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US President Donald Trump has implemented a wide-ranging crackdown on some of America's most elite universities, including Harvard

Trump administration to 'aggressively' revoke visas of Chinese students

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration says it will "aggressively" revoke the visas of Chinese students studying in the US.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement the move would include "those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields".Criteria will also be revised to "enhance scrutiny" of future visa applicants from China and Hong Kong, Rubio added.Relations between Beijing and Washington have plummeted in recent months as a tit-for-tat trade war erupted between the two superpowers sparked by Trump's tariffs.On Monday, Rubio, who is America's top diplomat, ordered US embassies around the world to stop scheduling appointments for student visas as the state department prepares to expand...

May 29, 2025

Trump administration to 'aggressively' revoke visas of Chinese students

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced the Kremlin's proposal to resume direct negotiations with Ukraine with second round of Istanbul talks, Moscow, May 28, 2025

Russia proposes second round of peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul

MOSCOW — Russia is proposing to hold a second round of talks aimed at finding a way to bring their invasion of Ukraine to an end. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that the Kremlin is prepared to engage in further negotiations with Kyiv in Istanbul on 2 June.The Russian top diplomat also stated that Moscow has come up with a list of issues it deems integral to the war. Lavrov says that Russia has come up with ways to overcome what he called “root causes of the crisis” in a corresponding memorandum.“The Russian side, as agreed, promptly developed a corresponding memorandum, which sets out our position on all aspects of reliably overcoming the root causes of the crisis (with Ukraine),” said Lavrov.“Our delegation, headed by (Russian presidential aide) Vladimir...

May 29, 2025

Russia proposes second round of peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul

Trump said they would find out in two weeks whether or not Putin was tapping us along'

Trump appears to set Putin 'two-week' deadline on Ukraine

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has appeared to set a two-week deadline for Vladimir Putin, threatening a different response if the Russian counterpart was still stringing him along.As the Kremlin escalated its attacks on Ukraine, Trump was asked in the Oval Office on Wednesday if he thought Putin wanted to end the war."I can't tell you that, but I'll let you know in about two weeks," Trump told reporters, the latest amid a string of critical public remarks made by Trump about Putin.Since Sunday, Trump has written multiple posts on social media saying that Putin has gone "absolutely crazy" and is "playing with fire" after Russia intensified its attacks on Ukraine.The bombardments by Russia are said to have been some of the largest and...

May 29, 2025

Trump appears to set Putin 'two-week' deadline on Ukraine

Glacier collapse swallows part of Blatten

Glacier collapse buries most of Swiss village

BERN — The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley.Although the village had been evacuated some days ago because of fears the Birch glacier was disintegrating, one person has been reported missing, and many homes have been completely flattened.Blatten's mayor, Matthias Bellwald, said "the unimaginable has happened" but promised the village still had a future.Local authorities have requested support from the Swiss army's disaster relief unit and members of the Swiss government are on their way to the scene.The disaster that has befallen Blatten is the worst nightmare for communities across the Alps.The village's 300 inhabitants had to leave their homes on 19 May after geologists monitoring the...

May 29, 2025

Glacier collapse buries most of Swiss village

Aracely with her two daughters waited at a migrant shelter in Buffalo, New York while their case was being reviewed by a Canadian court

Fleeing US deportations, it took this family three tries to enter Canada

BUFFALO — The Rainbow Bridge, which crosses the Niagara River between the United States and Canada, has for decades been a symbol of peace connecting two countries.But for Araceli, a Salvadorian migrant, and her family, the bridge represented a seemingly insurmountable hurdle.Along with her partner and two daughters, aged four and 14, the family first attempted to cross the bridge on 17 March.They had arrived with a suitcase and documents that they believed assured them they would soon be reunited with Araceli's siblings on Canadian soil and escape the threat of US President Donald Trump's mass deportations.But the plan failed. Not just once, but twice.While a third attempt proved successful, immigration experts and official statistics point to a rise of asylum seekers at the...

