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Getty Images Protesters blocked a bridge in Budapest after the law passed on Tuesday Hungary has passed a law banning Pride marches held by the LGBT community, sparking outrage in and out of the country. Parliament voted for the measure just a day after the bill was submitted on Monday, in a process fast-tracked by … Read more
US President Donald Trump’s administration is working to bring back nearly 25,000 fired federal workers after judges ruled their terminations were illegal, court documents show. Officials at 18 departments and agencies have submitted documents to a federal court detailing their efforts to rehire the laid off probationary workers to comply with the court orders. Last … Read more
Getty Images Debra Eichenbaum had not thought about the measles virus for 20 years when she got her two young children vaccinated against the highly contagious disease. But then cases across the US began to climb this year, and the 62-year-old worried about how best to protect her husband, David, who is immunocompromised after surviving … Read more
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from pulling $14 billion in climate grant funding out of accounts at Citibank, where it has been held since late last year. The grant funding has been caught up in a controversy for the last month after Lee Zeldin, the … Read more
Steve Rosenberg Russia editor Reuters Russian media were buoyant after Putin’s call with Trump Judging by some of the headlines today in Russia, Moscow believes that the latest telephone conversation between Presidents Putin and Trump went well – certainly for the Kremlin. “Putin and Trump agreed to work together on Ukraine resolution,” concludes Izvestia. “Record-long … Read more
The Malaysian cabinet has approved a fresh search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, more than a decade after the aircraft vanished. The search will cover a 15,000 sq km area in the southern Indian Ocean, under a “no find, no fee” agreement with the exploration firm Ocean Infinity. The company will receive … Read more
Nigeria is facing an escalating political crisis after President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in the oil-rich Rivers state and suspended the governor, his deputy and all lawmakers in the state parliament for six months. In a nationwide broadcast on Tuesday evening Tinubu said he had received “disturbing security reports detailing incidents of … Read more
Oil and gas executives will meet with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday as they seek to influence him on tariffs, tax credits and deregulation. Some executives in the industry, which spent more than $75 million to help elect Mr. Trump, are increasingly frustrated with Mr. Trump’s agenda. Tariffs are making essential materials … Read more
A US court awarded Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas $18m (£14m) in damages, after a jury said he was defamed by former Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong. The case stems from comments Agyapong made about Anas after his BBC investigation in 2018 that exposed football corruption in Ghana and elsewhere. The court heard that Agyapong, … Read more
A powerful dust storm swept through central New Mexico on Tuesday, causing multiple crashes and poor visibility, according to local media reports. Footage captured by Alex Matthews shows a vehicle pileup along Interstate 40. Mr Matthews told the BBC he saw several vehicles on fire or in the wreckage, however there were no immediate reports … Read more