Mexican president: Tariffs will not solve migration problem
Vanessa Buschschlüter
Latin America editor, News Online
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has now responded to Trump’s threat to impose 25% tariffs on goods imported from Mexico.
In her morning news conference she read out a letter she said she would send to the US president-elect.
In it, she tackled Trump’s remark head on that the tariffs would stay "until such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country".
Sheinbaum insisted that neither threats nor tariffs would solve the "migration phenomenon" or drug consumption in the US
Romania election: what next after ultranationalist’s shock first-round victory?
Upset in presidential ballot as frontrunners knocked out and pro-Russian Călin Georgescu comes first
After an upset in the first of three crunch votes that could lead to Romania veering towards a more anti-EU, pro-Russian stance, the EU and Nato member state returns to the polls on Sunday for a parliamentary ballot followed, on 8 December, by a presidential runoff.
The votes will be closely watched not least in Brussels, which does not want another disruptive, sovereignist influence in the region alongside Hungary and Slovakia, and among western allies, which Bucharest has reliably backed against Moscow.
Romania shares a 400-mile border with Ukraine and is considered to play a key strategic role, hosting a big Nato military base, donating a Patriot air defence battery and providing a vital transit route for millions of tonnes of Ukrainian grain.
Pakistan: Imran Khan supporters storm capital
Police in Islamabad fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters demanding the release of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. The government said four security personnel were killed amid the unrest.
Four security force members were killed in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday, the country's Interior Ministry said, after thousands of supporters of imprisoned ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan defied a police lockdown to march in the city center.
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as the protesters broke through a barricade of shipping containers blocking off the national capital. The government warned that security forces would respond with live gunfire if protesters used weapons against them.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said four members of the paramilitary Rangers force died after being "run over by a vehicle." There were no claims of responsibility for the attack.
Opposed to Putin's war in Ukraine, Russians find exile in Thailand
Around 60,000 Russians are now thought to be living in Thailand illegally. Many Ukrainians have also sought refuge there to avoid conscription.
Our team travelled to Koh Phangan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand, where Russian men and women have formed a small community of exiles.
UN says Taliban detained journalists over 250 times in Afghanistan since takeover
By Reuters
South African miners trapped underground: What’s the latest?
Officials have arrested a group of 14 people who emerged unassisted, including a teenage boy.
South African police this week arrested a group of 14 people who resurfaced from a gold mine that’s at the centre of a tense, weeks-long standoff between unauthorised miners and authorities in the northwestern town of Stilfontein.
The men were arrested Sunday night after emerging from one of the mine’s shafts or entrances. A teenage boy was among them and bore visible wounds.
Hundreds – possibly thousands – of people, are believed to be holed up in the vast tunnel network, without adequate food or water. The miners are fearful of coming out of hiding as they face arrest or deportation, officials have said.
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