US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledge to deport non-citizen college students and other resident aliens who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House official said. A fact sheet on the order said Trump would order the Justice Department to “aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson,…
Israel said on Wednesday that 11 more hostages held in Gaza, including five Thais, would be freed over two days this week as part of a fragile Gaza ceasefire. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it had received a list from Hamas of eight hostages to be freed on Thursday, including the Thais, and another…
The White House said on Wednesday it was prepared to fight in court after a US judge temporarily blocked part of the Trump administration’s sweeping directive to pause federal loans, grants and other financial assistance. “Everything this administration does is within the confines of the law, so we’re prepared to fight this battle in court,”…
Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa was named president for a transitional period, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported on Wednesday, citing commander Hassan Abdel Ghani. Al-Sharaa was also authorized to form a temporary legislative council for the transitional phase which will carry out its task until a new constitution is adopted, SANA reported,…
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo were moving south on Wednesday towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, in what appeared to be an attempt to expand their area of control in the country’s east after capturing the city of Goma. M23 forces were advancing south from the town of Minova,…
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will order the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 migrants. The US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, already houses a migrant facility – separate from the high-security US prison for foreign terrorism suspects…
Mexico will write to Google objecting to its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” on its maps following Donald Trump’s order, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday. Google said the change aligned with its policy of following official US government geographic designations through the Geographic Names Information System. “We are drafting a…
A fire aboard the Hong Kong-flagged ASL Bauhinia on Tuesday was not linked to Houthi attacks, the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Joint Maritime Information Center said on Wednesday. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, JMIC said. A maritime security source told Reuters that the fire resulted from hazardous cargo on board. There has been a…
An avalanche in the French Alps on Wednesday killed four Norwegian skiers swept away by the off-piste torrent of snow and ice, officials in the southeastern Savoie region told AFP. On the same day a separate avalanche near Chamonix in the Haute-Savoie region to the north killed a Swiss skier, according to the public prosecutor’s office in…
The Trump administration ordered federal agencies to scrub mentions of “gender ideology” in contracts, job descriptions and social media accounts in line with an executive order forcing the government to recognize only two sexes. A memo issued Wednesday by the US Office of Personnel Management gives guidance on carrying out an executive order by President Donald Trump…
New York-based cybersecurity firm Wiz says it has found a trove of sensitive data from the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek inadvertently exposed to the open internet. In a blog post published Wednesday, Wiz said that scans of DeepSeek’s infrastructure showed that the company had accidentally left more than a million lines of data available unsecured. Those…
Hundreds of internal contractors working for the US Agency for International Development are being put on unpaid leave and some are being terminated after US President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping freeze on US foreign aid worldwide. The furloughs come even as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued overnight an additional waiver for “life-saving humanitarian assistance”…
A regional jet from Kansas carrying 60 passengers crashed into Washington’s Potomac River after colliding mid-air with a Black Hawk Sikorsky H-60 military helicopter while on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, officials said Wednesday, prompting a major emergency response and grounding all flights. Eight bodies have since been recovered, according to media reports….
Colombian President Gustavo Petro welcomes ‘free and dignified’ deportees, stressing that migrants are not criminals. The first flights carrying migrants deported from the United States to Colombia after a major diplomatic row have arrived in the capital Bogota. The Colombian government confirmed on Tuesday that two planes carrying migrants had landed. A total of 201 migrants —…
Russian Ambassador For Pakistan, Albert P. Khorev has Written a column on Newspaper “The Nations”, In which he said, The Relations between Russia and Pakistan are based on long-standing friendship and trust. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently noted, our bilateral cooperation is on an upward trajectory and is at its highest point in…
