• O governo alemão classifica o redeslocamento de 5.000 tropas como 'antecipado' e um lembrete da necessidade da Europa de investir em sua própria defesa
• 'Amamos nossos americanos': a cidade alemã abalada pelo plano de Trump de retirar tropas dos EUA
Homem curdo-sírio, 26, disse que fugiu do recrutamento forçado pela milícia YPG porque ‘não queria matar pessoas’
Um solicitante de asilo enviado de volta à França sob o controverso esquema “um entra, um sai” enfrenta o risco de ser devolvido à Síria após as autoridades em Paris determinarem que era seguro fazê-lo, naquele que se acredita ser o primeiro caso do gênero.
Quando o primeiro-ministro britânico, Keir Starmer, e o presidente francês, Emmanuel Macron, anunciaram o acordo “inovador” em julho de 2025 para impedir que pequenos barcos lotados de solicitantes de asilo cruzassem o Canal da Mancha – devolvendo à força um solicitante de asilo de pequenos barcos à França em troca de trazer legalmente para o Reino Unido um que estivesse no norte da França – eles enfatizaram que a França era um país seguro para os retornados.
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• Advogados, citando novas evidências que incluem selfies, entraram com um pedido para deter Cole Tomas Allen até o seu julgamento.
• Promotores federais forneceram em um documento na quarta-feira o relato mais detalhado até agora sobre o suposto plano de semanas de Cole Tomas Allen para matar Donald Trump e vários membros de seu gabinete que se juntaram a mais de 2.500 membros do corpo de imprensa de Washington para o jantar anual de correspondentes da Casa Branca.
• O pedido, que visa manter Allen detido e foi protocolado pela procuradora dos EUA para o DC, Jeanine Pirro, inclui duas selfies do suposto atirador em frente a um espelho em seu quarto de hotel, vestindo um terno preto e com um leve sorriso no rosto. Ele está equipado com duas armas de fogo e várias facas presas ao cinto. Os promotores alegam que são as mesmas armas que foram confiscadas de Allen após o ataque.
Home secretary indicates Whitehall talks about returns programme, a move that would shock humanitarian groupsShabana Mahmood has refused to rule out sending rejected Afghan asylum seekers back to the Taliban-controlled country.The home secretary said she is “monitoring very closely” talks between Kabul and EU countries about a returns programme for refused claimants. She also indicated that “additional conversations” about Afghan returns were happening inside Whitehall. Continue reading...
Philip Rycroft says promises on issues from economics to immigration have not lived up to expectationsBritain should start talking about rejoining the EU, according to a former senior civil servant who ran the Brexit department.Philip Rycroft, who was permanent secretary of the Department for Exiting the EU, said the “argument was there to be won” about going back into Europe, adding that a “clear-headed appraisal of what is in the country’s best interests” was needed. However, he said rejoining the bloc could be a “long and windy” road. Continue reading...
Removal site in Dunkirk will hold people of 10 nationalities trying to reach UK in small boats under new deal with FrenchUK politics live – latest updatesThe UK will pay for 200 French officers to detain and deport people seeking asylum from some of the world’s most oppressive and war-ravaged regimes under a new UK-France deal to try to reduce Channel crossings.In what is being billed as the first time the French government has agreed to target those heading to the UK in small boats, a removal site in Dunkirk will be used to hold people from 10 countries: Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Syria, Vietnam and Yemen. The Home Office said they were the top 10 nationalities who crossed the Channel by small boat last year. Continue reading...
US special envoy Zampolli hopes for Italy involvementDoubts remain over Iran’s participationAn envoy to the US President Donald Trump has asked Fifa to replace Iran with Italy in the upcoming World Cup, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.The plan is an effort to repair ties between Trump and Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni after the two fell out amid the American president’s attacks against Pope Leo XIV over the Iran war, the FT reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Continue reading...
Experts say Muslims and other minorities have been disproportionately deleted from the electoral roll ahead of the West Bengal elections this weekMillions of people in the Indian state of West Bengal have been stripped of their vote ahead of a critical state election this week, after a controversial electoral revision described by critics as a “bloodless political genocide” and mass disenfranchisement of minorities.In West Bengal, a total of 9.1 million names have been deleted from the register, more than 10% of the electorate. While many were dead or duplicates, about 2.7 million people have challenged their expulsions, but still been removed. Continue reading...
Islamabad has seized chance to act as mediator in Iran war and hopes to reap diplomatic and economic benefitsMiddle East crisis – live updatesAs Pakistan works frantically to narrow differences between Iran and the US in its newfound role as global peacemaker, it is also seeking to recast its diplomatic standing and attract business.Pakistani officials, mediating between an unpredictable US president and hardliners in Tehran, were on Monday trying to coax both sides to put the conditions in place for a second round of talks in Islamabad this week, including easing the standoff in the strait of Hormuz. Pakistan was optimistic that the meeting would happen, viewing objections voiced by the Iranian side and Donald Trump’s threats as posturing for domestic audiences. Continue reading...