UK publishes emergency bill to allow deportation plan to Rwanda | Migration News

UK publishes emergency bill to allow deportation plan to Rwanda | Migration News

The ‘Safety of Rwanda Bill’ aims to enable the government’s flagship Rwanda policy to go ahead despite the United Kingdom’s top court finding it unlawful. The UK government has published emergency legislation aimed at allowing a controversial deportation scheme to Rwanda to move forward. The “Safety of Rwanda Bill” is…

US presidential hopefuls face off in fourth Republican primary debate | Elections News

US presidential hopefuls face off in fourth Republican primary debate | Elections News

Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are racing to establish themselves as the obvious alternative to Donald Trump. US presidential hopefuls are set to take the stage for the fourth debate in the 2024 Republican primary, with the race narrowing to a head-to-head battle to be the main alternative to frontrunner…

Israeli raid kills 22 members of Al Jazeera correspondent’s family in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli raid kills 22 members of Al Jazeera correspondent’s family in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

The family members of Moamen Al Sharafi, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, have been killed at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. An Al Jazeera employee has lost 22 members of his family in an Israeli air attack on the home in which they were sheltering in the Gaza…

Putin makes rare trip to Middle East to meet with UAE and Saudi leaders | Vladimir Putin News

Putin makes rare trip to Middle East to meet with UAE and Saudi leaders | Vladimir Putin News

The Russian leader has been bolstering his partnerships with Gulf nations as Moscow faces growing isolation by the West. Escorted by four fighter jets, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare one-day lightning tour to the Middle East during which he visited the United Arab Emirates before departing for Saudi…

Iran launches animals into space as it revives bid for human missions | Space News

Iran launches animals into space as it revives bid for human missions | Space News

Iran’s ramping up of space launches in recent years has helped to spur additional tension with the West. Tehran, Iran – Iran has sent a capsule carrying animals into space as it boosts its Western-contested space programme in preparation for human missions. State media on Wednesday released a clip of…

US man arrested for ‘religiously motivated’ attack in Australia | News

US man arrested for ‘religiously motivated’ attack in Australia | News

Investigators in the US and Australia say the 58-year-old incited ‘terror attack’ in which six people died last year. An American citizen has been arrested and charged in the US state of Arizona for online comments that allegedly incited a “religiously motivated terrorist attack” in Australia a year ago in…

Israel army in most intense combat in Gaza war, no safe place to evacuate | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israel army in most intense combat in Gaza war, no safe place to evacuate | Israel-Palestine conflict News

The Israeli army has widened its attacks in southern and central Gaza, with some of the heaviest fighting in the war seeing homes sheltering displaced Palestinians bombed, refugee camps hit and no safe place left to evacuate thousands of people already on the move for weeks. From early Wednesday morning,…

US lawmakers lag voters in support for Gaza ceasefire | Israel-Palestine conflict News

US lawmakers lag voters in support for Gaza ceasefire | Israel-Palestine conflict News

A new poll says more than 60% US voters want ceasefire, while only 11% of lawmakers support an end to Israel’s war. Support among members of the United States Congress for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war is far lower than among voters. Data for Progress, a progressive US think…

Israeli captives’ families angry after meeting with Netanyahu | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli captives’ families angry after meeting with Netanyahu | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met families of captives freed from Gaza in an encounter described as tense by the Israeli media. Tuesday’s meeting came amid intensified fighting in the besieged Gaza Strip following the end of a seven-day pause in hostilities that enabled the return of more than…

US says Russia rejected ‘substantial’ proposal to free two jailed Americans | Politics News

US says Russia rejected ‘substantial’ proposal to free two jailed Americans | Politics News

Washington says ‘no higher priority’ than effort to secure release from Russia of Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan. The United States has said Moscow rejected what it said was a “substantial” proposal to secure the freedom of Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan who…