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Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student in Boston detained on Tuesday by federal immigration agents in response to her pro-Palestinian activism, was on Wednesday evening being detained at the South Louisiana Ice processing center, according to the government’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detainee locator page.

The transfer of Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, appeared to violate a federal court order from Tuesday, which directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Ice to give the court 48 hours’ notice before attempting to take her out of Massachusetts.

Just as Palestinian Basel Adra began narrating the opening scenes of “No Other Land” — the Oscar-winning documentary about Masafer Yatta, his embattled home in the West Bank — six late-coming moviegoers burst through the screening room doors, filling the 25-seat space in the Coolidge Corner Theatre nearly to capacity.

An audience of young and old, singletons and couples, had turned out on a drizzly St. Patrick’s Day evening to watch this film. Some visibly demonstrated their support for Palestine with accessories such as watermelon-slice pins or keffiyehs. The film tells the story of Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages located in a region that the Israel Defense Forces have declared a training zone.

The narrative centers around Basel, a lawyer by training and activist by necessity. Upset by IDF servicemembers who demolish Palestinian homes with the goal of forcing villagers off their land, he organizes peaceful protests that receive a violent response from the military.

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Israel’s attacks on Gaza are “unjustifiable” and “intolerable”, Wes Streeting has said, as the health secretary expressed discomfort at images of bombs shattering the region that has been under threat by the Israelis “for many years”.

Streeting said he found Israel’s decision to break the Gaza ceasefire “soul-destroying”, and insisted the attacks do not “serve in Israel’s self-interest and cannot be justified as self-defence”, adding: “It has got to stop.”

On Monday, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 65 people in Gaza, including women, children and two journalists, nearly a week after it broke its ceasefire deal with Hamas.

U.S. intelligence agencies sounded the alarm on Ukraine’s dwindling battlefield prospects against Russia in an annual report released Tuesday.

The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community — released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in conjunction with top officials’ testimony at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing — warns that Moscow has “seized the upper hand” in the war over the past year and “is on a path to accrue greater leverage” to force favorable terms in its negotiations with Ukraine and the West.

Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede criticized an upcoming trip to the Danish territory by Usha Vance, wife of Vice President JD Vance, and other senior U.S. officials as a "provocation" and "highly aggressive."

The second lady was expected to travel to Greenland on Thursday alongside Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump's national security adviser, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The White House said she would watch the island's national dogsled race and "celebrate Greenlandic culture and unity."

United States and Russian negotiators meeting in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, have concluded a 12-hour round of talks aimed at securing a partial ceasefire in Ukraine.

The Russian state news agency TASS reported that Monday’s negotiations had drawn to a close after “more than 12 hours of consultations” with a “joint statement” on results expected on Tuesday.

After the talks with Russia, US officials are to hold more talks with Ukrainian negotiators, according to a senior Ukrainian government source cited by the news agency Reuters.

US President Donald Trump said Monday that he expected to seal a US-Ukraine revenue-sharing deal on critical Ukrainian minerals soon and his administration was talking to Kyiv about the prospect of US firms owning Ukrainian power plants.

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