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Man accused of Mumbai terror attacks remanded in custody
A Pakistan-born Chicago businessman wanted in India for his role in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai city has been remanded in custody for 18 days.
Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian citizen, landed in Delhi on Thursday. India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) confirmed his extradition had been successful.
Indian authorities accuse 64-year-old Rana of aiding the Mumbai attacks by working with childhood friend David Headley to support Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani group blamed for the assault.
On 26 November 2008, 10 militants launched deadly attacks across Mumbai, killing 166 and injuring hundreds, before being stopped by security forces on 29 November.
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US special envoy meets Putin as Trump urges Russia to ‘get moving’ on Ukraine ceasefire
US envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Friday, as Donald Trump urged the Russian president to “get moving” on a ceasefire in Ukraine.
The Kremlin said the meeting lasted for more than four hours and focused on “aspects of a Ukrainian settlement”. The talks, Witkoff’s third with Putin this year, were described by special envoy Kirill Dmitriev as “productive”.
Trump has expressed frustration with Putin over the state of talks. On Friday, he wrote on social media: “Russia has to get moving. Too many people ere [sic] DYING, thousands a week, in a terrible and senseless war.”
It comes as Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg denied suggesting the country could be partitioned.
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At least 500 Gaza children killed since Israel broke truce: Official
At least 500 Palestinian children have been killed by sustained Israeli air attacks and bombardments in Gaza since Israel broke the ceasefire with Hamas last month, said Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson of the Gaza Civil Defence, while a UN official described the war-torn territory as a “post-apocalyptic” killing zone.
Meanwhile, Israeli air raids in Gaza on Saturday killed at least six people, including a child, bringing the death toll in the last 24 hours to more than 20. More than 1,500 people have been killed since Israel resumed its bombardment of Gaza on March 18, according to figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
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Judge allows Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation
A US judge has ruled the Trump administrationcan deportMahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate detained last month over his role in pro-Palestinian protests.
Mr Khalil, a permanent legal US resident, has not been charged with a crime. In a letter written from the facility, he has said his “arrest was a direct consequence” of speaking out for Palestinian rights.
The government has cited a Cold War-era immigration law, declaring that his presence in the US was adverse to American foreign policy interests.
The immigration court’s ruling does not mean Mr Khalil would be immediately removed from the country. The judge gave his lawyers until 23 April to appeal against the order.
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As an Israeli hostage turns 48, his wife waits for blue ticks on her messages
When Omri Miran finally opens his WhatsApp account, he’s going to receive a torrent of messages.
Photos of his daughters. Late night musings from his wife, Lishay, as she lies in bed. Snapshots from an Israeli family life that’s gone on for 18 painful months without him.
Lishay started sending the messages three weeks after Hamas gunmen violently snatched Omri from their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, on 7 October 2023.
She calls the chat Notes to Omri. She’s lost count of the number of messages she’s sent.
“My love, there are so many people you’ll need to meet when you come back,” she wrote at the end of October 2023.
“Amazing people who are helping me. Strangers who have become as close as can be.”
Three-and-a-half months later, she posted a message from the couple’s eldest daughter.
“Roni just said goodnight to you at the window like every night. She says you don’t hear her and she doesn’t see you… You’re really missing from her life and it’s getting harder for her to deal with your absence.”
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‘People might treat us differently’: Trump era leaves US tourists in Paris feeling shame
Strolling in bright sunshine across the immaculately raked gravel of Paris’s Tuileries gardens, Barbara and Rick Wilson from Dallas, Oregon, were not exactly in disguise. But earlier that morning, on their very first trip to France, Rick, 74, had taken an unusual precaution.
Before leaving his hotel, he’d taken a small piece of black tape and covered up the Stars and Stripes flag on the corner of his baseball cap.
“We’re sick about it. It’s horrible. Just horrible,” said Rick, as he and his wife contemplated the sudden sense of shame and embarrassment they said they now felt, as Americans, following President Trump’s abrupt moves on global trading tariffs.
Barbara, 70, even had a Canadian lapel pin in her pocket – a gift from another tourist – which she thought might come in useful if further subterfuge proved necessary.
“I’m disappointed in our country. We are upset about the tariffs,” she explained.
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Australia’s looming election brings housing crisis into focus
Buying or renting a home has become unaffordable for the average Australian, driven by a perfect storm of astronomical house prices, relentless rental increases and a lack of social housing.
With less than a month until the federal election, housing remains among the top issues for voters, and the country’s two major parties – the Labor Party and the Liberal-National Coalition – have both pledged to tackle the crisis in a range of ways.
Australians are already struggling under cost-of-living pressures and bracing for the effects of Donald Trump’s global tariff war. And it remains to be seen whether either party will sway voters with their promise of restoring the Australian dream.
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Iranian, US delegations set to begin high-stakes nuclear talks in Oman
Delegates from the United States and Iran are set to begin nuclear negotiations in the Omani capital, Muscat, as US President Donald Trump again warned Tehran of military action if a deal is not reached.
“I want them not to have a nuclear weapon. I want Iran to be a wonderful, great, happy country, but they can’t have a nuclear weapon,” Trump told reporters on board Air Force One on his way to Florida on Friday night.
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Remains of dozens of Indigenous ancestors returned to Australia
The remains of 36 Indigenous ancestors will be returned to Australia, in the latest repatriation of bodies taken from their traditional lands.
Six of the ancestors’ bodies were formally returned to their Queensland communities – Woppaburra, Warrgamay, Wuthathi and Yadhaighana – at a ceremony at London’s Natural History Museum.
The Australian government will take care of the other ancestors’ remains until their traditional custodians can be found.
The remains of Indigenous people were taken from Australia by a range of people, including scientists and explorers, following Britain’s colonisation of the country in the 18th Century.
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Government aims to take control of British Steel
Parliament has been recalled for a rare Saturday sitting to pass an emergency law aimed at saving British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant from imminent closure.
Sir Keir Starmer said the legislation would allow ministers to “take control” of the Lincolnshire site and stop its Chinese owner from closing its blast furnaces.
The move opens the door to a full nationalisation of the company at a later stage, with the prime minister saying “all options” remained on the table.
Talks have been taking place this week to keep production going at the firm, after owners Jingye said its blast furnaces were “no longer financially sustainable”.
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Trump to end protected status for Afghans and Cameroonians
Thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians will have their temporary deportation protections terminated, the US Department of Homeland Security has said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem found the conditions in Afghanistan and Cameroon no longer merited US protections, according to a statement from DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
An estimated 14,600 Afghans previously eligible for temporary protected status (TPS) are now set to lose it in May, while some 7,900 Cameroonians will lose it in June.
It comes on the same day a US judge ruled that the Trump administration could deport a university graduate, detained last month over his role in pro-Palestinian protests.