NewsOvernight report: Rwanda discusses accepting deported US migrants with criminal past
Overnight report: Rwanda discusses accepting deported US migrants with criminal past
This happened while you were sleeping. Here is what global agencies reported overnight from Monday to Tuesday.
- The Rwandan Foreign Minister, Olivier Nduhungirehe, confirmed that his government is in talks with President Donald Trump's administration about accepting deported migrants with a criminal past from the USA, as reported by the BBC. Nduhungirehe stated in an interview with Rwandan television that his government believes in "giving a second chance to migrants who have problems around the world," and discussions with Washington began in January, shortly after Trump's inauguration. The United States already has a similar agreement with El Salvador, which accepts Venezuelan citizens and holds them in a detention centre for terrorists; certain groups of deported migrants from the USA have also been accepted by Costa Rica and Panama.
- At least three people died, four were injured, and nine went missing after a boat capsized near the city of San Diego, located at the US-Mexico border, as reported by the Associated Press. AP explains that these types of boats do not have roofs and are primarily used by fishermen but are also often utilised by smugglers.
- The Israeli air force reported that it bombed Houthi rebel targets in Yemen on Monday evening, including the port in Hudaydah and a concrete factory. About 20 fighter jets took part in the strike. The air raid was in retaliation for the Houthi attack on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
- The four main airports in Moscow suspended operations due to an attack by Ukrainian drones, as reported by the authorities of the Russian capital overnight from Monday to Tuesday. The city's mayor reported on air defence operations, which reportedly shot down several drones. Ukrainian drones were also said to have attacked targets in the Ryazan, Tambov, Tula, Astrakhan, Nizhny Novgorod, Tver, Kursk, and Smolensk regions.
- Serbian students, who have been leading nationwide protests for five months, demanded the dissolution of the parliament and the calling of early elections on Monday, according to a statement they published on Instagram. "We believe that democracy is the only proper way to resolve a political crisis of this scale, therefore we urge people to support the list on which the students blocking all higher education institutions in Serbia will place their trust," they wrote.
