Immigrant girl recalls poor care in crowded Texas border station

For almost two weeks, a 12-year-old migrant girl said she and her 6-year-old sister were held inside a Border Patrol station in Texas where they slept on the floor. She was one of hundreds of migrant children held this year in holding cells at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection station near El Paso that has come under fire for holding children in squalid and unsanitary conditions. In a video obtained by the Associated Press, the girl – speaking in Spanish – said children were “treated badly” and were not allowed to play or bathe.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence on Monday released a list of clerics, religious order priests and deacons it deems to have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children. The list of 50 names posted on the diocese website includes 19 priests and deacons who are still alive, ranging in age from 60 to 98, although nearly all have been removed from ministry. The list also includes 25 dead priests and six others. It posted where each of the men once worked. The diocese reviewed files dating to 1950.

AMRITSAR, India – Customs officials in northern India have seized narcotics worth $390 million that were smuggled from neighboring Pakistan, in the country’s largest seizure of illegal drugs, officials said Monday. Top customs official Dipak Kumar Gupta said 1,290 pounds of narcotics, mostly heroin, were hidden in 15 bags among 600 sacks of rock salt imported from Pakistan and were seized Saturday in Punjab state. He said two men, including the importer of the salt, have been detained and are being questioned.

MOSCOW – The Russian government said 12 people have died and another nine have gone missing in floods that swept southeastern Siberia. Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said during a Cabinet meeting Monday that a search for those missing is underway and that 153 people have been hospitalized. The floods followed torrential rains and affected 55 towns and villages in the Irkutsk region.president Vladimir Putin visited the area on Sunday after the Group of 20 leaders’ summit, ordering the military to join the rescue efforts.