President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation campaign in US history and curb immigration, mainly from Latin American nations. The order affects around 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans who came to the United States under a scheme launched in October 2022 by Trump’s predecessor Joe Bide,n and expanded in January […]
The warning came as Israel pressed the renewed assault it launched on Tuesday, shattering the relative calm since a January 19 ceasefire. A Palestinian source close to the ceasefire talks told AFP late Friday that Hamas had received a proposal from mediators Egypt and Qatar for re-establishing a truce and exchanging hostages for Palestinian prisoners […]
Heathrow said its teams worked tirelessly to reopen the world’s fifth-busiest airport after it was forced to close entirely after a huge fire engulfed a nearby substation on Thursday night, with travellers told to stay away. The airport had been due to handle 1,351 flights on Friday, flying up to 291,000 passengers, but planes were […]
“Given the increasingly severe international situation, I believe we may truly be at a turning point in history,” Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said at the start of the meeting in Tokyo with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-Yul. The three agreed to accelerate preparations for a trilateral summit […]
The army was conducting search operations in areas around the palace in pursuit of members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the sources said. The RSF was not immediately available for comment. Intermittent gunfire was heard in some central areas of the capital Khartoum, witnesses told Reuters. The conflict has led to what the […]
Netanyahu said this week he had lost confidence in Ronen Bar, who has led the Shin Bet since 2021, and intended to dismiss him. Bar did not attend the cabinet meeting but in a letter sent to ministers said the process around his firing did not comply with rules and his dismissal was predicated on […]
The London Fire Brigade said around 70 firefighters were tackling the blaze in the west of London, which caused a mass power outage at Heathrow, Europe’s busiest and the world’s fifth-busiest airport. Huge orange flames and plumes of smoke could be seen shooting into the sky. Around 150 people were evacuated from nearby buildings and […]
The move is the latest by Trump to increase U.S. energy and minerals production and comes amid an escalating trade conflict with China, Canada and other large minerals producers that supply American manufacturers. Lithium, nickel and other critical minerals are used in many electronics, and demand is expected to surge in coming years for production […]
The release was announced after the Taliban government’s foreign minister hosted US hostage envoy Adam Boehler and other US officials in the Afghan capital. “Today, after two and a half years of captivity in Afghanistan, Delta Airlines mechanic George Glezmann is on his way to be reunited with his wife, Aleksandra,” Rubio said in a […]
Grondeau, 34, “is free and with his loved ones”, Macron wrote on X, adding that “our mobilization will not weaken” to ensure the release of two other French citizens still detained by Iran in what Paris views as state hostage-taking. Macron did not give further details on the circumstances of Grondeau’s release after an almost […]
