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- South Africa criticises US plan to accept white Afrikaners as refugeeson 9 May 2025 at 9:09 PM
Reports say the first set of white South Africans could arrive in the US next week.
- Mercenary and coup plotter Simon Mann dieson 9 May 2025 at 8:06 PM
He was arrested in 2004 after being part of a failed coup to overthrow Equatorial Guinea’s ruler.
- Mexico sues Google over ‘Gulf of America’ name changeon 9 May 2025 at 6:10 PM
President Sheinbaum argues Trump’s executive order applies only to the US portion of the continental shelf.
- Turkish Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to be releasedon 9 May 2025 at 5:20 PM
Her arrest follows the White House’s crackdown on what it has classified as antisemitism on US campuses.
- Watch: Steve Rosenberg reports from Russia’s Red Square on Victory Dayon 9 May 2025 at 4:52 PM
Vladimir Putin leads commemorations as Moscow marks its annual parade.