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Crowds at Indian airports eased on Saturday but hundreds of passengers were still gathering outside Bengaluru and Mumbai airports as 385 IndiGo flights were canceled, in the fifth day of a crisis that has hit the country's biggest airline.

Air travel across India has been in turmoil this week after IndiGo canceled thousands of flights, prompting the government to announce special relief for the carrier and operate some trains to help clear the backlog.

It is the biggest crisis ever for the 20-year-old airline, which long prided itself on on-time performance and lured passengers with low-cost fares.

IndiGo has admitted it failed to plan properly ahead of a November 1 deadline to implement stricter rules for pilots around night flying and weekly rest, which ultimately led to problems around roster planning this week.

On Friday, more than 1,000 IndiGo flights were canceled. The Delhi airport in a post on X said flight operations are steadily resuming, but some IndiGo flights continue to be affected.

Airport sources told Reuters 124 IndiGo flights in Bengaluru have been canceled on Saturday, 109 in Mumbai, 86 in New Delhi and 66 in Hyderabad.

India's government has made special relaxations to the rules for the airline, and IndiGo has said it could return to normalcy between December 10-15.

Still, hundreds of passengers gathered outside Bengaluru and Mumbai airports on Saturday, with some clueless about their cancellations, according to Reuters photographers present at the scene.

Satish Konde had to catch a connecting flight to go to the city of Nagpur from Mumbai, and was checked in, but was told later it was canceled.

"I am waiting for my luggage to be returned," he told Reuters at the airport.

Other major Indian airlines, including Air India and Akasa, have not had to cancel flights due to the new rules.

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U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced that nearly allillegal immigrantsdetained will be charged a $5,000 "apprehension fee."

In a post on X on Thursday, Banks said illegal immigrants ages 14 and older who entered the country without inspection will face a fee, a provision included in the "big, beautiful bill," which PresidentDonald Trumpsigned into law in July.

"This message applies to all illegal aliens — regardless of where they entered, how long they've been in the U.S., their current location, or any ongoing immigration proceedings," Banks wrote.

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The warning came after a lawsuit was filed Thursday against the federal government on behalf of 21,500 immigrants facing daily penalties of $998, reaching up to $1.8 million each for staying in the U.S. illegally.

Their lawyers argued they were attempting to comply with federal immigration laws.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in October thatmigrants paroled in the U.S.would also face a $1,000 fee "to institute accountability and prevent rampant fraud of the parole system."

DHS this week launched a "holiday deal of a lifetime," offering illegal immigrants a "Cyber Monday" incentive to self-deport.

All illegal immigrants in the country could receive a free flight home and a $1,000 bonus forvoluntarily leaving the country. The average cost to arrest, detain and deport someone is $17,000, according to DHS.

People in the U.S. illegally may also qualify for forgiveness of any civil fines or penalties incurred for failing to depart, DHS said, allowing the possibility for them to return legally.

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The Trump administration previously announced it closed out fiscal year 2025 with 237,565Border Patrol apprehensions, the fewest since 1970.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital in October that the administration was "on pace to shatter historic records" by tallying 600,000 deportations by the end of Trump's first year back in office.

More than two million illegal immigrants have left the U.S. this year, she said, including 1.6 million who self-deported, 515,000 deportations and another 485,000 were arrested.

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Trump deployed additional personnel to the southern border after taking office and ended "catch-and-release," the practice of releasing illegal immigrants as they wait for hearings.

Fox News Digital's Peter Pinedo, Bonny Chu and Landon Mion contributed to this report.

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CAIRO (AP) — A drone attack by the Sudanese paramilitary forces hit a kindergarten in south-central Sudan, killing 50 people, including 33 children, a doctors' group said.

Paramedics on the scene in the town of Kalogi in South Kordofan state were targeted in "a second unexpected attack," the group said in a statement late Friday.

The death toll is expected to be higher, but communication blackouts in the area have made it difficult to report casualties.

