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US will ‘move on’ from Ukraine peace talks if no progress soon
The US will abandon trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless there are clear signs a truce can be reached, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned.
“We’re not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end,” Rubio said, adding that the US had “other priorities to focus on”.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and has placed a number of conditions on any potential ceasefire.
Rubio’s comments come just hours after Ukraine took the first step towards signing a minerals deal with Washington that intends to set up an investment fund for Ukraine’s reconstruction.
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US air strikes kill 58, injure 126 in Yemen
Air strikes by the United States on Yemen’s Ras Isa oil port have killed at least 58 people in what is one of the deadliest attacks on the country by US forces, Houthi-affiliated media report.
Al Masirah TV said the strikes on Thursday also wounded 126 people, citing the country’s Hodeidah Health Office.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the air strikes were intended to cut off the Houthis’ source of fuel and revenue.
“Today, US forces took action to eliminate this source of fuel for the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists,” CENTCOM said in a post on social media. “The objective of these strikes was to degrade the economic source of power of the Houthis,” it said.
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US senator meets man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
A US senator has met a man who Trump administration officials have acknowledged was deported in error from Maryland to a mega-prison in El Salvador.
Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen posted photos of his meeting with Kilmar Ábrego García, whom the administration has refused to return to the US despite an order from a federal judge.
After the meeting, which appeared to take place in a hotel, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said the detainee would remain in the country’s custody.
The White House has accused Mr Ábrego García of being a member of the transnational Salvadoran gang MS-13, a designated foreign terrorist organisation, which his lawyer denies.
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At least two killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Kharkiv, Sumy
A Russian missile strike has killed one person in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, with a separate drone attack killing another person in the nearby city of Sumy.
At least five children were among dozens of people injured in Friday morning’s attack on Kharkiv that damaged 15 residential buildings, a business and an educational facility, according to Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and emergency services.
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US weapons left in Afghanistan sold to militant groups, sources tell BBC
Half a millionweapons obtained by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been lost, sold or smuggled to militantgroups, sources have told the BBC – with the UN believing that some have fallen into the hands of al-Qaeda affiliates.
The Taliban took control of around one million weapons and pieces of military equipment – which had mostly been funded by the US – when it regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, according to a former Afghan official who spoke to the BBC anonymously.
As the Taliban advanced through Afghanistan in 2021, many Afghan soldiers surrendered or fled, abandoning their weapons and vehicles. Some equipment was simply left behind by US forces.
The cache included American-made firearms, such as M4 and M16 rifles, as well as other older weapons in Afghan possession that had been left behind from decades of conflict.
Sources have told the BBC that, at the closed-door UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committee in Doha late last year, the Taliban admitted that at least half of this equipment is now “unaccounted” for.
A person from the committee said they had verified with other sources that the whereabouts of half a million items was unknown.
‘Make West great again’: Trump, Meloni optimistic on EU tariffs deal
US President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have expressed optimism about a possible United States-European Union tariffs deal as the two leaders met at the White House, as economic uncertainly roils the market.
Meloni has cast herself as the only European who can de-escalate Trump’s trade war, and she has highlighted their conservative common ground, declaring that she wants to “make the West great again.”
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Five takeaways from Canada party leaders’ big TV debate
The leaders of Canada’s four major federal parties have squared off in their second and final debate ahead of this month’s general election.
But it was someone off stage who stole much of the spotlight – US President Donald Trump.
A big question heading into the two-hour forum was whether Liberal leader Mark Carney, who has been leading in the polls, would stumble.
Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, managed to survive Wednesday’s French debate despite being less proficient in the country’s second language.
On Thursday, he found himself placed on the spot repeatedly by his three opponents: Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet.
How to respond to Canada’s ongoing trade war with the US was a theme, but the debate also saw clashes on affordability, crime and the environment.
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US to screen social media of visa applicants who spent time in Gaza
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered the State Department to review the social media accounts of foreign applicants for United States visas who have visited the Gaza Strip in the past 18 years, according to an internal cable seen by the Reuters news agency.
The cable covers all immigrant and non-immigrant US visas – including students and tourists – of people who have spent “any length of time in an official or diplomatic capacity” in Gaza on or after January 1, 2007.
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Trump faces contempt risk: What happens if president violates court orders?
US President Donald Trump’s administration could be held in criminal contempt of court for disobeying an order to stop the deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members who could not challenge their deportation, federal judge James Boasberg said on Wednesday.
Boasberg has given the US government one week to remedy its dismissal of his order by providing the deported men with the right to due process in court. The Trump administration has appealed the ruling. The judge’s Wednesday ruling is the latest addition to the growing pile of legal challenges that Trump’s executive orders and actions are facing.
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‘My home is worth millions – but my own kids are priced out of this city’
Before Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and threatened its sovereignty, the Canadian psyche was consumed with another major issue: housing affordability. With an election on the horizon, voters are wondering if any party has a plan to fix what has become a generational problem.
Willow Yamauchi says she was just a “regular” person when she and her husband bought their family home in Vancouver 25 years ago for a modest sum of C$275,000 – around C$435,000 ($312,000; £236,400) in today’s dollars.
That same property is now worth several million.
In the city in Canada’s pacific northwest, Ms Yamauchi’s story is as common as the rainy weather. The average price of a detached home in Vancouver in 2000 was around C$350,000. Now, it is more than C$2m.
“My husband and I were very privileged to be able to purchase a house when we did,” the 52-year-old writer tells the BBC. As a member of Generation X, timing was on her side.
The same, she says, cannot be said for younger people, who – without “the bank of mom and dad” – are effectively priced out of the city they grew up in.
Vancouver, a cultural and economic hub with a population of less than one million, is often seen as the epicentre of Canada’s housing crisis. A report by Chapman University in California last year listed it among the top “impossibly unaffordable” cities in the world.