UK and France to present Ukraine peace plan to Trump, PM says
Jennifer McKiernan
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK and France will work with Ukraine "on a plan to stop the fighting" with Russia - and will then "discuss that plan with the United States".
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is attending a summit of European leaders, two days after a fiery exchange with US President Donald Trump in the White House.
Sir Keir told BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that his "driving purpose" right now was to act as a "bridge" between the two men.
Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal
Netanyahu wants Hamas to allow for release of hostages without troop withdrawal, in plan Israel says came from US
Sun 2 Mar 2025 10.32 GMT
Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal
Netanyahu wants Hamas to allow for release of hostages without troop withdrawal, in plan Israel says came from US
Israel has cut off humanitarian supplies to Gaza in an effort to pressure Hamas into accepting a change in the ceasefire agreement to allow for the release of hostages without an Israeli troop withdrawal.
The office of the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday it was imposing a blockade on Gaza because Hamas would not accept a plan which it claimed had been put forward by the US special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to extend phase one of the ceasefire and continue to release hostages, and postpone phase two, which envisaged an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
“With the end of phase one of the hostage deal, and in light of Hamas’s refusal to accept the Witkoff outline for continuing talks – to which Israel agreed – Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided that, as of this morning, all entry of goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip will cease. Israel will not allow a ceasefire without the release of our hostages,” it said in a statement. “If Hamas continues its refusal, there will be further consequences.”
Micronesia: Activists push for Chuuk islands' independence
The US' new and seemingly erratic foreign policy has sent out waves across the Pacific Ocean — to the Chuuk islands in Micronesia, where local independence campaigners say it's time to start as a new sovereign nation.
The Chuuk islands — a seemingly idyllic spot in the Pacific Ocean, northeast of Indonesia and north of Australia and Papua New Guinea — is one of the four states making up the Federated States of Micronesia, an island nation strategically aligned with the US.
Despite Micronesia's small population, (around 113,000 in 2024) the island chain allows for control of vast swathes of the Pacific. And its alliance with the US runs deep — Washington provides millions of dollars in assistance every year to help with administration, education and health care as well as meeting other critical needs.
Trump's deportation threats spark fear among farmworkers in California
With planting season well under way in California, the leading US food-producing state, fear is taking root among thousands of migrants who labor to feed a country that now seems ready to deport them.
As planting season kicks off in California, the top food-producing state in the US, anxiety is growing among thousands of migrant workers who toil to feed the nation, yet now face the looming threat of deportation.
"We have to stay hidden," Lourdes Cardenas, a 62-year-old Mexican living in the city of Fresno, told AFP.
"You are unsure if you will encounter the immigration authorities. We can't be free anywhere, not in schools, not in churches, not in supermarkets," said Cardenas, who has lived in the United States for 22 years.
‘Versions of Hell’: Squid Game and S Korea’s historical homeless centres
Two men stand at the entrance to a forest surrounded by tall pine trees on an island south of the capital Seoul.
In the middle of the forest there is a large clearing and an excavation site.
Paper crane folded by A-bomb victim Sadako gifted to Obama
By JUNYA SAKAMOTO/ Staff Writer
March 2, 2025 at 16:40 JST
A nephew of the Japanese girl who became synonymous with the suffering caused by the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima handed an origami paper crane she is believed to have made to Barack Obama, the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city.
Yuji Sasaki, 54, met with Obama for about 20 minutes in Hawaii on Feb. 26.
Sadako Sasaki was 2 years old when the city was leveled in the bombing. Her home was about 1.6 kilometers from Ground Zero. She died of leukemia 10 years later.
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