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Elderly Frenchwoman held by ICE has returned to France, foreign ministry says

Elderly Frenchwoman held by ICE has returned to France, foreign ministry says

Published by Sam Flores

A Frenchwoman who moved to the United States to marry a Vietnam war veteran she first met six decades ago returned to France Friday after she was detained by US immigration authorities, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said. The 85-year-old Marie-Thérèse Ross “returned to France this morning, and we are pleased about that”, the foreign minister told reporters on a visit to the southern city of Montpellier. She had moved to Anniston, Alabama in 2025 to marry the former Air Force colonel, and was seeking a green card, which allows people to live and work permanently in the United States. Read moreFrom rekindled love story to ICE ‘nightmare’: France calls on US to release 85-year-old The couple first met some 60 years earlier when she was working as a bilingual secretary and he was a soldier stationed at a NATO base reportedly in Saint-Nazaire, western France, but according to US media both married other people. Decades later, after they were both widowed, they reconnected. According to the New York Times, Ross gave up her life in …

30 years later, I returned to Enlightenment Linux to test the Elive beta – and it’s much better

30 years later, I returned to Enlightenment Linux to test the Elive beta – and it’s much better

Published by skeptic

Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Elive has a new beta out, and it’s fantastic. Some of the announced features aren’t ready. You can test the beta now for free. There’s a lot to love about Linux, including its flexibility. No matter the distribution, you can tweak and customize it to perfectly fit your needs and aesthetic. I learned this back in the late ’90s, when I discovered the Enlightenment desktop. I spent hours upon hours on customization, and always found myself in awe at what it could do. Also: Love window snapping on Linux? You should try a tiling window manager – here’s why Although Enlightenment (also called E) doesn’t enjoy nearly the popularity it once had, it’s still available, thanks to distributions such as Elive. Elive is based on Debian, so it inherits the rock-solid reliability from the “Mother of all distributions.” Elive is also configured, out of the box, to be one very cool-looking desktop OS.  There’s a new beta of the upcoming release of …

Six Ukrainian Children to Be Returned From Russia and Reunited With Families, US Says

Six Ukrainian Children to Be Returned From Russia and Reunited With Families, US Says

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) – Six Ukrainian children ⁠will ⁠be returned from ⁠Russia to their families in Ukraine, the White ​House said on Thursday, citing efforts by first lady Melania Trump ‌to expedite their return. A ‌seventh Ukrainian child will also be returned to their ⁠family later ⁠this month, the first lady’s office said in a ​statement. Ukraine says close to 20,000 childrenhave been illegally sent to Russia and Belarus, where they are sometimes subject to military training and ​forced to fight against their own country’s troops. Melania Trump wrote ⁠to ⁠Russian President Vladimir Putin ⁠in ​August about the plight of Ukrainian children separated from their families ​by war. It ⁠was the fourth time the U.S. first lady had expedited such a return, the White House said. “Reunifying children with their loved ones in this region of the world remains one ⁠of the most important global issues today. I am encouraged ⁠that both sides remain committed to ongoing cooperation, raising the safety and well-being of children above this abhorrent war,” the statement said. A U.N. …

Israelis Had Just Returned to This Northern Town After the Last War. Now Rockets Are Flying Again

Israelis Had Just Returned to This Northern Town After the Last War. Now Rockets Are Flying Again

Published by Sam Flores

KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel (AP) — Gila Pahima returned to her hometown of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel last spring, 18 months after its population had been evacuated because of Hezbollah rocket fire. Now air raid sirens are again sounding around the clock as the boom of missiles and interceptors echoes overhead. “I feel like we’re in constant war,” she said. “You feel like you’re on a battlefield all day.” Most Israelis support the war against Iran, hopeful it can lead to meaningful change in the Middle East. But a sense of fatigue has crept in, especially in the north, as people repeatedly race back into bomb shelters or take up full-time residence inside them. Many wonder if airstrikes or ground incursions can ever bring calm. “You brought us here. You said, ‘Hezbollah is weakened,’” said another resident, Avraham Golan, addressing the Israeli government. “Where is it weakened? They are worse than what they used to be.” Residents say nights are the worst Support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu runs high in the conservative town. But …

