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Spain’s government has approved an amnesty programme that will allow an estimated 500,000 undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status. The measure, passed on Tuesday by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s administration, will open the way for applications on April 16. The decree makes Spain an outlier in Europe, as well as many other parts of the world, with anti-immigration sentiments ...

Dolly Begum has made history in Canadian politics by becoming the first person of Bangladeshi origin to be elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in a federal by-election. She secured a decisive victory on Monday as the Liberal Party candidate in the Scarborough Southwest constituency of Toronto. According to a report by Canada’s state broadcaster CBC News, in her ...

China vowed Tuesday to impose “countermeasures” after US President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on its goods entering the United States if Beijing provided military assistance to Iran during the Middle East war. “If the US insists on using this as an excuse to impose additional tariffs on China, China will definitely take resolute countermeasures,” foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun ...

The US military began a blockade of Iran’s ports on Monday, President Donald Trump said, and Tehran threatened to retaliate against its Gulf neighbors’ ports after weekend talks in Islamabad on ending the war broke down. A US official said there was continued engagement with Iran, and forward motion on trying to get to an agreement. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz ...

A chorus of top-ranking Iranian officials threatened retaliation. Mohsen Rezaeiilitary adviser and a former Revolutionary Guard Commander, wrote on X that the country’s armed forces had “major untouched levers” to counter a Hormuz blockade. He said Iran would not be coerced by “tweets and imaginary plans.” Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, who led Iran’s side in the talks, addressed ...

Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who was part of peace talks with the United States this weekend, said on Sunday that Washington was “unable” to win Tehran’s trust during the discussions. “My colleagues in the Iranian delegation… put forward constructive initiatives but ultimately the other side was unable to gain the trust of the Iranian delegation in this round ...

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar insisted on Sunday Washington and Tehran must uphold a ceasefire agreement, after marathon talks between the two sides to end the war in the Middle East ended without an agreement. “It is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to ceasefire,” said Ishaq Dar, whose government hosted the talks and acted as a ...

Iraqi lawmakers elected Nizar Amedi as the country’s new president on Saturday, following political disputes that delayed the vote and the formation of the next government. Amedi now has 15 days to appoint a prime minister, who is expected to be former head of government Nouri al-Maliki, despite US concerns over the choice in previous weeks. The election came against ...

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said on Friday that 13 state security personnel were killed in an ⁠Israeli strike on ⁠a governmental building in the southern city ⁠of Nabatieh. In a statement, Aoun condemned continued Israeli attacks and said targeting state institutions would not ⁠deter ⁠Lebanon from defending its sovereignty. Meanwhile, Iran-backed Hezbollah fired around 30 projectiles from Lebanon into Israel ...

More than 100,000 Muslim worshippers performed Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem, the holy site’s Islamic authority reported, after it reopened the previous day following a truce agreed between the United States and Iran. Jerusalem’s Old City is home to major holy sites for all three Abrahamic religions, which had been shuttered since the start of the ...