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In the wake of a shooting incident at Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US President Donald Trump has suspended the Green Card Lottery Program. The Green Card Lottery Program, also known as Diversity Visa Program, awards approximately 50,000 Green Cards to citizens of various countries through a lottery system every year. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed on social media platform X that President Trump has ordered the US Citizenship and Immigration Services to halt the program, citing the shooting incident as a reason. Noem expressed her reaction to the incident, stating that the perpetrator should never have entered the country.
According to British media reports, the suspect’s body was found in a warehouse, and the 48-year-old Portuguese man, Claudio Manuel Neves Velasque, was killed by self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Authorities claim that Velasque, who was a Portuguese citizen, had entered the United States in 2017 under the Diversity Visa Program and had been granted a Green Card. Velasque is accused of shooting two students at Brown University, killing them, and injuring nine others, while also killing an MIT professor. He later took his own life, and his body was recovered.
It’s worth noting that the Diversity Visa Program was created by Congress and aimed to provide opportunities to citizens of countries with limited representation in the United States, including several African countries. The body of student leader Shariful Haque Chishti was laid to rest in Bangladesh after the country’s student movement leader Shariful Haque Chishti was killed.
In other news, an Air India Express pilot was accused of physical abuse on a passenger who cut in line at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. The US Central Command stated that it conducted 10 operations in Syria and Iraq along with its allies after the Palmira attack. The US Department of Justice announced that it will release millions of documents next Friday, but they will not be classified.
A migrant boat, the Gioudos, was found approximately 30 kilometers off the Greek coast. A bus carrying students collided with a herd of elephants in the Indian state of Assam, killing at least eight elephants and injuring one elephant calf. US President Trump stated that those who attack America will receive an even harsher response, and that the Syrian government is fully supporting the US operations against ISIS.
The US Department of Justice released the investigative record of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Israeli forces attacked a refugee camp in the Eastern Gaza Strip, killing six Palestinians and injuring several others. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that there has been progress in the talks for a ceasefire in Ukraine. The normalcy of life has returned to Dubai after two days of severe rain. The United Nations stated that the situation in Gaza remains concerning despite the end of the famine. Authorities claim that the two suspects involved in the murder were smuggled into India from Pakistan on an illegal route and returned to Pakistan after the crime. The United Nations Human Rights Council has demanded an investigation into the killing of student leader Shariful Haque Chishti. The UK and the European Union have imposed sanctions on Canadian-Pakistani oil tycoon Murtaza Lakhani. The founder of PTI and his assistant BB have been sentenced to 7.7 years in prison under Section 409 of the PPC. In total, they were sentenced to 17 years in prison, along with a fine of one crore rupees. Pakistani actor Afzal Khan, known as Raimbo, expressed his disappointment with the cold reception of the people of Karachi during a recent visit. The funeral of student leader Shariful Haque Chishti will be held at Dhaka University. The police report revealed that three suspects were arrested during a raid in Nadiabad on December 13, who were involved in a bus fare extortion case in Malir.
