The detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, age five, marks the turbocharging of a policy discontinued five years ago

This week, ICE’s detention of a five-year-old boy wearing a Spider Man backpack in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights quickly became a defining image of the Trump administration’s hardline immigration enforcement. Furious critics, including many local politicians, seized on Liam Ramos’s ordeal as glaring evidence that Trump’s mass deportation campaign has little to do with crime and a lot to do with terrorizing children and their families.

A homeland security spokesperson said ICE officers took the boy into custody only after his father fled during an attempted arrest. The superintendent of the school district in Columbia Heights said another adult living in the home was outside during the encounter and had pleaded to take care of Liam so the boy could avoid detention, but was denied.

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Updates from day seven at Melbourne Park
Pliskova v Keys, then Spizzirri v Sinner on Rod Laver Arena
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Pliskova 0-1 Keys (9)* The 186cm Czech intersperses a trademark ace between a series of unforced errors to hand Keys a couple of break points. She saves the first but Keys secures the early advantage with a lovely in-to-out forehand winner. The champion has started strongly, striking the ball cleanly from the baseline. Pliskova, by contrast, looks a bit flat-footed and lacking timing.

The players are out on RLA. Key's’s neon green Nike outfit is irridescent in the bright sunshine. Pliskova is serving in orange Adidas.

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Police reveal Julian Ingram reported to local officers as part of his bail conditions hours before the shootings

• Warning: This article contains references to Indigenous Australians who have died

Police have widened the search for a gunman suspected of killing his pregnant former partner and two others in remote NSW, as police explore whether the Lake Cargelligo local may be receiving help to evade authorities.

Julian Ingram, 37, was last seen driving out of Lake Cargelligo, in the NSW central west, on Thursday. Police suspect he is armed with at least one firearm, but confirmed he has never held a firearms licence.

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The departure of pandas will leave legions of Japanese admirers bereft, but it is also symptomatic of a dramatic deterioration in China-Japan relations

The panda house at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo is not due to open for several hours, but visitors are already milling around its entrance, pausing to pose for photographs in front of murals of the facility’s most beloved residents. A short walk away the gift shop is doing a roaring trade in themed souvenirs – from cuddly toys and stationery to T-shirts and biscuits.

The visitors are here to say goodbye to Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei. Early next week, the twin pandas, born at the zoo in 2021 but technically on loan from China, will be flown out of Tokyo’s Narita airport to China, where they will undergo quarantine and be reunited with their sister, Xiang Xiang, at a conservation and research centre in Sichuan province.

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WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - De Amerikaanse regering heeft kritiek op uitspraken van president Donald Trump over het optreden van NAVO-landen in Afghanistan van de hand gewezen. Trump zei rond zijn bezoek aan het World Economic Forum in Davos dat militairen van NAVO-bondgenoten in Afghanistan de frontlinie zouden hebben gemeden.

Dat leidde tot felle kritiek uit onder meer het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Nederland. De Britse premier Keir Starmer noemde Trumps opmerkingen "beledigend en ronduit afschuwelijk". Hij benadrukte dat 457 Britse militairen in Afghanistan zijn gesneuveld.

De Nederlandse demissionaire minister David van Weel (Buitenlandse Zaken) stelde dat Trump niet de waarheid sprak. Volgens hem waren Trumps uitspraken "niet respectvol" tegenover de NAVO-bondgenoten die in Afghanistan actief waren, zoals Nederland.

Volgens het Witte Huis had Trump echter gelijk. Een woordvoerder laat aan persbureau AFP weten dat "de VS meer hebben betekend voor de NAVO dan alle andere bondgenoten bij elkaar".

SACRAMENTO (ANP/RTR) - Californië sluit zich aan bij een internationaal netwerk van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO) dat wordt ingezet bij uitbraken van infectieziekten. Het is de eerste Amerikaanse staat die dat doet, nadat de Verenigde Staten zich donderdag officieel terugtrokken uit de VN-organisatie WHO.

Het netwerk bestaat uit meer dan 360 gespecialiseerde instellingen. Zij leveren personeel en middelen bij uitbraken van infectieziekten. Het netwerk werd onder meer ingezet tijdens de bestrijding van de coronapandemie.

