The boy, who was with his apprehended father, had been transferred to a New Mexico medical center showing signs of sickness on Monday, the agency said.

Staff diagnosed him with a cold but later discovered a fever. He was released at midday, with prescriptions for ibuprofen and the antibiotic amoxicillin.

The child was later transferred back to the hospital after showing signs of nausea and vomiting, and died just after midnight.

The CBP said it had not established the cause of death but would “ensure an independent and thorough review of the circumstances.”

Guatemala called on US authorities to conduct a “clear” investigation of the death, adding that “medical reports have been requested… to clarify the cause of death of the child.”

The news of the boy’s death triggered outrage on social media.

“Another child dies under this Administration’s watch,” tweeted Democratic Congressman Marc Veasey of Texas.

“Such a devastating story to hear on Christmas Day.”

“Heartbroken and sickened by this news,” Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico wrote on Twitter.

“I am urgently demanding more details, but the Trump administration must be held accountable for this child’s death and all the lives they have put in danger with their intentional chaos and disregard for human life,” he tweeted.

– ‘Searching for a dream’ –

The boy’s death came on the same day that Jakelin Caal, a Guatemalan migrant girl who died in US custody under similar circumstances earlier this month, was buried.

Her body was repatriated on Sunday and after a long journey reached the remote village where her family lives without electricity and other basic services.

“This girl left home happy searching for a dream, but unfortunately died on the way,” community leader Alberto Pop told AFP in the cemetery in the community of Maya Q’eqchi’.

“You hear that in the United States they pay well, not like the companies here in Guatemala — that’s why people leave,” said Pop, whose 22-year-old son Joaquin left in November in search of the American dream.

“I don’t know if he is alive or dead,” Pop said.

“Unfortunately, these decisions (to migrate) are made because of scarce economic resources,” Jakelin’s cousin Mario Caal said at the funeral.

Jakelin Caal’s December 8 death reignited debate in the United States over immigration policy and the treatment of migrants.

President Donald Trump has made hardline immigration policies a central plank of his presidency, drawing fire from critics who accuse him of demonizing migrants for political gain.

He is locked in a battle with Congress over funding for his planned border wall, which he claims will stem migration from Latin American countries plagued by gang violence and poverty.

“Heartbroken to hear of a second child’s death in CBP custody,” tweeted Nydia Velazquez, a Democratic congresswoman from New York.

“We must demand accountability, find answers and put an end to this Administration’s hateful, dangerous anti-immigrant policies.”

“I haven’t had the time to catch up on my reading for a while. ‘A street cat named Bob’ – one of my favourite books,” was what Dr Mahathir captioned for the two pictures posted on his Facebook.

‘A street cat named Bob’ by author James Bowen is a moving, uplifting true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets and the ginger cat who adopts him and helps him heal his life.

Bali Governor Wayan Koster announced the ban on Monday, as stipulated in Gubernatorial Regulation (Pergub) No. 97/2018, expressing hope that the policy would lead to a 70 per cent decline in Bali’s marine plastics within a year.

The new policy carries a six-month grace period dating from Dec. 21, when it was signed and took effect.

“This policy is aimed at producers, distributors, suppliers and business actors, including individuals, to suppress the use of single use plastics. They must substitute plastics with other materials,” Koster said as quoted by tribunnews.

He added that administrative sanctions would be imposed on those who did not comply with the ban. “If they disobey, we will take action, like not extending their business permit,” Koster said.

It has been difficult to trace the origins of the trash on Bali’s beaches, but experts estimate that up to 80 per cent comes from the island.

The trash that informal workers collect from hotels and villages is often dumped in rivers, which then carry the waste out to sea. The trash eventually finds its way back to the resort island’s beaches on coastal tides and currents.

Jakarta plans to follow Bali’s example by drafting a similar gubernatorial regulation that bans single-use plastic bags.

Jakarta Environmental Agency head Isnawa Adji said that Jakartans had already agreed to reduce plastic waste. According to a survey by the Indonesia Plastic Bags Diet Movement, more than 90 per cent of Jakarta’s residents agreed to reduce their use of plastics.

Isnawa said that one effort to reduce singleuse plastics was to limit drinking straws at restaurants, with other establishments to follow suit.

