The boss of Berlin Airport has said non-EU nationals arriving in the German capital are having to queue for up to two hours under a new digital border system, and warned the situation is “not bearable over the summer”. Aletta von Massenbach told the BBC that at one terminal in Berlin, where Ryanair and Wizz…
The split is not just about SSPX’s desire to conduct Mass only in Latin. The Society, founded by controversial French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970, has always wanted to preserve a kind of medieval mystique in which priests, bishops, cardinals, and the Mass itself are seen as somehow closer to God, and therefore separate from…
Trump’s various lawsuits against media companies netted him $86.5m last year. The largest payout came from Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram. The filing shows that the company gave the president $24.5m to settle a lawsuit over Trump’s accounts being suspended in the wake of the riots in the Washington DC on 6 January…
When one of China’s biggest stand-up comedians opened his show with a joke about the extraordinarily long rule of the country’s leader Xi Jinping, it drew a cheer, alongside a smattering of approving profanities. “This is fire,” a man shouted in Mandarin. Few in China would dare to joke about Xi, who has increasingly centralised…
The family of flight passenger Daniel Alejandro Nunez, 28 – who’d also called his mother upon returning to Venezuela while still in state custody – was struggling to make sense of conflicting reports, too. “We’ve searched for him in hospitals, in morgues – everywhere,” his stepfather, Jose Alejandro Abache, told BBC Mundo. For families already…
The desperation of patients haunts Gaza’s hospitals – their exterior walls eaten away by gunfire and Israeli strikes, the health-care system inside them still unrepaired. Eight months after the ceasefire deal instructed that “full aid” be sent into the Gaza Strip, aid workers say the continued lack of essential medicines and equipment has meant doctors…
Jamal’s case is not isolated. Law enforcement officers in Europe have told us they know of 15 people smugglers with convictions from courts in France, Germany and Belgium, who they believe are now living in the UK and claiming asylum under false names. We learned about one man convicted in France, who is now living…
A couple has been taken into custody after climbing the very top of New York City’s Empire State Building, before getting engaged. Russian nationals Angela Nikolau, 33, and Ivan Beerkus, 32, unfurled a large banner at the tip of the skyscraper’s needle that read: “When the power of love beats the love of power the…
Şafak Bozkurt, who chairs the Van Bar Association Human Rights Centre Migration and Asylum Commission, said he was familiar with this type of push-back in the region, and aware of cases of hypothermia. Afghan migrants have reported multiple similar incidents since 2021, when the Taliban seized power in Kabul, according to Turkey-based activist Zakira Hikmat….
Russian forces have launched a major drone and missile air attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight, killing at least one person. Several neighbourhoods were evacuated as airstrikes rocked buildings throughout the city, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Russia was preparing for a “massive” attack. Some people remain trapped under the rubble of a…