U.S. federal authorities said Wednesday that they detained 48 Haitian migrants who were abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.EX-DEA INFORMANT PLEADS GUILTY IN HAITIAN PRESIDENT’S 2021 ASSASSINATIONU.S. Customs and Border Protection said park rangers on Mona Island alerted authorities to the arrival…

The British government apologized Wednesday to relatives of the 97 Liverpool soccer fans killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.Downing Street’s apology comes amid claims officials are delaying their response to a 2017 report aimed at ensuring future tragedies are handled more transparently than the stadium crush incident.Calls to implement legal…

The opposition in Albania on Wednesday spoke up at the Constitutional Court against the ratification of a contentious deal the government has signed with Italy to jointly process some asylum applications of migrants arriving in Italy by sea.Last month, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni announced…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that his country’s military is now “encircling” the home of Hamas’ leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar. “Last night I said that our forces can reach anywhere in the Gaza Strip. Now they are encircling Sinwar’s house. So his house is not his…

Charities and NGOs supplying military aid to Ukraine’s armed forces are facing delays of several weeks to critical supplies of drones, electronics and pickup trucks due to border protests by Polish truckers, three industry sources told Reuters.Thousands of trucks carrying commercial goods have been backed up for weeks at Poland’s…

Dutch military police found 47 illegal migrants in a truck destined for the UK in Hook of Holland.The discovery was made on Tuesday night with the help of a sniffer dog trained to detect people.The Dutch truck driver was arrested on suspicion of people smuggling, and the migrants were taken…

Margarito Flores and his twin brother Pedro anxiously huddled in a lavish bathroom in South Zapopan, Mexico, as they prepared to call Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to discuss a shipment of heroin they had just received.As Margarito paced, Pedro pressed the record button on his audiotape device and placed the…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the Middle East, where he is meeting with the leaders of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia to shore up support from the major oil producers. Putin, who has not visited the region since July 2022, is meeting for talks with President…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister Wang Yi have agreed to build on recent progress in bilateral ties.Both officials referred to the meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping in San Francisco last month, highlighting the need to stabilize relations.Wang and Blinken also discussed the Israel-Hamas…

Italy has officially informed China that it is quitting the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), two government sources told Reuters on Wednesday, ending months of doubt over Rome’s future in the ambitious project.Italy in 2019 became the first and so far only major Western nation to join the program, dismissing…