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US immigration officers instructed to halt arrests of non-criminal immigrants: report

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have been instructed to stop arresting immigrants who do not have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, according to agency sources. Under the reported directive, federal immigration agents may arrest immigrants with criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, while those with final deportation orders but no criminal convictions or charges would not be arrested, The Daily Wire reported. The reported change would also end so-called “collateral arrests,” under which officers may detain others without legal status encountered while pursuing a criminal target, according to sources. Read: US judge blocks Trump limits on how long foreign students, journalists can stay The reported directive comes amid increased scrutiny of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies and ICE operations. Several ICE officers expressed frustration about the reported change, with one...
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Italy sees mass protests, transport strikes over Gaza conflict

Tens of thousands of people protested on Monday across Italy as part of a day of action to "denounce the genocide in Gaza", which included transport strikes and port blockades. The demonstrations came the same day as France and other countries prepared to recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, following recognition by the UK, Australia and Canada on Sunday. Italy's hard-right government under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said it will not recognise a Palestinian state for now. Read More: Major US allies break ranks on Palestine In Rome, some 20,0000 people gathered in front of the main Termini train station, according to local police, many of them students, shouting "Free Palestine!" and holding up Palestinian flags. Some had marched via the Colosseum, those at the front holding up a giant banner saying "Against Genocide. Let's block everything." At Termini station, Michelangelo, 17, told AFP he was there to support "a population that is being exterminated". Francesca Tecchia, 18, was protesting "for the first time", because "what is happening (in Gaza) is too important", she said. "Italy must come to a standstill today," said Federica Casino, a 52-year-old worker protesting with the students for Gaza's "dead children and destroyed hospitals". "Italy talks but does nothing," she said. In the northern city of Milan, where organisers said 50,000 people turned out, protesters burned a US flag, an AFP reporter saw. Protesters clashed with riot police at Milan’s Centrale station during a USB-led national strike urging Italy to cut ties with Israel. AFP In Bologna, more than 10,000 took to the streets, according to local police, while protesters also took place in Turin, Florence, Naples and Sicily. Also Read: France, Saudi host summit to back two-state plan as Israel, US boycott In Genoa and Livorno, dock workers blockaded port entrances, according to Italian media. Strike action disrupted local buses and the metro service in Rome, while national train operators also warned of delays and cancellations. Meloni's government, which is ideologically close to US President Donald Trump, has condemned Israel's relentless assault on the besieged Palestinian territory. It says it had not sold any Italian weapons to Israel since the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas inside Israel. But it has said it will not for now recognise a Palestinian state and has also expressed reluctance about implementing the European Union's proposed trade sanctions on Israel. According to a recent survey by polling company Only Numbers, published by La Stampa newspaper, almost 64 percent of Italians consider the humanitarian situation in Gaza "very serious" and almost 41 percent want Italy to recognise a Palestinian state.

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