May 29, 2025

Fleeing US deportations, it took this family three tries to enter Canada

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Students say they 'regret' applying to US schools after visa changes

SINGAPORE — Students around the world are anxious and in limbo, they say, as the Trump administration makes plans to temporarily halt US student visa appointments.An official memo seen by BBC's US partner CBS ordered a temporary pause in appointments as the state department prepares to increase social media vetting of applicants for student and foreign exchange visas.It is part of a wide-ranging crackdown by US President Donald Trump on some of America's most elite universities, which he sees as overly liberal.For students, the changes have brought widespread uncertainty, with visa appointments at US embassies now unavailable and delays that could leave scholarships up in the air.Some students told the BBC that the confusion has even left them wishing they had applied to schools...

May 29, 2025

Students say they 'regret' applying to US schools after visa changes

Fibre optic drones are a terrifying new danger on Ukraine's front lines

The terrifying new weapon changing the war in Ukraine

Yogita LimayeRODYNSKE — An acrid smell hangs over the town of Rodynske. A couple of minutes after we drive into the city we see where it's coming from.A 250kg glide bomb has ripped through the town's main administrative building, and taken down three residential blocks. We're visiting a day after the bomb struck, but parts of the wreckage are still smoking. From the edges of the town we hear the sound of artillery fire, and of gunshots – Ukrainian soldiers shooting down drones.Rodynske is about 15km (9 miles) north of the embattled city of Pokrovsk. Russia has been trying to capture it from the south since the autumn of last year, but Ukrainian forces have so far managed to stop Russian soldiers from marching in.So Russia has changed tactics, moving instead to encircle the...

May 29, 2025

The terrifying new weapon changing the war in Ukraine

US President Donald Trump criticized Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin was quick to react

Top Kremlin aide says Trump ‘not sufficiently informed’ about Ukraine after US president lashes out at Putin

MOSCOW — A top Kremlin aide has accused Donald Trump of being “not sufficiently informed” about the situation in Ukraine after the US president said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was “playing with fire.”Putin aide Yury Ushakov was reacting to Trump’s Truth Social post on Tuesday, in which the president said: “What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!”Ushakov, a former Russian ambassador to Washington who was part of the negotiating team that Moscow sent to Saudi Arabia to meet US officials earlier this year, then questioned the accuracy of the information Trump receives.“Trump says a lot of things. Naturally, we read and monitor all...

May 29, 2025

Top Kremlin aide says Trump ‘not sufficiently informed’ about Ukraine after US president lashes out at Putin

Elon Musk breaks with Trump over ‘big beautiful bill,’ calls it a blow to deficit cuts

WASHINGTON — A prominent alliance at the heart of U.S. political disruption is showing signs of strain as Elon Musk publicly criticized President Donald Trump’s marquee legislation, branding the “big beautiful bill” a “massive spending package” that undermines his government efficiency agenda.Musk, who served as a senior adviser and backed Trump’s 2024 campaign with at least $250 million, said he was “disappointed” by the bill’s deficit implications.In an interview aired Tuesday on CBS, he argued that the legislation contradicts the goals of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which he led and envisioned as a driver of $1 trillion in federal cuts.“I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful,” Musk said. “But I don’t know if it can be both.”The...

May 28, 2025

Elon Musk breaks with Trump over ‘big beautiful bill,’ calls it a blow to deficit cuts

WHO says COVID-19 cases rising globally due to new NB.1.8.1 variant

GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that a new COVID-19 variant, designated NB.1.8.1, may be contributing to rising case numbers in parts of the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and western Pacific regions.Detected in mid-May in nearly 11% of globally sequenced samples, the NB.1.8.1 variant has also surfaced in U.S. airports, identified in travelers arriving from affected regions to states including California, Washington, Virginia, and New York.The WHO has classified the variant as a “variant under monitoring,” stressing that it currently poses a low public health risk.Initial data indicate that existing vaccines remain effective, and no evidence suggests the strain causes more severe illness than previous variants.Meanwhile, the dominant global variant...

May 28, 2025

WHO says COVID-19 cases rising globally due to new NB.1.8.1 variant

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