He said the agency would ask for input from stakeholders and residents in the months prior to enacting the ban.

The Finance Ministry’s customs and excise directorate general is also mulling over a plan to excise plastic bags next year to reduce their use.

Jun Yong Sung, 68 and Jaseoong Ha, 76, were on a golf cart with their caddie parking on a ferry on the banks of Nan River in Prompiram district when another golf cart carrying two South Korean female golfers bumped into their cart from the rear.

The impact pushed the first cart into the river. Their Thai caddie managed to swim back ashore but the two Koreans are still missing.

The ferry was about to bring the golfers back to their clubhouse when the accident happened.

While swimming at Gili Trawangan beach, near Bali, he got lost at sea for 12 hours. He thought he was going to die. But a fisherman came to his rescue and took him back to shore. Before long, it would become Clayton’s mission to return the favour.

After Lombok was hit by a series of earthquakes in August, killing hundreds of people and destroying thousands of homes, Clayton felt compelled to do something for the village that took him in. He raised about US$15,000 through a crowdsourcing website and in recent weeks has helped Nipah’s residents rebuild their lives.

“I owe them a lot,” the 37-year-old former political consultant says.

Clayton’s life intersected with those of the Nipah villagers by chance – or, some would argue, by fate. In July, he was at a popular beach near the northwestern coast of Lombok island, swimming at sunset. With its palm trees running neatly along the sand and thousands of coral reefs just offshore, the area is a magnet for backpackers and tourists. It seemed nothing could go wrong.

The beach faded from view as Clayton was dragged further and further out.

“I thought I would die, but I never really panicked,” he recalls of his 12 hours at sea. “I was talking to the stars, screaming at the shore … I experienced the full range of human emotions.”

The intense near-death experience helped Clayton put his life in perspective. Back in the US, he had been involved in several protests and initiatives against Trump. In February last year, for instance, Clayton and some other members of Americans Take Action, a group opposed to the US president, distributed nearly 1,000 Russian flags with Trumps’ name on them to attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Clayton wanted to draw attention to the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. But out at sea, those days of political activism seemed long gone.

“I was struck with this sense of gratitude,” he says. “I thought of my family and friends. I used to spend like 16 or 17 hours a day working on political campaigns … Yet I only thought about politics for about five seconds: ‘Come on man, you faced the US president, you can do this too’.”

While Clayton was fighting for his life at the mercy of the waves, a fisherman at Nipah village named Pur dreamt he must go out to sea.

“That night the waves were rough. I had a dream. It said: go out to sea and pick up something special. So I prepared my boat,” Pur recalls, in a video shot to raise money for his village. “While out at sea, I hear: ‘Help, help!’ I picked him [Clayton] out of the water. He had no energy. He hugged me and he cried.”

Clayton recalls the “glorified canoe” that appeared out of nowhere: “I was in shock. He pulled me out of the water, gave me water and his shirt.”

About 200 people were waiting for them at Nipah village. Clayton recalls the feeling of returning to dry land, of his hands touching the sand: “I thought I would not be able to do that ever again.”

He was looked after by Pur’s family for three days and remembers their generosity.

“This village is a step away from Eden,” he says. “When I woke up the first night, I asked myself: ‘Am I in heaven? Everyone is so warm.’”

It was only a matter of time before Clayton had the chance to return the favour to Pur, the fisherman who saved him. He had left Indonesia for a hike in Nepal when Lombok was hit by a series of earthquakes that left a trail of destruction.

“I tried to reach out to people by WhatsApp and I was like ‘Did everyone die?’ But after a few hours I heard from them,” he says. “Everyone was fine but their houses were destroyed.”

A magnitude-7.0 quake struck Lombok on August 5, killing about 460 people and displacing thousands. Nipah, where more than 1,000 families live, was badly affected. Aftershocks lasted about a month, making it even more difficult to rebuild. Clayton returned to Indonesia for a couple of weeks in August. The colourful homes had been reduced to rubble. He shot a video that he then used to launch an online campaign to raise money for the village. He was able to collect US$15,000 and went back to Nipah in December. The money is being used to buy materials, such as wood and metal, for 63 homes.

“I came here with the intention of using a hammer to erect homes,” he says. “But my primary contribution has been getting the materials and the trucks here. The village does not have roads but paths, so it’s necessary to carry in a lot of stuff by hand where vehicles don’t have access.”

