74,000 tons of corn at the Iranian port of Bandar Imam Khomeini, passing Iran's Larak Island in the strait around 1600 GMT on April 13, Kpler data showed.

A second ship, the Comoros-flagged tanker Elpis, was near Larak Island around 1100 GMT and cleared the strait about 1600 GMT. It was loaded with 31,000 tons of methanol, having left the Iranian port of Bushehr on March 31, Kpler data showed.

https://archive.is/qRpRa

spoiler

An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US last year after rekindling a 1960s romance is being detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centre in the state of Louisiana. The son of Marie-Thérèse, from the city of Nantes, sounded the alarm after his mother was arrested in Anniston, Alabama, earlier in April.

"They handcuffed her hands and feet like she was a dangerous criminal," he told French outlet Ouest-France.

His mother had moved to the US after marrying her long-lost love - an American man named Billy whom she had met in the 1960s, when he was a soldier stationed in the Nato base of Saint-Nazaire, and she a secretary. Billy returned to the US in 1966. He and Marie-Thérèse lost touch, got married - each in their own country - and had children.

According to Ouest-France, the two reconnected in 2010 and visited one another with their spouses. By 2022, both were widowed and started a relationship. Billy was a "charming, adorable man", Marie-Thérèse's son said, and the couple were in love "like teenagers". They married last year and Marie-Thérèse relocated to Alabama, applying for a green card that would grant her the right to remain in the US.

But Billy died suddenly in January, and his son and Marie-Thérèse reportedly entered a dispute over his inheritance. According to Ouest-France, Billy's son "threatened her, intimidated her, and even went so far as to cut off her water, internet, and electricity," her son said.

Marie-Thérèse hired a lawyer, but was arrested by ICE the day before a scheduled hearing. Neighbours alerted her children.

There is no proof that it was a report by Billy's son that landed his stepmother in an ICE detention centre. The French foreign ministry is involved and Marie-Thérèse had received a consular visit, her son told French media. He added that his mother was a "fighter" and "holding up well" but that she had heart and back problems.

"Our priority is to get her out of this detention center and repatriate her to France. Given her health, she won't last a month in such conditions of detention," he said. Since the start of Donald Trump's second term in office, ICE has taken a central role in carrying out his administration's mass deportation initiative. ICE, its budget and its mission have been significantly expanded and plays a key role in removing undocumented immigrants from the US.

Marie-Thérèse's son said his story "was like a bad American film. Every morning I wake up and tell myself none of it is true, that it was just a nightmare." The BBC has reached out to the US Department of Homeland Security for comment.

Snip:

The Republican Party will lose November's US midterm elections because of the current administration’s failed military operation against Iran, Prof. Huang Jing of Shanghai International Studies University said.

"Taking into account the current situation, the Republican Party’s defeat in the midterms is inevitable," he wrote in an article for the bulletin of the Center for American and Pacific Studies of the Shanghai Academy of Global Governance and Area Studies.

"A strong blow has been dealt on the United States’ global hegemony as the United States has lost big in this war: the war has aggravated social differences and political polarization inside the country. The US economy has suffered a great deal due to growing energy prices and President Donald Trump’s rating has dropped to 39%, the lowest level since he took office," the expert noted.

Ah yeah more money than I will make in a lifetime, ez to start a family nowadays!