Why Patrick Dempsey Returned to TV in ‘Memory of a Killer’ After ‘Grey’s’

Why Patrick Dempsey Returned to TV in ‘Memory of a Killer’ After ‘Grey’s’

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This interview contains spoilers from the March 16 episode of Memory of a Killer.] Patrick Dempsey has never played a character quite like with his starring role on Fox’s Memory of a Killer. More than a decade after leaving Grey’s Anatomy, the ABC medical drama where he played legendary neurosurgeon Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd for 11 seasons, Dempsey has stepped into the role of a cold-blooded contract killer who struggles to keep his double life a secret after experiencing symptoms of early onset Alzheimer’s — the same disease, ironically, that Derek spent years researching on Grey’s. “What was really appealing was the assassin side, and certainly the Alzheimer’s and the dementia side,” Dempsey tells The Hollywood Reporter of his long-awaited return to network TV. “I don’t get this type of character offered to me very often, and it came to me very quickly. I had to read it and then had to make a decision within 24 hours, because they were about to make the announcement [about the series order at the Fox Upfronts last …

Nearly 20,000 Americans Have Safely Returned Home From The Mid-East: State Dept

Nearly 20,000 Americans Have Safely Returned Home From The Mid-East: State Dept

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nearly 20,000 U.S. citizens have returned safely from the Middle East since Feb. 28, when the Iran conflict broke out, Dylan Johnson, assistant secretary at the Bureau of Global Public Affairs, said in a March 5 statement. Smoke rises from a reported Iranian strike in the industrial district of Doha, Qatar, on March 1, 2026. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images “These figures do not include the many Americans who have safely relocated to other countries or those who have departed the Middle East but are still in transit back to the United States,” Johnson said. “At the direction of Secretary [Marco] Rubio, Department of State charter flight and ground transportation operations are underway and will continue to ramp up with additional flights and ground transports taking place today.” “Through the State Department’s 24/7 Task Force, we have assisted over 10,000 Americans abroad, including offering security guidance and travel assistance. The State Department will continue to actively assist any American citizen abroad, who wishes to depart …

“We returned from hell’: Rights group raises alarm over torture in Israeli jails

“We returned from hell’: Rights group raises alarm over torture in Israeli jails

Published by Sam Flores

The Committee to Protect Journalists published a report alleging the systematic abuse of Palestinian media workers in Israeli detention centers between 2023 and 2026. Through interviews with dozens of former detainees, the organization documented harrowing accounts of torture, starvation, and sexual violence aimed at silencing the press. The findings highlight that the majority of these journalists were held under administrative detention without formal charges or access to legal counsel. Evidence such as medical records and photographs supports claims of extreme weight loss and untreated injuries resulting from physical beatings. The advocacy group is now calling for international accountability and independent investigations into these alleged violations of humanitarian law. Despite these testimonies, the Israeli military maintains that it adheres to international standards and does not intentionally target members of the media. Source link

Leqaa Kordia returned to ICE detention after lawyers say she was ‘disappeared’

Leqaa Kordia returned to ICE detention after lawyers say she was ‘disappeared’

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — After being hospitalized and unreachable by her lawyers and family for three days, Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Muslim Palestinian woman who has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly a year, was discharged and returned to detention on Monday (Feb. 9). Kordia’s lawyers said in a statement that the Department of Homeland Security denied multiple requests for answers about where she was hospitalized and her condition for over 72 hours, raising concerns about the agency’s transparency and medical care. “While we are relieved Leqaa is out of the hospital, we still have no idea what her medical condition is and what happened to her the past three days,” said Hamzah Abushaban, Kordia’s cousin, in a statement. “Now she is forced back to the nightmarish conditions of ICE detention that put her in the hospital.” Kordia’s legal team said it called dozens of hospitals near the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, over the weekend, but only learned of her location from a journalist to whom DHS had released that detail. …