Another project called Just One Village has also shared materials with Nipah. Despite the efforts of Clayton and that group, the residents of the village are still waiting for support from their own government.

“I can only say thank you to Ryan because he came and is helping the village,” says Ramdan, Pur’s nephew. “But I am also waiting for my government, although it seems they will take a long time.”

Clayton has been told this was the reason he got lost at the sea – so he could return to help the village. “If that is the reason, I am very happy that it happened, so I could meet the beautiful people of Nipah,” he says. “When you are in the water for 12 hours, it is very clarifying … All the time I have now is extra.”

Clayton plans to spend the next year writing about his life-changing experience. Beyond that, he is unsure of what the future holds – but Nipah will remain a crucial part of it.

“There are so many things to appreciate here,” he says. “They live in perfect harmony with nature. They eat food from the ocean and from the trees. They work a bit, but they spend a lot of time hanging out with their family. They are in general much more sensitive people. I will come here my entire life. I want to bring my family, my [future] children. I want them to meet the man who allowed my existence.”

Ifan has lost his wife, Dylan Sahara, who went missing in the days following the Sunda Strait tsunami on the evening of Dec. 22.

Aconk, a staffer with Seventeen, said that Dylan’s body was found at Pandeglang Regional General Hospital [RSUD]. “[…] We identified her and she [sic] is on the way to RSUD Serang,” he told kompas.com. Aconk said Dylan’s funeral would take place in her hometown of Ponorogo in East Java.

Ifan uploaded two photos on his Instagram account in remembrance of his wife. The couple were married in 2016. “Alhamdulillah [Praise be to God] I’ve found my wife. Thank you for your prayers,” he wrote in one post.

Dylan was backstage when the tsunami struck at a resort hotel on the popular beach of Tanjung Lesung in Pandeglang, Banten, where the band was performing. Ifan decided to remain in the regency until his wife was found.

“He stayed in Pandeglang and didn’t come home. [Pandeglang] is not too far from Tanjung Lesung [beach], it’s only several kilometers,” Seventeen spokesperson Yulia Dian to;d kompas.com.

Rumors initially circulated that Dylan was safe at a medical clinic, but the report turned out to be a hoax. “He was overjoyed and rushed to go get his wife, but she couldn’t be found anywhere,” said Yulia. “Maybe the person who thought he/she had found Dylan didn’t really know [what she looked like],” she said.

The band most recently lost drummer Andi, who had also gone missing following the disaster. Seventeen guitarist Herman Sikumbang, bassist M. Awal “Bani” Purbani, road manager Oki Wijaya and crew member Rukmana “Ujang” Rustam were confirmed killed in the tsunami. Ifan is the only surviving member of the four-man band.

The penalties, which North Korea is highly unlikely to pay willingly, come in the midst of a diplomatic drive by President Donald Trump, who is eager to reach a potentially landmark deal with leader Kim Jong Un.

The parents of Warmbier sued North Korea in a US court after the 22-year-old was flown back to the United States last year in a coma, unrecognizable to his family and dying within days of his return.

Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the US District Court for Washington, DC, awarded $501,134,683.80 to the family, most of it in punitive damages.

“An American family, the Warmbiers, experienced North Korea’s brutality first-hand when North Korea seized their son to use as a pawn in that totalitarian state’s global shenanigans and face-off with the United States,” she wrote.

“North Korea is liable for the torture, hostage-taking, and extrajudicial killing of Otto Warmbier, and the injuries to his mother and father, Fred and Cindy Warmbier,” she added.

– Chances of paying slim –

Howell said North Korea did not submit any response to the lawsuit, which the family filed under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a US law that allows lawsuits against foreign governments over offenses not considered to be covered by diplomatic immunity.

As one of the world’s most isolated countries, North Korea is believed to have few assets in the United States that could be seized to meet the judgment.

But North Korea is seeking to end economic sanctions imposed over its nuclear program. An accord with Trump raises the possibility of future US assistance, which could become entangled by the court-ordered damages.

Trump, who held a historic summit in June with North Korea, posted on Twitter that he had a briefing Monday on diplomatic efforts and is “looking forward to my next summit with Chairman Kim!”

