Afghanistan’s Taliban regime said they have carried out strikes on targets along the border with Pakistan, injuring several people in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province. Pakistan’s military said it had shot down four rudimentary drones and warned any further provocation “would receive a befitting response”. The BBC has been unable to independently confirm the attack. The…
In each of these cases, Trump and his team had pushed the boundaries of presidential authority, often incorporating novel or seldom-used legal theories to back up their actions. Trump’s birthright citizenship revocation cut against more than 125 years of Supreme Court precedent interpreting what most legal scholars thought was clear language in the US constitution….
There are plans in Berlin to tear down one of the last remnants of Adolf Hitler’s power centre. Almost nothing remains of the Nazi leader’s chancellery in central Berlin, except a bunker. But now there are plans to demolish it to build flats and offices. The New Reich Chancellery, built by Hitler’s favourite architect Albert…
A three-year-old boy has been pulled alive from the rubble six days after the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, a Jordanian rescue team has said. Video footage shows rescuers cheering as the child, named as Klieber Morán by the country’s interim president, is pulled from wreckage in La Guaira state. Delcy Rodríguez described the child’s rescue…
The Supreme Court has ruled that babies born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship, rejecting Donald Trump’s bid to end the 150-year-old policy. In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that children born in the US “to parents unlawfully or temporarily present” are “citizens at birth” under the 14th Amendment….
A man has been found dead as an out-of-control wildfire burns in northern Greece, forcing residents of a nearby village to evacuate. The man’s body was found in a charred area near Liti, about 15km (nine miles) north-west of the city of Thessaloniki, where more than 100 firefighters are working to contain the blaze. A…
A Republican congressman who missed dozens of votes while on unexplained medical leave from the House of Representatives told fellow lawmakers he was in hospital for depression during his 142-day absence. “I was given the diagnosis of depression,” New Jersey’s Tom Kean said in remarks after returning to work on Tuesday. “It is physical, it…
Fourteen children died after the roof of a building near Lahore collapsed on top of them, officials say. The incident happened at a private tuition centre in the Kahna suburb of the Pakistani city. Young children under the age of 10 are among those to have been taken from the scene. Authorities launched an investigation…
Right-wing extremists remain the greatest threat to German democracy and their number increased significantly to 58,700 last year, the country’s domestic intelligence service says. That number is an increase of more than 8,000 on the previous year, the agency says in its annual report, adding that extreme left-wing violence is also on the rise and…
The US Supreme Court has ruled that states can ban transgender women from competing in female school and college sports. The court considered cases from students in two different states who had challenged bans on participation. The two states, Idaho and West Virginia, enacted laws that required public school and college sports teams to compete…