Russia said Wednesday that it was waiting for “explanations” from France after a Russian government employee was detained for hours at a Paris airport in what it called a “shameful spectacle”. The employee, whom Russia did not name, worked for the foreign ministry and had arrived in France on Sunday as part of an official … Read more
Israeli police released Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal on Tuesday, after detaining him a day earlier for “hurling rocks” following what activists described as an attack by settlers in the occupied West Bank. Basel Adra, who worked with Ballal on the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land”, posted a photo of Ballal on X after his … Read more
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered this year facing a knot of political problems with little precedent in his two decades at the summit of power in Turkey. Voters were angry about persistently high inflation. His political party’s popularity had sunk. And his opponents had coalesced around the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who made it … Read more
Panama will release 112 migrants who had been deported from the United States last month and were being held in a remote jungle camp, a minister said on Friday, after lawyers and advocates said the conditions violated Panamanian and international laws. The migrants come from countries that the United States cannot easily return deportees to, … Read more
Washington — At least one U.S. citizen who had been detained in Belarus was released Wednesday, the United States’ top hostage negotiator said, one of three prisoners being freed. Adam Boehler, President Trump’s nominee to be the envoy for hostage affairs, told reporters at the White House that the individual wants to remain private. Two … Read more
Donald Trump has signed an executive order to open a migrant detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. Speaking before making the act official, Mr Trump said that thousands of migrants who cannot be deported to their home countries will be held at the complex, on the island of Cuba. “I’m also signing an executive order to … Read more
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (January 30) said he will sign an executive order to establish a 30,000-person migrant detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Trump announced that the executive order directs the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparations for the new facility. The move aims to … Read more
Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attended court for the first time on Saturday to fight a request by investigators to extend his detention as they probe his failed martial law bid. Thousands of Yoon’s supporters rallied outside the court and scuffled with police as they chanted support for the suspended leader, who plunged … Read more
President Donald Trump issues warning to Venezuela’s Maduro President Donald Trump issues warning to Venezuela’s Maduro 03:03 Caracas — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, in power since 2013, was to take the oath of office for a third term Friday despite a global outcry that brought thousands out in protest on the ceremony’s eve. Opposition leader … Read more