President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he would intervene to assist Afghans who have been detained in the United Arab Emirates for years after fleeing their country when the Taliban seized control.
Despite previously halting refugee resettlement upon taking office in January and ending temporary deportation protections for thousands of Afghans in April, Trump took to Truth Social to express support for those stranded. “I will try to save them, starting right now,” he wrote, linking to an article about the Afghans currently in limbo in the UAE.
The UAE, a key U.S. security ally, agreed in 2021 to temporarily shelter thousands of Afghans evacuated from Kabul during the final days of the U.S. military withdrawal, as the Taliban overran the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
In 2022, Canada responded to a U.S. request and committed to resettling around 1,000 of the Afghans still being housed in the UAE. However, the exact number of those who remain in the Gulf state is currently unknown.
Since the chaotic evacuation from Kabul, the Biden administration has brought nearly 200,000 Afghans to the United States. This group includes family members of Afghan-American U.S. service members, unaccompanied children reuniting with parents, relatives of already-admitted Afghans, and tens of thousands who worked with the U.S. government during its 20-year presence in Afghanistan.
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Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
A shooting in Nice, southeastern France, left two people dead and five injured on Friday, authorities said.
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Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina postponed a planned national address on Monday after a group of soldiers threatened to seize the headquarters of the state broadcaster, according to the presidency.
The European Union’s next wave of eastward enlargement, particularly involving candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe, could prove decisive for Europe’s energy security and competitiveness.
Venezuela has closed its embassy in Oslo, Norway’s foreign ministry confirmed on Monday, days after opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
NATO is reinforcing its eastern flank as Italy deploys Eurofighter Typhoons to Estonia, Finland opens a new Northern Land Forces Command, and European allies push for a continent-wide “Drone Wall” following Russian drone incursions that exposed gaps in the alliance’s air defences.
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