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Abraham Alvarez is one of five co-conspirators in a drone attack plot targeting the UFC event at the White House A Mexican national who entered US as a child and later received protection under a programme introduced during Barack Obama's presidency has been identified by authorities as the alleged ringleader of a foiled attack plot targeting a UFC event at the White House.31-year-old Abraham Alvarez was arrested in Nebraska, where investigators say he had established a base inside a former church building that was intended to serve as a “safe zone” for himself and other members of the plot.According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alvarez entered US as a child but remained in the country after his B2 visa expired in 2001. He later received deportation relief under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, commonly known as the Dreamers programme, which was introduced by the Obama administration.Alvarez played a central role in organising a planned..

New York mayor, other leaders push to ban horse-drawn carriage rides after Indian teen Romanch Mahajan's death. The death of 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan, an Indian teen, falling from a Central Park horse carriage, strengthened calls to end the horse carriage industry as there have been eight horse-related incidents in Central Park over the past 13 months but this was the first human fatality involving a horse carriage since they were introduced in Central Park more than 150 years ago. There have already been calls to suspend horse carriages as they are a public safety hazard in crowded areas and have already been suspended in other US cities like Chicago and San Antonia.Romanch Mahajan was on a family trip celebrating his high school graduation and he jumped out of the carriage after his mother fell — and hit his head on the ground. The mother, father and the younger son escaped with minor injuries while Romanch Mahajan died. Their carriage clipped another horse-drawn vehicle and..

Cuba on Thursday unveiled nearly 200 historic free-market reforms aimed at rescuing the communist island from a severe crisis aggravated by a US oil blockade.
In a landmark speech to the National Assembly, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero detailed 176 measures aimed at rolling back the state’s role in the economy and attracting investment in everything from banking to tourism and agriculture.
These huge changes also come as the United States exerts strong pressure on Cuba aside from the oil…

A top US trade official took a veiled swipe at China on Thursday for a range of unfair trade practices, but also criticised the United States for being asleep at the wheel for far too long.
“They subsidised, they dumped, they erected regulatory barriers, they supported state-owned enterprises, they used every tool available to build their industries and capture a greater share of the American market,” said William Kimmitt, the US under secretary of commerce for international trade, without…