Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was due to fly home Sunday, eight months after US President Donald Trump pardoned him mid-way through a 45-year American prison term for drug and arms trafficking. Hernandez, who governed from 2014 to 2022, will land at Palmerola airport near Tegucigalpa and must appear in court on August 3 on fraud and money-laundering charges.
New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham's Cabinet reshuffle has elevated several Indian-origin Labour MPs. Bihar-born Kanishka Narayan becomes Minister for Artificial Intelligence, while Satvir Kaur takes an equalities and Home Office role and Harpreet Uppal is named Assistant Whip. Uma Kumaran joins the Foreign Office as a junior minister. Starmer allies Seema Malhotra and Preet Kaur Gill were moved to the backbenches.
Britain's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he would put his country's interests first with US President Donald Trump and would not shy from voicing a different view when needed. In BBC interview excerpts released Sunday, Burnham, who replaced Keir Starmer in Downing Street on Monday, described his first phone call with Trump, made hours after taking office, as warm.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Washington on Monday to meet US President Donald Trump, who announced the visit at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. The talks come as American forces keep striking Iranian positions after a US-Iran ceasefire collapsed. Israel had opposed that deal. Separately, US-brokered Israel-Lebanon negotiations have stalled since March, while Israel's Gaza campaign continues.
US President Donald Trump has paused plans for a major new offensive against Iran, partly over dwindling stockpiles of Patriot interceptors, The New York Times reported. As the conflict nears its fifth month, CNN and Axios said Trump declined a 14th straight night of strikes, favouring talks. Vice-President JD Vance and General Dan Caine had warned Friday against further escalation.
Two men aged 65 and 77 from Bremen died when their light aircraft crashed into a house roof in Ganderkesee, near Oldenburg in Germany's Lower Saxony, on Saturday. The Tecnam P2010 had taken off from the local airfield and lost altitude about six minutes later, destroying its cockpit. The family living there was away; authorities are investigating the cause.
After 13 nights of strikes on Iran, the United States is reportedly seeking a temporary ceasefire and a return to a suspended memorandum of understanding, asking Qatar and Pakistan to mediate talks with Tehran. Iran has reportedly rejected negotiations unless all attacks stop first. President Trump, who earlier declared the ceasefire over, has warned of a 'massive attack' if diplomacy fails.
US Senator Tim Sheehy, a Montana Republican, has introduced a Senate bill seeking a three-year pause on new H-1B visas and to codify the Trump administration's $100,000 fee per petition, which a federal court recently struck down. Sheehy argued the US should not issue visas that undercut American workers. The H-1B programme is heavily used to hire skilled Indian professionals.
Ukrainian attacks on holiday camps in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region killed 11 people, including four children, Moscow-installed officials said Saturday, with 16 wounded. Ukrainian authorities in the northeastern Sumy region said a Russian drone strike killed three. The strikes followed a major Russian assault near Kyiv on Friday that killed at least 10 and wounded around 100 in the four-year war.
Venezuela has formally notified the United Nations of its 'irrevocable' decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia said. The ICC has run a multi-year investigation into members of Venezuela's armed forces and other officials. Plasencia, posting on X, alleged the court shows 'geographical bias', disproportionately targeting Global South nations in Africa and Latin America.
The UN General Assembly voted on Friday to extend Volker Turk's term as high commissioner for human rights by four years, overriding opposition from the United States, Russia and Israel. The renewal passed 144 to 10, with 13 abstentions, and takes effect on October 12. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had proposed keeping Turk in the post for a second term.
Southern China has evacuated more than 20,000 people and suspended rail services as Typhoon Noul approaches, with flights cancelled in Hong Kong. The storm is forecast to make landfall along the coast from Hong Kong to Guangdong province between Saturday evening and Sunday morning, the National Meteorological Center said, which issued an orange alert, the second-highest in its four-tier warning system.
President Droupadi Murmu, visiting Bucharest, on Saturday told a reception of the Indian community that the diaspora in Romania are true representatives of the country whose achievements aid India's progress. She called people-to-people ties the strongest pillar of India-Romania relations and saw scope to widen cooperation in defence, renewable energy, digital technology, education, research and healthcare, praising Indian professionals' economic contribution.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard naval forces fired on four vessels in the southern Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours, apparently to force them to stop or change course. State broadcaster IRIB said the ships were using an 'illegal and unsafe route' but named neither the vessels nor their nationalities. There was no immediate word on damage amid rising Iran-US tensions.
At least 35 people were killed and several injured when two passenger buses collided in central Syria on the Damascus-Deir ez-Zor highway, between Palmyra and Al-Sukhnah, Al Jazeera reported. One bus was carrying security-forces members and the other civilians, the Interior Ministry said. Helicopters flew the injured to Homs Military Hospital. Officials said early signs point to speeding or driver fatigue.
An easyJet flight from Tenerife to Liverpool turned back after a fight erupted between two groups of British passengers 30 minutes into the journey. Police met the plane at Tenerife South, and eight people, two adults and six minors, were removed; remaining passengers flew on later. The incident comes as UK officials weigh a shared database to bar disruptive flyers.
A Canadian woman who interned at a NATO site in Belgium has been arrested on spying charges, the Belgian prosecutor said on Saturday. She is suspected of spying for a third country and of belonging to a criminal organisation. The prosecutor said she was an intern at SHAPE, NATO's military headquarters in Mons, but withheld her name and other details for now.
President Donald Trump attended the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Friday night, held at Washington's Waldorf Astoria after being rescheduled from April, when a shooting disrupted it. 'The show must go on,' Trump said. Association president Weijia Jiang of CBS News thanked him and vowed the group would not be intimidated. Trump sat through over an hour of press awards.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres travels to Syria on Saturday, becoming the first serving UN chief to visit since a nearly 14-year war began that killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions. He is expected to address Syria's new Parliament on July 27 and visit a UN peacekeeping force. The trip follows the 2024 ouster of Bashar al-Assad and a transitional government.
An improvised explosive device concealed in an umbrella was found and defused near Dhaka's Motijheel metro station during a Rath Yatra procession in Bangladesh, officials said. Per The Daily Star, bomb-disposal sources said it held 1 to 1.5kg of sulphur in a metal pipe with iron balls, wired for remote detonation. A 33-year-old passerby was injured during disposal; the motive is unestablished.