Dr Phil joins Chicago immigration raid as border czar says more arrests coming
TV personality embeds in one of several raids in US cities in what Tom Homan says are only ‘beginning stages’
The TV personality Dr Phil joined the US border czar, Tom Homan, in a choreographed immigration raid in Chicago, one of several conducted in US cities over the weekend in what Homan claimed was only “the beginning stages” of Donald Trump’s promised threat to deport millions of people from the country.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said it had made 956 arrests on Sunday, bringing the total since Trump took office to 2,681 arrests – short of the 1,200 to 1,500 daily arrests that Trump has reportedly demanded. The Washington Post reported that Trump’s White House has issued a directive to Ice field offices that they should make 75 arrests daily and that agency managers would be held responsible for missed targets, raising fears of indiscriminate arrest tactics.
Continue reading...‘All we can hear are gunshots’: Thousands flee as DR Congo rebels claim Goma city – BBC.com
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- Rwanda-Backed Rebels Enter Congo Safe-Haven City, Aid Hub The Wall Street Journal
- Fighting ongoing across DRC's Goma, Rwanda troops in city, says UN Yahoo! Voices
Donald Trump’s toxic remarks on Gaza reveal lack of joined-up thinking
US president has already caused trouble abroad and at home with incoherent ideas about Middle East politics
The suggestion by the US president, Donald Trump, that Gaza’s Palestinian population could be “cleaned out” and moved to Egypt and Jordan is an idea that has long been circulated by the Israeli right.
Over the decades since the Six Day war in 1967, when Israeli forces first captured the Gaza Strip, which had been under Egyptian military rule, Israeli officials and commentators have periodically pushed the notion that Palestinians in Gaza could be resettled in Egypt.
Continue reading...Residents flee Goma as M23 rebels enter DRC’s largest eastern city
Fighting in and around the city has escalated despite calls from the UN Security Council for the rebels to withdraw.
Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek sparks market turmoil
Share prices in US and European firms fall as the Chinese technology threatens to disrupt the AI industry.
Tesla takes EU to court over tariffs on EVs made in China
Elon Musk’s company still imports large number of cars into Europe from its Shanghai factory
Tesla has filed a complaint against the European Commission after the imposition of tariffs by the bloc on its Chinese-made electric vehicles.
The EU announced its decision to impose tariffs on all imports of Chinese electric cars in June, alleging that the Chinese government had provided unfair state subsidies to manufacturers in order to win a dominant position in the emerging industry. EU leaders approved the tariffs in October.
Continue reading...A ‘revolving door’ for political prisoners? Venezuelan families cry foul
As President Nicolas Maduro takes up his third term, critics accuse him of continued abuses against rivals.
California rains help douse wildfires but risk toxic runoff, mudslides
Expert warns of 'fairly high danger of mud, debris flows' as crews work to put out final pockets of LA-area blazes.
Pope Francis Says Too Much Online Scrolling Causes ‘Brain Rot’ – The Daily Beast
- Pope Francis Says Too Much Online Scrolling Causes ‘Brain Rot’ The Daily Beast
- ‘Communication is stepping outside ourselves,’ Pope Francis says Catholic News Agency
- Pope urges Catholic Institutional communicators to network to bring hope Vatican News - English
- Pope Francis warns that excessive scrolling causes 'brain rot' Euronews
- Pope calls for release of all 'unjustly imprisoned' journalists La Croix International
Trump to sign order eliminating DEI from military
The president also will reinstate US servicemembers who were discharged for refusing Covid vaccines.
Rwanda-DRC tension: Have rebels taken control of Congolese city? What next?
M23 fighters have been pressing to capture strategic eastern city for months and intensified offensives in recent days.
No 10 accused of trying not to upset French by renaming HMS Agincourt
Decision to change name of new submarine to HMS Achilles is ‘craven political correctness’, says ex-navy officer
Downing Street has defended the government’s decision to change the name of a new attack submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, after critics accused ministers of trying not to upset the French.
A No 10 spokesperson called the decision to change the planned name of the vessel “appropriate and fitting”, despite criticism that ministers were being “craven”. Officials say the name Achilles had been chosen in part to pay tribute to an earlier ship of the same name.
Continue reading...Lebanon says Israeli troops killed 24 ahead of ceasefire extension – The Washington Post
- Lebanon says Israeli troops killed 24 ahead of ceasefire extension The Washington Post
- White House Statement on Agreement Extension Between Lebanon and Israel The White House
- Hezbollah chief says group won't accept any justification to extend period for Israeli troops withdrawal The Times of Israel
- Israel forces kill two in south Lebanon as displaced people try to return Al Jazeera English
- Hezbollah does not accept reasons for time extension for Israeli troop withdrawal, chief says Reuters
Druglord arrested in UK after wife’s holiday photos on social media gives away location – The Indian Express
Good Energy agrees near-£100m takeover by UAE-linked firm
Esyasoft to acquire UK company, which supplies renewable power to about 245,000 households and businesses
A British green electricity supplier, Good Energy, has agreed a near-£100m takeover by a company controlled by a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family.
The retail energy company said on Monday it had agreed a deal with the Dubai-headquartered Esyasoft for a cash offer of £4.90 a share, valuing it at £99.4m.
Continue reading...Exclusive-Russian oil refining rises as US sanctions target crude exports – sources – Yahoo Finance
- Exclusive-Russian oil refining rises as US sanctions target crude exports - sources Yahoo Finance
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- No threat to availability due to US curbs on Russian oil: IOC chief The Times of India
South Korean plane crash probe focuses on bird strike, runway barrier – The Washington Post
- South Korean plane crash probe focuses on bird strike, runway barrier The Washington Post
- South Korea's Jeju Air plane crash probe finds duck DNA in both engines of jet that burst into flames in Seoul CBS News
- Jeju Air: Bird feathers found in engines of crashed South Korean jet BBC.com
- South Korea reports initial findings of Jeju Air crash CNN
- Final 4 minutes of recordings on Jeju Air flight missing, preliminary report says ABC News
Ancient British coins found in Dutch field likely to be spoils of Roman conquest
Archaeologists hail discovery of very rare hoard featuring 44 gold coins bearing name of Celtic king Cunobelinus
A hoard of British coins bearing the inscription of King Cunobelin and found in a Dutch field have been identified as very likely to be the spoils of war of a Roman soldier from the conquest of Britain.
The 44 gold coins, known as staters, were discovered alongside 360 Roman coins, by two amateur archaeologists with metal detectors in a field in Bunnik, near Utrecht. The coins are believed to have been given as military pay.
Continue reading...Father of girl, 14, killed in family’s kitchen in Darlington guilty of murder
Simon Vickers, 50, had claimed his daughter, Scarlett, died in a freak accident, but prosecutors said he stabbed her
A father who claimed his 14-year-old daughter died in a freak accident after innocent horseplay has been found guilty of murdering her by stabbing her in the heart with a kitchen knife.
Simon Vickers, 50, claimed he did not know precisely how his daughter, Scarlett Vickers, came to be killed in the family kitchen on a Friday night in July last year.
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