The stalled operation, code-named “M&Ms,” sought to isolate Russian elites and force Vladimir Putin to negotiate a truce.

Canada and Australia criticized Israel for deciding against criminal prosecutions over killing seven World Central Kitchen workers in April 2024.

Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung, whose commemorations of China’s 1989 crackdown drew tens of thousands of people each year, had pleaded not guilty to inciting subversion.

The suspected launch on Thursday comes a day after North Korea shrugged off a U.S. decision to scale back military drills with South Korea in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy.

The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him a “bad person” and “not to be trusted” and urging Canada to keep fighting rather than rush to make concessions in trade talks with Washington.

The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned 15 people involved in a network allegedly shipping cocaine from Ecuador through Mexico to the U.S. The operation uses Ecuador-based fishing vessels to transfer cocaine

Critics in the small West African nation say their government has not said why it agreed to one of the largest U.S. deportation deals, who the deportees are, or how they will be handled.

Thirty-five Mexicans deported from the United States arrived in Honduras on Thursday, part of a recent shift in which U.S. authorities are increasingly sending Mexican nationals to Central America before their return home.