ICE arrests 130+ illegal immigrant sex offenders in broad national operation

Post Content Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Thursday that agents have arrested over 130 illegal immigrant sex offenders as part of a national operation – promising to continue in its efforts to remove illegal aliens convicted of such crimes. ICE said that its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) had apprehended 138 “unlawfully present noncitizens” […]

CBP Agents Shot, One Killed Near Puerto Rico

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was killed and two other agents wounded in a gunfight with two smugglers near Puerto Rico on Tuesday, according to a CBP statement.

Sudanese tribal clashes in Darfur leaves 48 dead

Tribal clashes in Sudan’s restive Darfur region killed at least 48 people last week, a refugee official said Wednesday, the latest round of inter-communal violence to hit Sudan’s neglected peripheries. The fighting is the first reported large-scale tribal violence in Darfur since August — even as eruptions of tribal clashes over the past months have […]

More than 600 clergy sex abuse cases on file at Vatican since 2000

Italy’s Catholic bishops provided their first accounting of clergy sexual abuse and revealed Thursday that more than 600 cases from Italy were on file at the Vatican since 2000. The report of the Italian bishops’ conference, which only covered complaints that local Italian church authorities had received over the last two years, did not mention […]