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  1. Alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding sought injunction to prevent arrest a year ago, legal documents show

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    Longtime fugitive Ryan Wedding sought a court order to prevent his arrest in Mexico’s Sinaloa state nearly a year before he was finally taken into U.S. custody last week, according to Mexican legal records obtained by CBC News. The documents suggest the Canadian, who is accused of leading a cocaine-smuggling network linked to the Sinaloa cartel, believed Mexican authorities were closing in on him in early 2025.

  2. Middle East worries about possible US strike on Iran as Trump makes threats

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    Iranian officials reached out to the wider Middle East on Wednesday over the threat of a possible U.S. military strike on the country, while the value of Iran's currency reached a new low a month since the start of protests that soon spread nationwide and sparked a bloody crackdown.

  3. County in Virginia opposes sale, conversion of Pattison-owned warehouse to ICE facility

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    A gigantic warehouse across the street from an outdoor equipment store has become a flashpoint in Virginia as the U.S. grapples with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown — and a British Columbia company has been pulled into the fray.

  4. 5-year-old detained in Minneapolis last week still in Texas detention facility with his father

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    Two U.S. Democratic Representatives visited a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father at a Texas federal detention centre Wednesday, in a case that has stirred anger over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and given fuel to Democrats and others pushing back against the actions of ICE.

  5. What we know about plans to open the Rafah border crossing this week

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    For Palestinians in Gaza, the Rafah border crossing to Egypt is their gateway to the world. But since Israel seized it in May 2024, it has been largely shut. Now Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the crossing will reopen soon, as the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan moves into its second phase.