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Editor’s Note: Jonathan Todres is Catherine C. Henson professor of law at Georgia State University. He is the author of numerous publications on children’s rights and human trafficking, and he regularly advises organizations working on these issues. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. CNN  —  In an era of often-deep political divide, human trafficking should be one issue where there is consensus. Indeed, the vast majority of us recognize that human trafficking and forced labor are human rights violations that must not be tolerated. Yet millions of children today are exploited in forced labor.…

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia CNN  —  The United States “will immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine,” the US and Ukraine said Tuesday in a joint statement about their meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Kyiv also “expressed readiness to accept the US proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation,” the statement said. “The United States will communicate to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace,” it said. The…

CNN  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened a sharp escalation in the budding trade war with Canada in retaliation for Ontario’s export surcharge on US electricity. Stocks immediately tumbled after Trump’s Truth Social post announcing his latest tariff threat, and by mid-afternoon the Dow was down 1.6%, the S&P 500 was 1.2% lower and the Nasdaq Composite had lost 0.8%. Trump said he would respond in kind to Ontario’s 25% surcharge on electricity to New York, Minnesota and Michigan with a 25% tariff on Canadian electricity. That could increase costs even more for Americans, particularly in northern states that…

CNN  —  Authorities in the Dominican Republic are searching on land, by air and in the water for a University of Pittsburgh student who disappeared last week on spring break in Punta Cana. Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old United States resident, was last seen on surveillance camera with seven other people entering the beach at the Riu República Hotel in Punta Cana after 4:15 a.m. Thursday, the Dominican National Police said in a statement. Before heading to the beach, surveillance footage shows the group of Americans – Konanki, five other women and two men – had been drinking in the hotel’s…

The opening day of NFL free agency began with some shocking moves and key additions. For the San Francisco 49ers, the biggest shocker was the news that the organization had informed nine-time Pro Bowl fullback Kyle Juszczyk of their intentions to release him before the start of the league year on Wednesday.  San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk, #44, talks with running back Christian McCaffrey, #23, on the sideline during the second quarter against the New York Jets at Levi’s Stadium on Sept. 9, 2024. (David Gonzales-Imagn Images)ESPN first reported the news on Monday. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMJuszczyk, 33, has…

CNN  —  Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to eyewitnesses and video, providing a gruesome picture of a crackdown against remnants of the former Assad regime that spiraled into communal killings. Syria has seen the worst outbreak of violence since the ousting of former President Bashar al-Assad late last year, after armed men descended on Alawite heartlands on Thursday in what Syrian authorities said was an attempt to put down an insurgency by rebels still loyal to the former government. A UK-based independent monitoring group, the Syrian Network…

Quetta, Pakistan CNN  —  A “complex operation” is ongoing in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, according to a security source, after a train carrying hundreds of passengers was hijacked by separatist militants, according to government and railway officials. The train, known as the Jaffer Express, was stopped by the militants as it reached a tunnel on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The train was on its way from Quetta in Balochistan, Pakistan’s westernmost province, to the northwestern city of Peshawar. “Armed individuals stopped Jaffer Express inside Tunnel No. 8 (in Bolan),” Muhammad Kashif, Quetta Railways’ controller told CNN. The train, which…

CNN  —  A federal judge on Monday rejected a request from the Trump administration to cancel an evidentiary hearing set for later this week in a major case concerning the government’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce, refusing to lift his order that the acting head of the Office of Personnel Management testify. Last month, US District Judge William Alsup ordered acting OPM director Charles Ezell to appear at the hearing this Thursday so he can be cross-examined by attorneys representing labor unions and others that are challenging the administration’s decision to fire thousands of probationary federal employees. But on…

Beijing CNN  —  China’s leaders have spent the past week unveiling their plan to steer the world’s second-largest economy through looming challenges by transforming the country into a technological powerhouse and ramping up spending to hit an ambitious growth target. The thousands of delegates who gathered in Beijing for the week-long meetings of China’s rubber-stamp legislature voted almost unanimously Tuesday to approve the government work report and the budget. The stakes are high for China’s government, and Xi Jinping, the country’s most powerful leader in decades, to get the initiatives right. Beijing needs to fix a raft of domestic issues,…

Jerusalem CNN  —  Mahmoud Muna looked on in disbelief as plain-clothes Israeli police officers rifled the shelves in his decades-old bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem. The officers were looking for books they deemed “inciteful,” and in the process detained him and his nephew, Ahmad, for 48 hours. The February raid on two branches of the Educational Bookshop – a well-known bookstore popular among Palestinians, Israelis and foreigners – was a widening of what critics describe as a crackdown on free speech in Israel that has intensified since Hamas’ October 7 attack. Witnesses to the raid said police were looking for…