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Donald Trump smiles for the camera in the White House and he holds up a Trump Gold Card
Trump launches $1m 'gold card' immigration visas
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has launched a scheme offering fast-tracked US visas to wealthy foreigners who can pay at least $1m (£750,000).The card will give buyers a "direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people. SO EXCITING! Our Great American Companies can finally keep their invaluable Talent," Trump said on social media on Wednesday.The Trump Gold Card, which was first announced earlier this year, is a US visa awarded to those who can demonstrate they will provide a "substantial benefit" to the country, according to the scheme's official website.It comes as Washington intensifies its immigration crackdown, including raising work visa fees and deporting undocumented migrants.The Gold Card scheme promises US residency in "record time" and will require a...
December 11, 2025

Trump launches $1m 'gold card' immigration visas

A drone picture shows the destruction after an explosion at the seaport of Beirut, 5 August, 2020
Bulgarian court rejects extradition of Russian linked to Beirut port blast
SOFIA — A Bulgarian court rejected Lebanon's request on Wednesday to extradite the owner of a ship linked to a cargo of ammonium nitrate at the centre of the massive 2020 port explosion in Beirut.Igor Grechushkin, 48, who holds Russian and Cypriot citizenship, was arrested in Sofia in September on an Interpol red notice.Lebanon has asked Bulgaria to extradite him in connection with blast on 4 August 2020, which killed at least 218 people and injured more than 6,000, and devastated large swathes of the area around Beirut’s port, causing billions of dollars in damage."The court rejected Lebanon’s request to extradite Igor Grechushkin, ruling that the Lebanese authorities had not provided adequate assurances that he would be protected from the death penalty or that any such...
December 11, 2025

Bulgarian court rejects extradition of Russian linked to Beirut port blast

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks to the media in Geneva, 10 December, 2025
UN human rights office in 'survival mode' with €77m budget shortfall
GENEVA — The UN human rights chief said on Wednesday that his office is facing a $90 million (€77 million) funding shortfall this year and staff cuts would amount to around 300 posts, or about 15%, over the course of the year.Volker Türk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, says the Geneva-based office was in "survival mode" at a time when major donors, including the UK, Finland, France and the United States, have lowered their contributions."Our resources have been slashed along with funding for human rights organisations, including at the grassroots level around the world," Türk told reporters on Human Rights Day."We are in survival mode.""My office has had about $90 million less than we needed this year, which means around 300 jobs have been lost and essential work has had...
December 11, 2025

UN human rights office in 'survival mode' with €77m budget shortfall

Luis Arce
Bolivia detains former president Arce amid probe into alleged embezzlement
LA PAZ — Bolivia's former president Luis Arce has been detained by police, Reuters reported citing a former member of his cabinet.Arce, who left office last month, may have been called in to testify in relation to an investigation into alleged embezzlement that happened while he was serving as economy minister under former President Evo Morales, Maria Nela Prada, who served as minister to the presidency under Arce, told journalists.“Of course he’s innocent,” Prada told journalists on Wednesday. “This has been a total abuse of power. We hope this case is not being taken as an opportunity to carry out political persecution.”She added that he had not been notified or ordered to appear. “They simply took him,” she said. Reuters said it was not able to independently verify...
December 11, 2025

Bolivia detains former president Arce amid probe into alleged embezzlement

President Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine presents response to US peace plan
KYIV — Ukraine delivered its response to the latest US-drafted peace proposal aimed at ending the war with Russia to the Trump administration on Wednesday, US and Ukrainian officials told CNN, as the contours of a tenuous potential deal take shape and the US president continues to make clear he wants the conflict resolved quickly.Efforts to end the yearslong war have sharply accelerated in recent weeks. President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested a solution could soon be “figured out,” telling reporters at the White House that “a lot of people say it’s closer than it’s ever been.”He said he “discussed Ukraine in pretty strong words” with his British, French and German counterparts, whom he said had floated the idea of Trump flying to Europe for a meeting, along with...
December 11, 2025

