Uzbekistan, Eritrea to establish diplomatic relations
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President Trump pledges to fire FBI agents whom he alleged are corrupt, and were part of the January 6th investigation.
President Donald Trump's administration agreed on Friday not to publicly name FBI employees involved in investigations into the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, as the president said some would be fired.
The agreement, which a federal judge approved, came after two groups of FBI agents sued the Justice Department to block its officials from releasing the names of employees, amid fears for their safety.
Under terms of the agreement, the department will be prevented from releasing the names until at least late March while lawsuits move forward. The department also agreed it will give the plaintiffs two days' notice if it decides to release the names in the future.
Several hours later, Trump told reporters he expects to fire some FBI agents for their roles in the January 6 investigation.
"I'll fire some of them because some of them were corrupt," he said.
Emil Bove, a former defense lawyer for Trump who now holds a senior role at the Justice Department, previously demanded the information from the FBI as part of what he described as an internal review of misconduct related to the Capitol riot probe, which led to nearly 1,600 criminal cases against Trump supporters.
In that memo, Bove also announced he was firing eight senior FBI officials, and added that after the FBI turned over the list of names, the department would review whether "additional personnel actions are necessary."
The deal struck in court on Friday came after the acting head of the FBI, Brian Driscoll, turned over to the Justice Department a list containing the names of FBI employees involved in January 6 investigations after days of resistance and the filing of the two lawsuits against the department, according to an email seen by Reuters.
Driscoll told FBI employees in the email that in providing the names, the FBI used a classified system and identified the information as "law enforcement sensitive" to protect employees' safety.
The dispute over the list has become a flashpoint as the FBI seeks to safeguard its independence during a push by the Trump administration to remove or sideline officials who have worked on investigations condemned by Trump.
Driscoll's resistance to hand over the names prompted Bove to accuse him of insubordination. A previous list the FBI turned over earlier this week identified agents only by their employee identification numbers, in a bid to protect their safety, according to an earlier internal email seen by Reuters.
The Justice Department, responding to the agents' lawsuits, has said it has no immediate plans to publicly name the employees included on the list.
Bove has previously said that agents who only followed orders on investigations would not be disciplined.
Australian researchers have pioneered a low-cost and scalable plasma-based method to produce ammonia gas directly from air, offering a green alternative to the traditional fossil fuel-dependent Haber-Bosch process.
A series of earthquakes have struck Guatemala on Tuesday afternoon, leading authorities to advise residents to evacuate from buildings as a precaution against possible aftershocks.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,500-year-old city in northern Peru that likely served as a key trade hub connecting ancient coastal, Andean, and Amazonian cultures.
A deadly mass shooting early on Monday (7 July) in Philadelphia's Grays Ferry neighbourhood left three men dead and nine others wounded, including teenagers, as more than 100 shots were fired.
On July 4, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Khankendi, reaffirming the deep-rooted alliance between the two nations.
France recorded over 100 drowning deaths in just one month — a 58% rise from last year — as unusually high temperatures drove more people to water, public health officials say.
Germany’s public debt is projected to climb from 62.5% to 74% of GDP by 2030, driven by record defence and infrastructure spending, according to a report by the European rating agency Scope.
Migration offset natural decline for the fourth consecutive year, pushing the European Union’s population to an historic high of 450.4 million in 2024, according to Eurostat figures released on Friday.
The global oil market may be tighter than headline supply-demand figures suggest, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Friday, citing rising refinery activity and seasonal summer demand as key drivers of short-term market pressure.
China’s exports are expected to have grown 5% in June as manufacturers hurried goods abroad ahead of a 12 August deadline that could see the U.S. restore punitive tariffs, a Reuters survey of economists indicates.
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