Thursday's attack is the latest in the fighting between the paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, also known as the RSF, and the Sudanese military, who have been at war for over two years. It is now concentrating in the oil-rich Kordofan states.

"Killing children in their school is a horrific violation of children's rights," said UNICEF Representative for Sudan Sheldon Yett in a statement Friday.

"Children should never pay the price of conflict," said Yett.

He said UNICEF urges all parties "to stop these attacks immediately and allow safe, unhindered access for humanitarian assistance to reach those in desperate need."

Hundreds of civilians were killed throughout the Kordofan states in the last few weeks as intensified fighting shifted from Darfur after the RSF took over the besieged city of el-Fasher.

Sudanese military aerial strikes on Sunday killed at least 48 people, mostly civilians, in Kauda, South Kordofan.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned thatKordofan could face new atrocitieslike those in el-Fasher.

RSF's violent takeover of el-Fasher was marked with executions of civilians, rapes and sexual assaults, and other atrocities. Thousands escaped and thousands more are feared killed or trapped in the city.

The RSF and the Sudanese military have been fighting for power over Sudan since 2023. More than 40,000 people were killed in the war, according to the World Health Organization, and 12 million displaced. However, aid groups say the true death toll could be way higher.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Mitchell Starc punished England with the bat rather than the ball in the first session Saturday to help lift Australia to a 116-run first-innings lead on Day 3 of the second Ashes cricket test.

Starc was unbeaten on 46 and Scott Boland was seven not out in an unbroken 34-run stand as Australia went to the long interval at 450-8 almost halfway through the day-night test at the Gabba.

The leading bowler in the series so far with 16 wickets — he took a 10-wicket haul inAustralia's series-opening win at Perth— Starc went into bat in the fourth over Saturday at the end of a 54-run seventh-wicket partnership between overnight batters Alex Carey (63) and Michael Neser.

The Australians had resumed at378-6,a first-innings lead of 44 runs, and Carey quickly raised his 50 with a single off England captain Ben Stokes.

Neser (16) was caught behind later in the same over, and Starc went to the crease with the total at 383-7.

The eighth-wicket pair put on 33 runs, with Starc taking Australia's total past 400 with an attacking boundary against Brydon Carse in the 79th over, before Carey was out in the third over with the new ball.

Carey faced 69 deliveries and hit six boundaries before he was caught behind off Gus Atkinson's bowling.

With Australia at 416-8, the England attack would have been confident of bowling out the tailenders and getting a chance to bat in the bright afternoon sunlight before the first interval.

But in a repeat of Day 2, the English bowlers struggled to get their lengths right consistently, and Starc was more than content to bat for time as he took singles to retain the strike and shield No. 10 Boland from the new ball.

Starc hit back-to-back boundaries against Carse to take the lead past 100.

And he ended the session by hitting the last ball deep into the outfield for three runs to take Australia to 450 and ensure he'll start the middle session on strike.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU defensive coordinator Blake Baker, a former Tulane player who was widely seen as a top candidate to take over the Green Wave after Jon Sumrall leaves for Florida, will instead remain with the Tigers, coach Lane Kiffin said in a social media post on Friday night.

Baker "is going nowhere!!!!" Kiffin posted on his X account.

Baker, hired by former LSU coach Brian Kelly, has led the defense the past two seasons and has been one of the highest-paid assistants in college football at $2.5 million annually. Now he's expected to receive a raise under Kiffin, who agreed last Sunday — in the midst of an 11-win season at Ole Miss — to accept a seven-year, $90 million contract to coach at LSU.

LSU ranked 15th in scoring defense this season, allowing 18.3 points per game.

Kiffin's announcement that the 43-year-old Baker will remain on LSU's staff comes on the heels of the Tigers landing a pair of highly rated recruits at defensive tackle: Lamar Brown and Deuce Geralds.

Baker was a defensive coordinator at Missouri before taking he same post at LSU, where he'd also served as a linebackers coach under Ed Orgeron in 2021. Baker also has been a defensive coordinator at Miami and Louisiana Tech. ___

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