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A spectre hangs over Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where diplomats, scientists and activists are gathered for the UN’s annual climate-change summit. Last time he was in office Donald Trump, a fossil-fuel booster and climate-science denier, yanked America out of the UN’s Paris climate agreement (it later rejoined). The president-elect has vowed to do so again on his first day back in office.

Italy’s much-debated program of sending asylum seekers to Albania restarted on Sunday, the Italian Interior Ministry said, months after judges blocked the first transfers there.An Italian Navy vessel was carrying 49 people to centers Italy built in Albania, the ministry said. A ministry spokeswoman added that those being transferred had been intercepted at sea before they reached Italy.Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy has made the idea of holding new asylum seekers outside the country for assessment a flagship policy of her administration, describing it as an innovative way to fight illegal immigration and to deter migrants from taking risky…

Alice Cuddy & Jon DonnisonBBC News, JerusalemReutersUS President Donald Trump has said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza.Trump said he had made the request to Jordan’s King Abdullah and planned to ask Egypt’s president on Sunday, too. Describing Gaza as a “demolition site”, Trump said: “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing”. He added that the move “could be temporary” or “could be long-term”. The comments will likely outrage Palestinians in Gaza, for whom it is their home. Both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority…

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Colombia’s left-wing President Gustavo Petro said Sunday he would not allow US migrant deportation flights access to his country’s airspace.”The United States cannot treat Colombian migrants as criminals. I forbid entry to our territory to US planes carrying Colombian migrants,” Petro wrote on X, adding they would only be accepted once Washington had created a protocol ensuring the “dignified treatment” of the migrants.Petro added in a later post that he had “turned back US military planes that were coming with Colombian migrants,” without giving further details.AFP could not immediately receive confirmation from the United States that Colombian-bound deportation flights had…

The New York Jets put together two of the most important pieces of their offseason with the hirings of Aaron Glenn as head coach and Darren Mougey as general manager.Next on the list? Quarterback.SIGN UP FOR TUBI AND STREAM SUPER BOWL LIX FOR FREE New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers on the field against the Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, Dec. 8, 2024. (Sam Navarro-Imagn Images)Aaron Rodgers played one of the two seasons he was with the Jets. The first season ended just as quickly as it began for the quarterback as he tore his Achilles…

Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko said he had “no regrets” about allowing Russia to use his country to invade Ukraine, amid condemnation of the “sham” presidential vote almost certain to extend his 31 years of authoritarian rule.Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said on Sunday that the vote was a “bitter day for all those who long for freedom and democracy”.“The people of Belarus had no choice. Instead of free and fair elections and a life without fear and arbitrariness, they experience oppression, repression and human rights violations on a daily basis,” she said, ahead of exit polls that showed Lukashenko winning…

Colombia will not accept deportation flights from the United States until the Trump administration provides a process to treat Colombian migrants with “dignity and respect,” the country’s president, Gustavo Petro, said on Sunday in a series of posts on X.Mr. Petro also said that Colombia had already turned away military planes carrying Colombian deportees. While other countries in Latin America have raised concerns about President Trump’s sweeping deportation plans, Colombia appears to be the first to explicitly refuse to cooperate.“I cannot make migrants stay in a country that does not want them,” Mr. Petro wrote, “but if that country sends…

Xbox is on the path to becoming the world’s biggest publisher, and it seems like Phil Spencer is currently doing the PR rounds. The result has been a few snippets of interesting info, like the fact that Microsoft plans on bringing games to the Switch 2. Now in another interview hosted by Destin Legarie on his Patreon page, Spencer was asked if he could confirm Starfield would remain an exclusive. He shared a clip of Spencer’s response on his X page. Phil Spencer on Starfield exclusivityDestin: “Can you solidify that Starfield is staying put for the time being?”Spencer: “No.”Source: https://t.co/ccNXLG6GU5…

It’s election day in Belarus – with Alexander Lukashenko set to continue his 31-year-long rule of the country. BBC Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg, reports from outside the polling station where the leader once dubbed “Europe’s last dictator” cast his ballot, before giving a four-hour-long press conference. Viral Right Now