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Panama, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic want US to curb Haitian migration

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The presidents of Panama, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic called on the United States Wednesday to take “concrete measures” to curb the migration of Haitians across Latin America headed for the US border.

Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo said the movement of large numbers of Haitians across Central America is an “unsustainable problem.”

“This is a regional problem, the solutions must be regional and we expect the United States to participate much more effectively,” he said, after a meeting with his Costa Rican and Dominican counterparts — Carlos Alvarado and Luis Abinader, respectively — in Panama City.

The leaders insisted on the need to involve the United States and the United Nations in a push for investment in Haiti, in particular in public infrastructures that could generate jobs and spur economic development in a country plagued by poverty, violence and institutional crises.

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“We believe that the international community must carry out a series of coordinated actions in Haiti, and we are proposing a roadmap,” said Alvarado.

Last week, US Under Secretary for Civil Security and Human Rights Uzra Zeya visited Haiti and Panama, where she called for the flow of migrants to be stemmed across the Darien jungle border between Panama and Colombia, which has become a corridor for migration.

According to official Panamanian figures, more than 107,000 people crossed the Darien Gap in 2021 to reach Central America on their way to the United States.

That was almost as many as in the previous six years. Panamanian authorities estimate that 150,000 migrants take the dangerous route, where criminal groups are rampant, every year.

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Judge to rule next week on injunction against Trump’s student visa restrictions

A Boston (Massachusetts) federal judge postponed on Monday her decision on whether to maintain the injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s ban on foreign students at Harvard University.

District Judge Allison D. Burroughs announced after a hearing that she would decide next week whether to uphold or lift the temporary restraining order she issued in May against the policy.

The order will remain in effect until her ruling next week, according to local media reports.

Last month, the Trump administration barred Harvard from enrolling new foreign students and warned current international students that they must transfer to other universities or risk losing their immigration status.

Harvard, one of the most prestigious U.S. universities, filed a lawsuit arguing that its authorization to accept foreign students is “essential” for them to remain legally in the country.

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In its legal challenge, the university stated that revoking this authorization has already “disrupted countless academic programs, research labs, and courses.”

Following Harvard’s lawsuit, Judge Burroughs issued a temporary restraining order against the government’s ban, which affects about a quarter of the university’s student body.

Despite the judge’s order, Harvard reported in court documents that several students who arrived in Boston on June 5 were sent to “secondary inspection” and “were detained for many hours without being able to contact anyone.”

International

Netanyahu: Israel is ‘changing the face of the Middle East’ amid Iran strikes

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Monday that Israel is “changing the face of the Middle East” with its unprecedented attack on Iran, now in the fourth day of escalating military tensions between the two countries.

Netanyahu made these remarks during a televised press conference, just hours after an airstrike targeted the Iranian state television building in Tehran, forcing a brief interruption of its broadcast.

At the time of the attack, cameras captured a state TV presenter, who had been criticizing Israel’s offensive, hastily leaving the studio amid thick dust and falling debris from the ceiling, according to videos circulated by Iranian media.

The channel resumed live programming minutes later, while Tehran condemned the strike as a “war crime.” Netanyahu stated that Iranians are now seeing that “the regime is much weaker” than previously thought, highlighting that since Friday, Israel has systematically eliminated Iran’s military leadership. “We take them out one by one,” he said.

Killing the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “would end the conflict” between Israel and Iran, Netanyahu told ABC News.

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Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly opposed an Israeli plan to assassinate Khamenei, a senior U.S. official revealed on Sunday.

International

Israeli strike targets Iran’s state news agency amid escalating conflict

The fourth day of armed conflict between Israel and Iran has been marked by an Israeli attack on Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, which oversees a pair of television channels controlled by the Shiite theocracy and forms part of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) media apparatus.

The bombing occurred during a live broadcast of the channels. Iranian local media report that several employees present at the complex have died. In a video released by IRNA itself, presenter Sahar Emami is seen having to leave the studio as the bombing takes place.

Both Iran and Israel have issued warnings for their citizens in Tehran and Tel Aviv to evacuate certain areas. Israel ordered an immediate evacuation of Tehran’s District 3, where most foreign diplomats reside. The National Library of Iran is also located in this neighborhood. Meanwhile, Iran mirrored its systemic rival by advising residents of the ultra-Orthodox Bnei Brak district in Tel Aviv to prepare for further attacks.