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A flight carrying 199 Venezuelans deported from the US to their homeland has landed at Simón Bolívar airport near Caracas. US repatriation flights to Venezuela had ground to a halt weeks ago after the Trump administration revoked a licence allowing Venezuela to export some of its oil to the US despite sanctions. But on Saturday the two governments, which have no diplomatic relations, reached an agreement on resuming the flights, […]
A US federal judge has refused to lift a temporary restraining order blocking the deportation of Venezuelan migrants under President Donald Trump's invocation of wartime powers.′ On March 15, Trump deported 238 alleged Venezuelan gang members to a mega-prison in El Salvador, citing the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, last used during World War II. Judge James Boasberg ruled on Monday that many of those deported dispute their gang affiliation and […]
US funding cuts will lead to an additional 2,000 new HIV infections each day and over six million further deaths over the next four years, the UNAids chief has warned. It would mark a stark reversal in the global fight against HIV, which has seen the number of deaths from the disease decrease from more than two million in 2004 to 600,000 in 2023, the most recent year for which […]
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, fulfilling a campaign pledge and a long-cherished goal of some conservatives. Accusing the agency of "breath-taking failures", the Republican president vowed to return the money it controls to individual states. "We're going to shut it down as quickly as possible," Trump said, although the White House acknowledged that closing the agency outright would require an act […]
The United Kingdom’s Heathrow airport has closed until midnight on Friday due to a power outage, throwing the plans of tens of thousands of travellers into chaos. London’s main airport, which is Europe’s busiest gateway, said on Friday that it had suffered a “significant” power failure due to a fire at an electrical substation supplying the facility. “To maintain the safety of our passengers and colleagues, Heathrow will be closed […]
At least 55 Palestinians have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in Gaza, the Hamas-run civil defence agency has said. It comes after Israel resumed its bombing campaign and ground operations in the territory this week, with air strikes killing more than 430 people over two days, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Hamas says the ground operation announced by Israel on Wednesday is a "new and dangerous" violation […]
A French tourist detained by Iranian authorities for more than two years has been released and returned to France, President Emmanuel Macron has said. Olivier Grondeau, 34, is "free" and with his family, Macron wrote on X on Thursday, adding: "We share his family's immense happiness and relief." Mr Grondeau was arrested in southern Iran in October 2022 and sentenced to five years in prison for "conspiracy against the […]
Four Canadians were executed in China on drug-related charges earlier this year, Canadian authorities have confirmed. All of them were dual citizens and their identities have been withheld, Canada's foreign minister Mélanie Joly said. A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Canada reportedly urged Ottawa to "stop making irresponsible remarks", as pundits feared a further downturn in relations between the countries after years of strain. China's foreign ministry said on […]
US President Donald Trump has held what he described as a "very good" hour-long phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, a day after speaking to Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Zelensky said afterwards that he believed that "lasting peace can be achieved this year" under Trump's leadership. Possible US ownership of Ukraine's nuclear power plants was also discussed, the White House said, although Zelensky later stated this was only […]
