Trump officials seek to overturn lower court rulings that found executive order banning asylum applications illegal The US supreme court agreed on Friday to consider Donald Trump’s ban on asylum at the US-Mexico border, a pillar of the Republican president’s far-reaching crackdown on immigration. The Trump administration wants to overturn lower court decisions that found the executive order banning asylum applications is illegal. Continue reading...
THE HAGUE, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Judges at the International Criminal Court have issued a decision to formally close part of the prosecutor's investigations into Afghanistan that previously looked at alleged crimes by US troops and to focusonly on actions of the Taliban since 2021, court documents show.
President Donald Trump signaled in a new interview that he could take military action against Cuba before he leaves office to topple the island’s communist regime.
A crushing local election result across the country has left South Africa's ruling ANC searching for answers. Experts say the vote reflects public frustration with service delivery failures — signaling a political shift.
BERLIN, Nov 13 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday urged US President Donald Trump not to spring any surprises during expected talks on Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China next week. "Some here in Dublin fear this could turn into a 'second Anchorage moment'," said Merz, referring to the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, Alaska, that European leaders had viewed as a potentially pivotal moment in efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
Security forces have killed 74 terrorists during intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan, said a statement by the military’s media wing on Friday. In a breakdown of the casualties, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said 35 terrorists were killed in Mir Ali, North Waziristan district, while eight others were killed in Orakzai Agency during the last 48 hours. “In a determined effort to eliminate terrorist threats and dismantle the khwarij networks, security forces are conducting a series of intelligence-based operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. These operations have been further expanded to the areas of Mir Ali and Orakzai,” said ISPR. Elaborating further, the military’s media wing said that “intense and fierce exchanges of fire” took place, dealing a “significant blow” to the networks operated by the khwarij in the areas. Fitna al Khawarij is a term the state uses for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. A large cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives, including homemade explosives and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), was also recovered during sanitisation, the military’s media wing said, adding that the recoveries had thwarted the “nefarious designs” of the terrorists to use the materials in terrorist activities. The ISPR further said that sanitisation operations continue in the areas to “eliminate holed up khwarij”. IBOs in Balochistan Security forces have killed 31 terrorists since Nov 3 during a “comprehensive intelligence-based area sanitisation operation” against Indian-backed Fitna al Khawarij and Fitna al Hindustan in the Kurram area of Quetta district, the military’s media wing said. The state has designated Balochistan-based terrorist groups as Fitna al-Hindustan to highlight India’s alleged role in terrorism and destabilisation across Pakistan. “During the conduct of these intelligence-based operations, multiple terrorist hideouts were effectively engaged and after multiple engagements, thirty one Indian sponsored khwarij were sent to hell. Weapons, ammunition and explosives were also recovered from the Khwariji locations,” said ISPR. “Sanitisation operations are being conducted to eliminate any other India-sponsored terrorist found in the area,” the statement read, adding that a relentless counterterrorism campaign under the vision “Azm e Istehkam” will continue at full pace to “wipe out [the] menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country”. The country’s security environment continued to show considerable volatility from October 30 to November 5, 2026, with renewed terrorist activity in parts of KP and the former tribal districts, alongside intensified counterterrorism operations and changing patterns of militant violence, according to Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS). Per the latest PICSS Weekly Insight, 49 militant attacks were recorded nationwide during the reporting period, compared with 31 in the preceding week. These incidents resulted in 25 fatalities and 21 injuries. On October 8, security forces killed nine terrorists in an IBO in North Waziristan, while a day earlier, 18 terrorists were eliminated in separate engagements in KP and Balochistan.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says speed restrictions on Starshield system made it harder for Ukraine to shoot down drones Europe live – latest updates Russia has attacked a hospital in the centre of Kyiv, close to several western embassies, after Volodymyr Zelenskyy said speed restrictions on SpaceX’s Starshield system had made it harder for Ukraine to shoot down enemy drones. Three people were injured when a drone smashed into the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics at 3am, hitting the second floor of the hospital and an adjoining 19th-century building. Continue reading...
VIENNA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The UN nuclear watchdog is "increasingly concerned" about a uranium-enrichment plant at Isfahan that Iran declared to it last year but has still not let the watchdog inspect, it said in a confidential report on Iran on Friday seen by Reuters. Iran has not let International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors return to any of its nuclear facilities bombed by Israel and the United States in a 12-day campaign in June last year that destroyed or badly damaged Iran's other uranium enrichment plants, the heart of its nuclear programme.
The projects reveal the scale of continuing demand for Nvidia hardware even as Washington seeks to curb Beijing's access to the technology powering the global AI boom
World leaders have set out competing positions and made clashing demands in two days of intense speech-making at the COP31 climate change talks in Turkey, leaving negotiators with a tough task to draft a meaningful deal that all can agree.