De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump kondigde op de eerste dag van zijn tweede termijn als president al aan zijn land terug te trekken uit de WHO. Het duurde echter nog bijna een jaar voordat dit besluit definitief werd.

Gouverneur Gavin Newsom van Californië noemde het vertrek van de VS een roekeloze beslissing. Zijn staat wil internationaal blijven samenwerken en zegt voorop te willen blijven lopen in de voorbereiding op toekomstige gezondheidscrises.

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But ex-CISA boss and new RSAC CEO Jen Easterly will be there

exclusive  The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency won't attend the annual RSA Conference in March, an agency spokesperson confirmed to The Register.…

Jeffrey Snover, the driving force behind PowerShell, has retired after a career that reshaped Windows administration. The Register reports: Snover's retirement comes after a brief sojourn at Google as a Distinguished Engineer, following a lengthy stint at Microsoft, during which he pulled the company back from imposing a graphical user interface (GUI) on administrators who really just wanted a command line from which to run their scripts. Snover joined Microsoft as the 20th century drew to a close. The company was all about its Windows operating system and user interface in those days -- great for end users, but not so good for administrators managing fleets of servers. Snover correctly predicted a shift to server datacenters, which would require automated management. A powerful shell... a PowerShell, if you will.

[...] Over the years, Snover has dropped the occasional pearl of wisdom or shared memories from his time getting PowerShell off the ground. A recent favorite concerns the naming of Cmdlets and their original name in Monad: Function Units, or FUs. Snover wrote: "This abbreviation reflected the Unix smart-ass culture I was embracing at the time. Plus I was developing this in a hostile environment, and my sense of diplomacy was not yet fully operational." Snover doubtless has many more war stories to share. In the meantime, however, we wish him well. Many admins owe Snover thanks for persuading Microsoft that its GUI obsession did not translate to the datacenter, and for lengthy careers in gluing enterprise systems together with some scripted automation.

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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️

Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 4.7°C (Bewolkt)
Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 113°

Luchtkwaliteit:

• AQI: 56 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 25.1 μg/m³
• PM10: 27.5 μg/m³

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zaterdag 24 januari: Min 2.0°, Max 8.6° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ← 111°
• zondag 25 januari: Min -0.2°, Max 4.6° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, Windsnelheid: 16.9 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: ← 89°
• maandag 26 januari: Min -0.1°, Max 2.8° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 27°
• dinsdag 27 januari: Min -0.1°, Max 3.5° (Lichte sneeuw) ❄️, Neerslag 2.7, Kans op neerslag 27%, Windsnelheid: 19.2 km/u (5.3 m/s), richting: ← 102°
• woensdag 28 januari: Min 2.3°, Max 7.0° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6, Kans op neerslag 19%, Windsnelheid: 11.7 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↖ 126°
• donderdag 29 januari: Min 2.4°, Max 5.7° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.5, Kans op neerslag 14%, Windsnelheid: 17.8 km/u (4.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 121°
• vrijdag 30 januari: Min 3.6°, Max 7.9° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 3.6, Kans op neerslag 36%, Windsnelheid: 20.1 km/u (5.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 191°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 4.4° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↖ 116°
• 03:00: 4.4° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↖ 128°
• 04:00: 4.2° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↖ 123°
• 05:00: 4.0° (Gedeeltelijk bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↖ 122°
• 06:00: 3.7° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↖ 122°
• 07:00: 3.8° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↖ 126°
• 08:00: 4.2° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↖ 126°
• 09:00: 3.2° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ← 103°
• 10:00: 3.0° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ← 96°
• 11:00: 4.1° (Zonnig) ☀️, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ← 111°
• 12:00: 5.7° (Zonnig) ☀️, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↖ 125°
• 13:00: 7.0° (Zonnig) ☀️, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↖ 130°

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Sobetsu, Usu District, Hokkaido, Japan

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View of Sobetsu town from Mount Usu observation deck.
有珠山の展望台から見た壮瞥町の景色。

Sobetsu, Usu District, Hokkaido, Japan

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In de rij voor koffie, op de universiteit in Oxford. Ik voeg mij achter een klasgenoot en fluister hem toe dat ik de Britse queuing discipline waardeer en dat ikgraag meedoe.