A woman in France was on Friday sentenced to life jail for starving her own daughter to death. The girl, Amandine died of a heart attack in 2020 at the age of 13 after years of abuse. Sandrine Pissarra, 54, was sent to prison by a court in the southern city of Montpellier for inflicting acts of torture and barbarity on Amandine. She must serve a minimum of 20 years…

The Donald Trump administration is issuing a new round of heavy-handed measures that could rapidly deport immigrants who entered the United States through recently established legal pathways, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo obtained by the New York Times. The directive, signed on Friday by the acting homeland security secretary, Benjamine Huffman, grants Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials unprecedented authority to expedite deportations for immigrants…

*Final female Israeli civilian held in Gaza not on list Hamas has published the names of four female Israeli soldiers being held captive in Gaza who it says it plans to release this weekend as part of the continuing ceasefire agreement between the armed group and Israel. In the hours following the release of the names, however, the office of Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to indicate it believed Hamas had breached…

…President called her ”Radical-left hard-line Trump hater.” Following the fallout of her address to President Donald Trump during a prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral Tuesday, the Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde joined NPR’s ”All Things Considered” on Friday to discuss her hope that the new administration would show compassion toward vulnerable communities following a sermon she made on Tuesday. Addressing concerns that the President did not take her address…

Axel Rudakubana was able to view Australian clip before murdering three young children despite pleas from authorities Elon Musk’s social media platform X has refused to remove a video that Axel Rudakubana watched minutes before murdering three young children, despite numerous requests from authorities in Australia and the UK. Australian internet regulator eSafety said on Friday it noted with “great sadness” that the video — which shows the violent stabbing…

The dollar index fell 0.3 per cent to its lowest level since mid-December, after Trump said he would “rather not” hit China with tariffs. He also said he knew rates “much better” than the Federal Reserve and would like to see them fall “a lot”. The euro, which has fallen sharply in recent months, jumped 0.6 per cent to $1.047, putting it on course for its largest weekly gain since…

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order banning transgender women from being housed in female prisons across the United States. He also ordered that any medical treatments related to gender transition be halted. -The ban was part of a broader executive order by Trump aimed at limiting the federal government’s recognition of gender to an individual’s biological sex at birth. The order also impacts transgender immigration detainees and is…

Come make your product in America, and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on Earth – Donald Trump President Donald Trump has called on Chinese President Xi Jinping to leverage China’s influence to help end the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Speaking via video link at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump stated that China holds significant power over the conflict and revealed…

A United States federal district court has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. John C. Coughenour, US district judge, gave the ruling on Thursday, January 23, 2025. The order to end birthright citizenship had originally been slated to take effect on February 19 but 18 states’ attorneys general filed lawsuits on Tuesday challenging it. The Democratic officials also filed a request asking the court to…

Bangladesh released 178 former paramilitary troops from prison on Thursday, nearly 16 years after their arrest for involvement in a violent mutiny that claimed the lives of dozens of senior army officers. The mutiny, which erupted in 2009, was led by disgruntled members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), who brutally murdered 74 people during a two-day rebellion. The revolt began in the capital, Dhaka, and rapidly spread across the country,…

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to once again designate Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels a “foreign terrorist organisation,” the White House announced Wednesday. When former president Joe Biden took over from Trump in 2021, he removed the designation that Trump had signed near the end of his first term. Biden’s move came in response to concern from aid groups that they would need to pull out of Yemen…

The gesture was controversial enough, but now come the sub-controversies: Elon Musk is trolling Wikipedia and encouraging its defunding after a description of his recent flourish, seen by some as a Hitler salute, appeared on the encyclopedic website. The fight pits two of the internet’s best-known tech giants against each other — and highlights the starkly different ethos behind Musk’s X social media site and Wikipedia, founded by American entrepreneur…