WASHINGTON: Pakistan called for the “immediate and unconditional” cessation of Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia on Thursday, as the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution renewing sanctions against individuals and entities threatening peace and stability in Yemen. The resolution also sought to restrict the Houthis’ access to components and chemicals used in manufacturing drones and missiles, and condemned their military escalation inside Yemen, as well as attacks against Saudi Arabia. Adopted by consensus, it extended the targeted asset freeze and travel ban on individuals threatening peace in Yemen. including those associated with the Houthis, until Nov 14, 2027, and renewed the mandate of the Panel of Experts monitoring the sanctions until Dec 15, 2027. The council demanded that the Houthis halt their military offensive, stop attacks against Saudi Arabia and end threats to commercial shipping. It also reaffirmed the arms embargo imposed under Resolution 2216 in April 2015, which has no specified expiry date. In his explanation for voting in favour of the resolution, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Haider Shah said: “Pakistan condemns in the strongest terms the continued Houthi terrorist attacks against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We stand in full and unwavering solidarity with the leadership, government and brotherly people of Saudi Arabia. Our support for the kingdom’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, security and stability is resolute. “Consistent with the United Nations Charter and international law, we support its legitimate right to defend its territory and protect its citizens and residents. We demand an immediate and unconditional cessation of these reprehensible Houthi attacks.” Ambassador Shah described accountability for individuals and entities threatening Yemen’s peace, security and stability as essential to creating conditions for lasting peace. The resolution The resolution seeks to address the Houthis’ ability to manufacture weapons locally using commercially available components and precursor chemicals. UN monitors have found that the group maintains its arsenal through smuggling and diversion of civilian-use equipment, gradually reducing its dependence on outside supplies. The Security Council tasked its members with deciding by January 11 what measures should be taken to prevent the Houthis from acquiring specified items, based on a list to be prepared by the expert panel. The resolution also expanded the panel’s responsibilities, asking it to examine revenues generated by the Houthis through their control of key economic sectors in Yemen and recommend ways to prevent those funds from being diverted to military activities. Another provision reaffirmed that the arbitrary detention of UN, diplomatic and humanitarian personnel by the Houthis could constitute grounds for additional sanctions. It followed the death in Houthi custody of Mohammad El-Shami, a Yemeni employee of the UN Human Rights Office who had been detained since June 6, 2024. His family was only recently informed that he had died more than a month earlier. Negotiations on resolution Negotiations on the resolution witnesses disagreements despite its eventual adoption by consensus. Britain had sought to restore language describing the Houthis as a terrorist group, a designation used in previous sanctions resolutions since 2022, but dropped the effort after Russia objected that it could undermine political negotiations. Bahrain, supported by the United States, also sought to reintroduce the language, but the proposal was not accommodated. China, backed by Russia, objected to the proposed list of dual-use items and the expansion of the expert panel’s mandate. Yemen’s Ambassador to the UN, Abdullah Al-Saadi, welcomed the council’s condemnation of the Houthis but regretted that it “was not able to agree on naming things with their names”. He argued that the absence of stronger language did not absolve the group’s supporters of responsibility. He also accused the Houthis of using starvation as a weapon of war and called for an end to their longstanding siege of Taiz. For its part, Pakistan backed stronger international action against the Houthis but also stressed that the conflict required a political settlement respecting Yemen’s sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity. Ambassador Shah called for an inclusive political process under the UN leadership. “An inclusive political process that is Yemeni-owned and Yemeni-led” was necessary to advance peace and stability, he said. He reaffirmed Pakistan’s readiness to support international efforts to restore peace and stability and address Yemen’s immense humanitarian suffering. On the implementation of sanctions, Pakistan emphasised that the Panel of Experts must operate strictly within the Security Council’s mandate, maintaining professionalism, impartiality and consistency. “Such an approach is necessary to strengthen the credibility and effectiveness of the panel’s work,” Ambassador Shah said. Pakistan also appreciated Britain’s constructive role in negotiating the resolution. The Houthis have been firing ballistic missiles and drones at Saudi airports, ports and oil installations in recent weeks. The Houthis seized Yemen’s capital Sanaa in 2014, prompting Saudi Arabia to intervene militarily the following year in support of the internationally recognised government. A UN-brokered truce in 2022 largely froze the conflict, but hostilities resumed earlier this year, with the Houthis launching missile and drone attacks on Saudi territory and Riyadh carrying out airstrikes in Yemen. The latest escalation has threatened the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key shipping route linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Additional input from Reuters
Nov 13 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they targeted a US early-warning radar in Bahrain, the first such claim of an attack on American military assets in a Gulf country since early September. The Guards said the strike was in retaliation for what they described as an air attack on a telecommunications tower in Iran's southern Sirik county, in Hormozgan province, according to Iranian state media.
Nov 12 (Reuters) - North Korean state-backed hackers have stolen more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over the past 18 months using surreptitiously recorded images of people which are then used to target their contacts, the FBI said Thursday.
Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who was also requested to testify, had previously praised the commerce secretary for his support and involvement in the industry.
