New Zealand has paused millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over wide-ranging deals that its smaller Pacific neighbour had made with China. Wellington, the Cook Islands’ biggest funder, said it was blindsided by the deals that were struck in February, covering infrastructure, tourism, technology and perhaps crucially, deep-sea mineral exploration. Fresh funding...
Trains between Glasgow and London have been disrupted by damage to overhead electric lines caused by a fallen tree in southern Scotland. Avanti West Coast said all lines were blocked between Lockerbie and Carstairs and services would be affected until 14:00. Some services scheduled to start in Glasgow now starting in Preston, Lancashire, and experiencing...
Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Bloomberg via Getty Images On Tuesday, Harvard University students held a protest in support of international students US President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered embassies to stop scheduling appointments for student visas as it prepares to expand social media vetting of such applicants. In a copy of a memo...
One of Japan’s busiest bullet train lines came to a halt after a snake tangled itself in a power line, causing a power outage. Tokaido Shinkansen trains running between Tokyo and Osaka were suspended from around 17:25 local time on Wednesday. Services resumed at around 19:00 local time, operator Central Japan Railway Company said, according...
More than 50 Venezuelan migrants had been “loaded on to buses, presumably headed to the airport” from Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to halt its plans to deport them early Saturday morning. “The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class...
Reuters Venezuelans who the Trump administration says are gang members have been deported to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador The US Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to pause the deportation of accused Venezuelan gang members under an 18th-century wartime law. A civil liberties group is suing the administration over planned deportations...
The Trump administration has halted construction of a vast wind farm off the coast of New York, which was designed to provide enough electricity to power 500,000 homes. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the Biden administration had “rushed through” the approval of the Empire Wind 1 project “without sufficient analysis”. The halt is a major...
Ashraf Padanna Thiruvananthapuram Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi Vivek Nair Devotees pull ornate wooden chariots bearing temple idols along a 2km-stretch of the airport’s runway For a few hours on a warm April day, jets paused and silence reclaimed the skies above the international airport in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the southern Indian state of...
“The court’s decision today should send a strong message to any and all anti-abortion politicians,” an attorney said. A federal court has ruled that Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and district attorneys cannot take legal action against people who help pregnant Alabamians access abortion care in states where it remains legal. The court determined that...