内容摘要：DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran finally extinguished a fire Monday at a southern port rocked by an explosion as the death toll in the blast rose to at least 70 people killed, authorities said.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran finally extinguished a fire Monday at a southern port rocked by an explosion as the death toll in the blast rose to at least 70 people killed, authorities said.

“You meet all walks of life here,” said Ricardo Gutierrez, who was raised in Cactus. “I have Burmese friends, Cubans, Colombians, everyone.”Sometimes, when the wind is blowing, the acrid smell of the slaughterhouse signals the town’s biggest employer. The meatpacking facility with more than 3,700 workers is owned by JBS, the world’s largest beef producer.

The U.S. meatpacking industry has long relied on immigrants fleeing poverty and violence around the world. Texas - the nation’s leading cattle producer - is home to many of them. But with Trump’s immigration crackdowns, workers are facing uncertainty (AP video: Obed Lamy)The loss of immigrant labor would be a blow to the industry.“We’re going to be back in this situation of constant turnover,” said Mark Lauritsen, who runs the meatpacking division for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents thousands of Panhandle workers. “That’s assuming you have labor to replace the labor we’re losing.”

Nearly half of workers in the meatpacking industry are thought to be foreign-born. Immigrants have long found work in slaughterhouses, back to at least the late 1800s when multitudes of Europeans — Lithuanians, Sicilians, Russian Jews and others — filled Chicago’s Packingtown neighborhood.The Panhandle plants were originally dominated by Mexicans and Central Americans. They gave way to waves of people fleeing poverty and violence around the world, from

After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted a massive operation at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in 2006 and detained hundreds of workers, the Cactus slaughterhouse, now owned by JBS, increasingly hired refugees and asylum-seekers with legal permission to live and work in the U.S.

Pay starts at roughly $23 an hour. English skills aren’t needed, in part because the thunderous noise of the machines often means communication is done with hand signals.Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by the AP showed three B-2s parked Wednesday at Camp Thunder Cove in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, stealth bombers that again could be used in Yemen to devastating effect.

But bombing alone may not be enough to stop the Houthis, who experts say have proved resilient.The Houthis broadly maintain control over the capital of Sanaa and the country’s northwest. Yemen’s exiled government is part of a fractious group that for now appears unable to wrest any control back from the rebels. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which declared war on the Houthis 10 years ago, don’t appear likely to reenter the conflict as well as they pursue peace talks with the rebels.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The only time the Palestinian man wasn’t bound or blindfolded, he said, was when he was used byDressed in army fatigues with a camera fixed to his forehead, Ayman Abu Hamadan was forced into houses in