China to snub UK energy summit amid row over infrastructure projects

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Exclusive: Absence of world’s biggest clean energy producer will be welcomed by US pushing oil and gas exports

China is to snub a major UK summit on energy security next week, the Guardian has learned, amid a growing row over the country’s involvement in UK infrastructure projects.

The US will send a senior White House official to the 60-country summit, to be co-hosted with the International Energy Agency. Leading oil and gas companies are also invited, along with big technology businesses, and petrostates including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

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Irregular migrant crossings into Europe fall 30% in first quarter of 2025

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Human rights groups say drop is partly due to EU policies that turn blind eye to rights abuses in countries such as Libya and Tunisia

Irregular crossings at Europe’s borders have fallen by 30% in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period last year, in a decrease that rights groups partly attributed to EU policies that have emphasised deterrence while seemingly turning a blind eye to the risk of rights abuses.

The decline was seen across all the major migratory routes into Europe, the EU’s border agency Frontex said in a statement, amounting to nearly 33,600 fewer arrivals in the first three months of the year.

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Scoop: Trump holds situation room meeting on Iran nuclear deal negotiations – Axios

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  1. Scoop: Trump holds situation room meeting on Iran nuclear deal negotiations  Axios
  2. Opinion | Witkoff Walks It Back on Iran  WSJ
  3. US Wants Iran to Limit Nuclear Program Rather Than Dismantle It  Bloomberg
  4. Iran’s Negotiating Position Gets Worse and Worse  The Atlantic
  5. Khamenei downplays US talks prospects as some Iranians' hopes stir, currency gains  Reuters
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Peru’s ex-President Ollanta Humala guilty of money laundering – BBC

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  1. Peru's ex-President Ollanta Humala guilty of money laundering  BBC
  2. Peru’s former first lady seeks asylum in Brazilian Embassy as she and ex-President Humala sentenced to prison  CNN
  3. Peru’s former president sentenced to 15 years in jail for money laundering  Financial Times
  4. Brazil grants asylum to wife of Peru's former president Humala  Reuters
  5. Brazil to Lean Toward Granting Asylum to Peru’s Convicted Former First Lady  Bloomberg
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The untold story of how Trump shocked Europe in a few short days – politico.eu

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  1. The untold story of how Trump shocked Europe in a few short days  politico.eu
  2. Trump the unifier? How Europe could benefit from Trump’s policies  Euronews.com
  3. World’s Friendliest Superpower? As Trump Upends Globe, Europe Positions Itself.  The New York Times
  4. Why Europe Must Avoid a Strategic Trap in a Post-American World  Internationale Politik Quarterly
  5. The US Is the West’s Achilles’ Heel, but Not All Is Doomed  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Hong Kong halts postal service for US-bound goods over Trump’s ‘bullying’ tariffs

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Post office says it ‘definitely’ won’t collect tariffs on Washington’s behalf and Hongkongers should prepare to pay exorbitant fees

Hong Kong Post said on Wednesday it had suspended goods mail services by sea to the US and will suspend its air mail postal service for items containing goods from 27 April due to “bullying” US tariffs.

When sending items to the US, people in Hong Kong “should be prepared to pay exorbitant and unreasonable fees due to the US’s unreasonable and bullying acts”, Hong Kong Post said in a statement.

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Four journalists who were accused of working for Kremlin foe Navalny are convicted of extremism – AP News

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  1. Four journalists who were accused of working for Kremlin foe Navalny are convicted of extremism  AP News
  2. Journalists accused of working for Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny convicted of extremism  NBC News
  3. Russia Jails 4 Journalists for Working With Navalny’s Organization  The New York Times
  4. Four Russian journalists linked to late Kremlin critic Navalny sentenced at Moscow court  CNN
  5. Russian journalists jailed for 5-1/2 years for alleged extremist ties to Navalny  Reuters
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Are Trump’s nuclear talks Obama Iran Deal 2.0? – The Hill

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  1. Are Trump’s nuclear talks Obama Iran Deal 2.0?  The Hill
  2. Trump team's Iran divide: Dialogue vs. detonation to end nuclear threat  Axios
  3. Opinion | It’s a Mistake to Think the Biggest Problem With Iran Is Nuclear Weapons  The New York Times
  4. Deal or No Deal (Iran, Not Tariffs)  Council on Foreign Relations
  5. Trump wants a deal with the country that wants him dead  The Telegraph
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Democratic senator heads to El Salvador to try to visit Kilmar Ábrego García

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Chris Van Hollen warns of ‘constitutional crisis’ and says he hopes to report back to family on Maryland man’s condition

Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland will travel to El Salvador on Wednesday and attempt to visit Kilmar Ábrego García, a constituent whose deportation and incarceration in the Central American country, he warns, has tipped the United States into a constitutional crisis.

In an interview with the Guardian on Tuesday, Van Hollen said he hopes to learn of Ábrego García’s condition and convey it to his family, who also live in the state he represents.

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