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Born in a tiny town in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca, Jessie Quiroz never imagined becoming a trailblazer.

But in June, the 17-year-old became the first transgender teen in his small hometown to formally change his gender identity after Oaxaca legalised the process for minors.

Mexico last month approved changes to existing laws that pave the way for a mandatory biometric ID card for citizens, raising concerns among digital rights activists about the collection, use, sharing and storage of personal data.

The law allows the government to collect biometric data, such as fingerprint and iris scans, and gives law enforcement agencies access to databases containing sensitive personal information.

When a child is too hot for too long, a chain reaction across the body and brain affects everything from immediate concentration to long-term cardiovascular and mental health.

It is a critical risk in a warming world where last year an estimated 171 million students had their schooling disrupted by more intense, longer and more common heatwaves.

In June, Trump deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell protests against immigration raids ramped up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

He invoked a wartime law to quickly deport immigrants alleged to be gang members without court hearings, sent hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador's CECOT prison and ended Temporary Protected Status for thousands of people.

MEXICO CITY - To supercharge a mass deportation crackdown, U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing what he calls his "Big Beautiful Bill" for lawmakers to direct $168 billion to increased immigration enforcement.

The bill projects in funding to be aimed at expanding the detention and deportation operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to the National Immigration Forum.

The United Nation's agency for labour voted in June to develop global binding standards on gig work to better protect app-based workers and ensure their access to benefits.

The move by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to establish , whose labour is largely unregulated around the world, has been described by Human Rights Watch as a "positive breakthrough."

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI's data centre in Memphis has been met with resistance by some residents worried about a lack of transparency and potential environmental harm.

Environmental groups in the area found that the data centre, used to power the Grok chatbot, runs with 35 gas turbines, which exceeds the 15 turbines for which the company submitted permits to provide 300 megawatts of electricity to the data centre.

Data centres powering artificial intelligence (AI) systems are moving into cities and towns and encountering local resistance, a report by UK-based consultancy Computer Says Maybe shows.

Communities are responding to the centres by campaigning against the extraction of water supplies, from the energy sources they use and scant accountability by governments and big tech companies, the report says.

U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline approach to immigration is changing migration patterns in the Americas and creating ripples throughout the continent, according to a report by the Mixed Migration Centre, a research group.

As the Trump administration cracks down on immigration and ramps up mass deportations, there has been a steep decline in migrants heading north to the United States, including people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and the perilous Darién Gap jungle that connects Panama to Colombia, the report said.

U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on migration has left thousands of migrants stranded in Mexico as organizations helping them have been forced to limit their operations and cut staff due to budgets slashed by the U.S. freeze on foreign aid.

Since Trump froze foreign aid funds in January, numerous local and international organisations and shelters working near the U.S.-Mexico border say they are to provide migrants, including families with children, with housing, legal, psychological and medical services.