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Or at the very least, bearable. I’ve camped and hiked in every US national park, enduring dusty desert evenings and frigid Sierra snowstorms, and over the years, I’ve narrowed down the top ...

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The father of a British tourist who was taken into custody by United States immigration officials at the Canadian border over disputes regarding her living arrangements with her host family is ...

Private yachts were moored nearby, and some of the biggest celebrities were in attendance as Saudi Arabia partially opened Neom, its ambitious $500 billion mega-city in the desert. The event was ...

Rebecca Burke was trying to cross from the US into Canada when a visa mix-up saw her handcuffed and taken to a detention facility in the States - where she has now been held for 14 days.

Becky Burke, 28, was on a backpacking trip and deemed inadmissible to Canada. Burke was subsequently denied re-entry to the U.S. and detained, with her family and officials working to secure her ...

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Burke had been on a four-month backpacking trip across the U.S., during which she stayed with host families in exchange for helping out around the house. She was on her way out of the U.S. when ...