Law enforcement officers walk as buses carrying migrants who arrived in Costa Rica on a deportation flight from the U.S. leave Juan Santamaria International Airport, in Alajuela, Costa Rica, February 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A group of families and children hailing from Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, Russia and more countries climbed down the stairs … Read more
Tasman Sea. File | Photo Credit: AP Australia warned international airlines flying between Australian airports and New Zealand to beware of Chinese warships conducting a live-fire exercise in the Tasman Sea, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Friday (February 21, 2025). Mr. Wong confirmed an Australian Broadcasting Corp. report that regulator Airservices Australia had warned … Read more
File picture of French President Emmanuel Macron with U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Elysee Palace in Paris | Photo Credit: Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday (February 20, 2025) he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that his interests were in line … Read more
President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: AP Saudi Arabia’s emergence as a neutral venue for dialogue to resolve long-festering conflicts in Europe and West Asia is not sudden and is based on a tradition of helping partner countries caught in conflicts, said leading Saudi editors and commentators on Thursday (February 20, 2025). Addressing the … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for “strong” ties with Washington on Thursday (February 21, 2025), as he met U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg in Kyiv a day after Donald … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump with China’s President Xi Jinping. File | Photo Credit: Reuters China came out in support of U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to strike a deal with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, at a G20 meeting in South Africa on Thursday (February 20, 2025), while U.S. allies rallied around Ukrainian … Read more
The Justice Department in August 2023 filed an administrative complaint alleging SpaceX from 2018 to 2022 routinely discouraged asylum recipients and refugees. File | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday (February 20, 2025) said it would drop a case accusing Elon Musk’s space technology company SpaceX of refusing to hire certain … Read more
Indians deported from the US being escorted by the police as they leave the airport after their arrival, in Amritsar, early Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: – Deportations from U.S. put spotlight on human trafficking syndicates Large-scale deportation of illegal immigrants from the United States to India has put the spotlight on human trafficking … Read more
Israeli police said that explosions rocked several buses in the central Israeli city of Bat Yam on Thursday evening (February 20, 2025) in what they described as a “suspected terror attack”, without giving any immediate reports of injuries. “Preliminary report – Suspected terror attack. Multiple reports have been received of explosions involving several buses at … Read more
K.T.M. Udayanga Hemapala, Secretary to the Ministry of Energy, Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: Meera Srinivasan Colombo is not seeking to renegotiate the contentious renewable energy project with Adani Green, a top Sri Lankan official said, a week after the company abruptly pulled out of a wind farm initiative in the island’s Northern Province. Adani … Read more