Mexico’s president has warned US gunmakers they could face fresh legal action as accomplices of organized crime if Washington designates the country’s cartels as terrorist groups. The Latin American country, which is under mounting pressure from Donald Trump to curb illegal drug smuggling, wants its neighbor to crack down on firearms trafficking in the other…
Debris flows brought on by the strongest atmospheric river of the season swept a car off a southern California highway and into the ocean and left roads submerged in sludge. California is in the midst of its rainy season and strong storms are not necessarily unusual for this time of year. But the damaging weather…
No 10: Starmer spoke with Donald Trump last night during meeting with president’s special enovy to UK Downing Street has issued a read-out of a meeting that prime minister Keir Starmer held last night with Donald Trump’s special envoy to the UK, former television producer Mark Burnett, during which, it says, Starmer spoke to the…
Fires that have razed 90,000 hectares of remote Tasmanian wilderness, including world-heritage listed areas and parts of the famous Overland walking track, could burn for weeks as firefighters battle to contain blazes in remote terrain. By late on Friday, more than 20 fires – which were sparked by dry lightning strikes on 3 February –…
The US has sent undocumented immigrants from several Asian countries whose governments have refused to accept them to Panama, in a move signalling an intensification of the Trump administration’s deportation effort. A military plane carrying 119 immigrants from countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Pakistan flew from California to Panama City…
Rebels from the Rwandan-backed M23 group have seized the strategically important airport serving Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following a rapid advance south in recent days. The airport in the town of Kavumu, where Congolese troops had been positioned, is the last military obstacle to the…