Ukraine presents response to US peace plan

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado waves from the balcony at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway, 11 December 2025. — EPA
Venezuelan opposition leader makes first public appearance after months in hiding
OSLO — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who has been in hiding for months, has told the BBC that she knows "exactly the risks" she's taking by travelling to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize.Machado appeared in Oslo in the middle of the night, waving from the balcony of a hotel. It was the first time she has been seen in public since January.She made the covert journey despite a travel ban and a threat from the Venezuelan government that she would be labelled as a fugitive if she made the trip.In an emotional moment, Machado waved to cheering supporters who had gathered outside the Norwegian capital's Grand Hotel, blowing them kisses and singing with them.To their delight, she then came outside and greeted them in person, climbing over the security...
December 11, 2025

Venezuelan opposition leader makes first public appearance after months in hiding

Carmen Lau, activist in exile and former Pro-democratic District Councilor of Hong Kong, seen making speeches during the rally outside Downing Street in 2022
Exiled Hong Kong activist target of harassment campaign
LONDON — A high-profile Hong Kong pro-democracy activist living in the UK has been the target of a campaign of harassment involving letters containing fake, sexually explicit images of her sent from China to her neighbors.Carmen Lau, 30, who fled Hong Kong four years ago, told the BBC she was "shocked" as the letters, delivered to addresses in Maidenhead in Kent, included her name and images made to look like she was either naked or in underwear and offering sexual services."The letters had a couple of very unpleasant images, AI-generated or photo-shopped, where they put my face on those images, portraying me as a sex-worker," she said.The existence of the letters was first reported by the Guardian.The first she knew about the letters was when the local MP, Liberal Democrat Joshua...
December 11, 2025

Exiled Hong Kong activist target of harassment campaign

Nicolas Sarkozy arriving at a book signing event on Wednesday
The hardest bed he ever felt: Former French president recounts his 20 days behind bars
PARIS — Twenty days, 213 pages.For every 24 hours behind bars, Nicolas Sarkozy wrote more than 10 pages of his new book recounting his stint in Paris’ La Santé Prison.“It could have been a budget hotel, if you ignored the armored door with its eyehole,” the former French president recalls in the book, which hit shelves Wednesday, one month after he left jail on November 10.Prison was “hell,” Sarkozy writes in “Diary of a Prisoner,” which rides the waves of intense public interest and scrutiny around his September conviction for criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya.He was released early from his five-year sentence in November pending his appeal.The view out of his window was blocked by plastic panels, Sarkozy says of his time...
December 11, 2025

The hardest bed he ever felt: Former French president recounts his 20 days behind bars

Park Na-rae, one of the country's most successful female comedians, has now left her popular variety shows amid allegations of workplace bullying
String of celebrity scandals renews debate on South Korea's 'cancel culture'
SEOUL — In a matter of days, three big names in South Korea's entertainment industry have made headlines in separate scandals that could derail their careers.The allegations that have embroiled comedians Park Na-rae and Cho Sae-ho, as well as veteran actor Cho Jin-woong, are all different — ranging from workplace abuse to previous teenage detention to associations with a gang member.But the results have been the same: departures from the television screens where they had worked their way up to become household names.The scandals have also raised questions about the standards to which South Korea's public figures are held — especially in the entertainment industry.Park Na-rae, one of the country's most successful female comedians, made headlines last week when two of...
December 11, 2025

String of celebrity scandals renews debate on South Korea's 'cancel culture'

Tasmanian student Florence Brodribb — known as Flossie — is a big supporter of the ban
Kids locked out of social media apps after Australia's world-first ban
SYDNEY — Australia's world-first social media ban for children has taken effect, with throngs of teenagers waking up to find their accounts have gone dark.Others tell BBC they have already snuck past barriers and will continue scrolling and posting freely until they are caught.The new law means social media firms - including Meta, TikTok and YouTube - must take "reasonable steps" to ensure Australians aged under 16 don't hold accounts on their platforms.The ban, eyed with excitement by global leaders and trepidation by tech companies, was justified as necessary to protect children from harmful content and algorithms - though critics have argued blanket prohibition is neither practical nor wise.This landmark policy has been one of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's pet...
December 10, 2025

Kids locked out of social media apps after Australia's world-first ban

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