Senator Robert Portman of Ohio, who had secretly met North Korean officials as he pushed for Warmbier’s release, hailed the court verdict.

“While nothing will bring back Otto Warmbier, who was such a promising young man, I’m glad that North Korea has been rightly held accountable for his death,” he tweeted.

– Unrecognizable after release –

Warmbier, an Ohio native who studied at the University of Virginia, traveled to North Korea on a tour but did not return home. He was pulled away at the Pyongyang airport and charged with crimes against the state for allegedly taking down a poster in support of Kim.

The ruling said the family was continually advised by the State Department to stay quiet, believing North Korea would make a demand in return for Warmbier’s safe release.

When he finally returned home after 17 months, Warmbier — a high school prom king who was studying business and economics — was attached to a feeding tube and was howling incomprehensible noises, the ruling said.

The head-shaven Warmbier had gone blind and deaf, his once straight teeth misaligned and his eyes bulging out, it said.

The judge quoted his neurologist in Ohio, Daniel Kanter, as concluding that Warmbier probably suffered brain damage of the sort caused by a loss of blood flow to the brain of five to 20 minutes.

Based on previously known cases in which North Korea extracted confessions, Warmbier’s injuries could have been caused by water-boarding, electric shock, suffocation or pulling his teeth with pliers, Howell said.

North Korea has denied ill-treatment of Warmbier, saying he contracted botulism, a nerve disorder caused by toxin poisoning, while in detention.

But the judge quoted medical tests that found no evidence of botulism. And even if the diagnosis were true, the judge questioned why North Korea did not earlier send him back for medical care, a delay which she said “compounds the deliberate nature of the totalitarian state’s brutal treatment of Otto.”

Just as it has since the 1950s the Canadian and American defense agency NORAD is delivering live updates on the man in the red suit’s international gift delivery route.

NORAD eased the fears of good little boys and girls concerned the tracker might be down, after US lawmakers failed agree on a budget, triggering a partial shutdown of federal services, including the maintenance of the Christmas tree outside the White House.

“In the event of a government shutdown, NORAD will continue with its 63-year tradition of NORAD Tracks Santa on Dec. 24,” the agency tweeted of the tracker, the Pentagon’s largest public outreach program.

“Military personnel who conduct NORAD Tracks Santa are supported by approximately 1,500 volunteers who make the program possible each and every year.”

The 3-D, interactive website at http://www.noradsanta.org showed Santa on his delivery route, allowing users to click and learn more about the various cities along the way.

Just after 0345 GMT, Father Christmas’s reindeer-powered sleigh was headed for Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, having already delivered more than 4.7 billion gifts.

In addition to tracking St Nick, volunteers donning military garb and Santa hats also respond to tens of thousands of calls and emails from eager children hoping to probe for details including their Christmas wish lists.

– Do you believe in Santa? –

The Trumps, who canceled their holiday trip to Mar a Lago, their residence and club in Florida, in light of the shutdown, took a turn fielding calls from the White House on Monday evening.

“Hello, is this Coleman? Merry Christmas. How are you? How old are you?” Trump said when answering one call.

But he went on to raise doubts about Santa’s existence, asking: “Are you still a believer in Santa Claus? ‘Cuz at seven it’s marginal, right?”

Melania apparently managed to skirt that sensitive issue in calls she answered.

“I want to wish you a Merry Christmas. Thank you. Nice talking to you,” she told one caller.

The Santa tracker presented by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) dates to 1955, when a Colorado newspaper advertisement misprinted a phone number to connect children with Santa and mistakenly directed them to the military nerve center hotline.

To avoid disappointing the eager children, NORAD’s director of operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, ordered his staff to check the radar to see where Santa might be and update the children on his location.

Decades later volunteers are armed with a 14-page playbook with talking points to respond to queries from excited children.

The Defense Department is able to follow Santa’s journey thanks to satellites that pick up heat from lead reindeer Rudolph’s bright red nose, which “gives off an infrared signature similar to a missile launch,” according to Politico magazine.

And for those kids skeptical of Santa’s existence?

“Historical data and more than 60 years of NORAD tracking information lead us to believe Santa Claus is alive and well in the hearts of people throughout the world,” the Pentagon’s handbook reads.