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British police said on Wednesday that they had arrested three men in connection with the deaths of five migrants that attempted to cross the Channel from France. It comes a day after British parliament passed a bill paving the way for asylum seekers to be deported to Rwanda. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has argued the measure will deter migrants from attempting to cross the Channel. More than 6,000 people are have arrived to Britain this year so far via small boats. What do we know about the investigation? The migrants, among which was one child, died on Tuesday after a…

The drive into the village of Jiljiliya is not what you expect on the West Bank. Imposing mansions line the route, with grand gates and lavish decorations.That’s because this is where Palestinian Americans return to build their dream homes after years of hard work in the land of opportunity. Like Omar Assad who came back after 45 years in Milwaukee. But for him, retirement was neither long nor happy. It was cut brutally short one freezing night in January 2022. Image: The body of Omar Assad at his funeral Middle East latest: Israel to receive billions from massive US aid…

Police in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth recently arrested two German citizens in connection with a Russian espionage incident. Identified as Dieter S. and Alexander J., in line with German privacy law, both are of Russian descent and are suspected of having prepared acts of sabotage in Germany on behalf of the Russian secret services. They are also accused of spying on US military bases and planning attacks on transportation routes used by the military. The German Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office has alleged that Dieter S. is “a member of the “Donetsk People’s Republic foreign terrorist organization.” German investigators have classified the self-proclaimed republic…

Chaos engulfed campuses across the United States as pro-Palestinian student protests spread to universities across the length and breadth of this country. A movement which started at Columbia University on the east coast has now spread to the north, south and west. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles at least 93 people were arrested during a volatile three-hour standoff between protesters and the police. Image: A protester is detained at the University of Southern California. Pic: AP Image: Pic: Reuters One young woman, wearing an Arab scarf, threw a bottle of water at officers and was tackled to…

The halls and corridors of the European Parliament were a hive of activity this week. Hundreds of elected lawmakers bustled between votes, racing to wrap up a record number of laws before bloc-wide elections in June. Outside the chamber of the European Union’s only directly elected body, journalists jostled for space and final interviews before politicians enter campaign mode in earnest. It’s easy to forget just how many political twists and turns those lawmakers have navigated since the last elections in 2019, with Europe bouncing from one crisis to the next — first Brexit, then the COVID-19 pandemic, then Russia’s…

Elaine Custodio arrived in Bonn, Germany, in March 2018 with six years of nursing experience under her belt and a B1 intermediate German language certificate in her backpack. Before leaving her native Philippines to start a nursing job at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), Custodio studied German full- time to obtain the language skills necessary for working there. But despite her best efforts, she struggled to speak and understand German — something that proved to be a big hurdle in the workplace. How difficult is learning German? German is one of the 10 most difficult languages in the world, according to…

Two courts aren’t enough – not for Donald Trump, not on a Thursday.His hush money criminal trial and Supreme Court hearing, legal events one and two, were already under way when he scored the hat-trick. A New York judge announced he was upholding the verdict and the $83m damages award against Trump for defaming writer E Jean Carroll.There’s a lot going on, legally, and there’s a lot riding on all of it for Trump.Catch up: how the day unfolded in court The hearing at the Supreme Court concerned the 6 January riots, election subversion and Trump’s alleged involvement. It is…

Earlier this month, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s secretary for relations with states and international organizations, wrapped up a six-day working trip to Vietnam in anticipation of a rumored visit by Pope Francis later in the year. Gallagher, the papacy’s top diplomat, met with Vietnam’s prime minister and foreign minister and expressed the Vatican’s “gratitude” for the progress made to improve the relationship between the two states, including Hanoi’s decision last year to allow the Vatican to send its first resident papal representative to Vietnam in decades. A joint working group was established in 2009 to repair relations that were severed in…

The announcement by the US on Wednesday that it had already provided Ukraine with long-range missiles reopened an ongoing debate in Germany over the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukrainian forces.  The US weapons system, called Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), has a range of up to 300 kilometers (180 miles). German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, along with the majority of German lawmakers, have repeatedly refused to send Ukraine long-range Taurus weapons system, arguing that doing so would bring Germany into direct conflict with Russia.  On Wednesday at a press conference alongside UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Scholz reiterated his opposition to providing Taurus missiles.  “My decision will not change,”…

Donald Trump managed a partial victory in the Supreme Court today, as justices delayed any potential decision on his immunity case over election riots.Trump argued on Thursday he has total immunity over the 2020 riots and while justices in the Supreme Court were not convinced by his arguments, some raised the point he may have some level of immunity – and delayed any potential decision on that until June. If they then rule the former president does have a level of immunity, it could kick the issue back into lower courts to decide what that level is, and knock back…