We look at the deals between some African nations and the Trump administration to accept deportees from the US. Several African nations, including Uganda, Rwanda, Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, and South Sudan, have agreed to accept US-deported migrants, many with no ties to Africa.
The vote, which begins on December 28, is being widely viewed as a ploy to legitimise the ruling military government. Campaigning has begun in military-run Myanmar, two months ahead of an election being widely dismissed at home and abroad as a transparent bid to confer legitimacy on the army's 2021 seizure of power. The military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) held events on Tuesday in the capital Naypyitaw and in Yangon, the country's largest city, to launch its campaign.
Hundreds of patients and staff massacred at a hospital; unarmed men of fighting age separated and shot at close range; civilians trying to flee stripped of their belongings and extorted for ransom; perpetrators filming much of the violence themselves. The reports of atrocities that have emerged from the Sudanese city of El Fasher since it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces last weekend follow a familiar pattern.
Her report, which examines the role of 63 states in Israel's actions in both Gaza and the West Bank, calls out the multilateral system for decades of moral and political failure in a colonial world order sustained by a global system of complicity. Through unlawful actions and deliberate omissions, too many states have harmed, founded and shielded Israel's militarised apartheid, allowing its settler colonial enterprise to metastasise into genocide, the ultimate crime against the indigenous people of Palestine, she said.
Vietnam's National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said the volume of rainfall in Hue marked the highest ever for a 24-hour period since the country started its record-keeping. The newspaper VNExpress reported that water levels in the Huong and Bo rivers, which flow through Hue, reached 5.25m (17.2 ft) on Monday afternoon, shattering the previous historical high recorded in 2020. As of Tuesday morning, water levels from both rivers have receded, but Hue remains submerged by more than one metre (3.3ft) of water.
The ideology of the RSS dominates India today. A former member - the prime minister, Narendra Modi - has governed for over a decade through a party closely linked to the RSS. That party is known by its acronym, the BJP, and it also governs states that cover nearly half of India. And they've passed laws that make it difficult to convert to another religion legally.
Under the terms of a United States-brokered ceasefire that took effect on October 10, Hamas has undertaken to return the bodies of all the 28 deceased captives. The remains of 16 had been handed over as of Monday. The 20 surviving captives were freed on October 13 as part of the truce. The release of the latest body comes as the families of some of the captives called on the Israeli government to pause the ceasefire if Hamas fails to locate and hand over the bodies.
Australia host a five-match T20 series against World Cup holders India as the teams prep for the 2026 edition. India's white-ball tour of Australia turns to the T20s as the sides play a five-game series in the format. The matches, which follow the one-day internationals (ODIs) between the sides, mark a crucial contest as the nations prepare for the 2026 T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.
