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Author, Ana Faguy
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Di State Department don cancel more dan 6,000 international student visas becos of violations of US law and overstay, na wetin di department tell BBC.
Di agency say “majority of dem” of di violations na assault, driving under di influence (DUI), burglary and “support for terrorism”.
Dis move dey come as Trump administration kotinu to crackdown on immigration and international students.
While di State Department no explain wetin dem mean by “support for terrorism”, di Trump administration bin target some students wey bin protest in support of Palestine, according to am dem express antisemitic behaviour.
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Out of di 6,000 student visas wey dem cancel, di State Department say about 4,000 of dem, dem cancel becos di visitors break di law.
Anoda 200-300 visas dem also revoke am sake of “terrorism wey dem do under INA 3B”, di State Department tok, dem refer to dis code wey dem define as “terrorist activity” mainly activities wey endanger human life or violate US law.
Earlier dis year, di Trump administration bin pause to schedule di visa appointments for international students. For June, wen dem restart di appointments, dem announce say dem go ask all applicants to make dia social media accounts public for enhanced screening.
Dem say dem go search for “any indications of hostility toward di citizens, culture, goment, institutions, or founding principles of di United States”.
Dem instruct State Department officers to screen for those “wey advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and oda threats to national security; or who perpetrate unlawful anti-Semitic harassment or violence”.
For May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio tell lawmakers say from im estimation say dem cancel “thousands” of student visas since January.
“I no know di latest count, but we probably get more to do,” Rubio tell US lawmakers on 20 May. “We go kotinu to cancel di visas of pipo wey dey hia as guests and dey disrupte our higher education facilities.”
Democrats don push back against di Trump administration effort to cancel student visas, dem describe am as an attack to due process.
More dan 1.1 million international students from ova 210 kontris enrol for US colleges for 2023-24 school year, according to Open Doors, one organisation wey dey collect data on foreign students.
Marius Borg Hoiby faces up to 10 years in prison after being charged with 32 criminal offences, including rape.
The son of Norway’s crown princess has been charged with raping four women, domestic violence, assault and other crimes following a yearlong police investigation, according to prosecutors.
Marius Borg Hoiby, 28, son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit and stepson of the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Haakon, is expected to stand trial early next year and could face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of the most serious charges, Oslo state attorney Sturla Henriksbo said on Monday.
Hoiby denies the most serious accusations against him but plans to plead guilty to some lesser charges in court when the trial starts, his lawyer Petar Sekulic told the Reuters news agency.
“He does not agree with the claims regarding rape and domestic violence,” Sekulic said of his client.
Hoiby was charged on Monday with 32 criminal offences, including one count of rape with sexual intercourse and three counts of rape without intercourse, some of which he filmed on his telephone, the prosecution said.
Henriksbo estimates the trial could begin in mid-January and take about six weeks.
Princess Ingrid Alexandra, Marius Borg Hoiby, Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit attend the celebrations of Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s Official Day at Deichman Museum on June 16, 2022, in Oslo, Norway [File: Rune Hellestad/Getty Images]
Hoiby does not have a royal title and is outside the line of royal succession.
“It is up to the courts to hear this case and to reach a decision,” the royal palace said in a statement.
The prosecutor said Hoiby, as a member of the royal family, would not be treated “more lightly or more severely” than anyone else in similar circumstances.
Domestic abuse
Police in November last year held Hoiby in detention for one week as part of the investigation.
In August of last year, Hoiby was named as a suspect of physical assault against a woman with whom he had been in a relationship – the only victim identified by the prosecution, Nora Haukland.
“The violence consisted, among other things, of him repeatedly hitting her in the face, including with a clenched fist, choking her, kicking her and grabbing her hard,” the prosecutor said.
Hoiby, in a statement to the media at the time, admitted to causing bodily harm to the woman while he was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol and of damaging her apartment. He had stated then that he regretted his actions.
According to media reports, he spent time with gang members, Hells Angels bikers and members of Oslo’s Albanian mafia. In 2023, police contacted him to discuss his hangouts with “notorious criminals”.
It emerged last year that Hoiby had already been arrested in 2017 for using cocaine at a music festival.
Over 300,000 people still missing in Syria, commission reports – Daily Times
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Israel not letting in enough supplies into Gaza to avert widespread starvation – UN rights office
Israel is letting some supplies into the Gaza Strip but not enough to avert widespread starvation, said the United Nations human rights office on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
“In the past few weeks, Israeli authorities have only allowed aid to enter in quantities that remain far below what would be required to avert widespread starvation,” UN human rights office spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan told a Geneva press briefing.
He added that the risk of starvation in Gaza was a “direct result of the Israeli government’s policy of blocking humanitarian aid. Israel’s military agency that coordinates aid, COGAT, said Israel invests “considerable efforts” in aid distribution to Gaza.
Palestinians gather to receive cooked meals from a food distribution centre in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 18 August 2025. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Key events
The latest Gaza ceasefire proposal agreed by Hamas is “almost identical” to an earlier plan put forward by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
Israel is studying Hamas’ response to a Gaza ceasefire proposal of a potential deal for a 60-day truce and the release of half the Israeli hostages still held in the territory,two officials said on Tuesday, according toReuters.
Efforts to pause the fighting gained new momentum over the past week after Israel announced plans for a new offensive to seize control of Gaza City, and Egypt and Qatar have been pushing to restart indirect talks between the sides on a US-backed ceasefire plan.
The proposal includes the release of 200 Palestinian convicts jailed in Israel and an unspecified number of imprisoned women and minors, in return for 10 living and 18 deceased hostages from Gaza, according to a Hamas official.
Two Egyptian security sources confirmed the details, and added that Hamas has requested the release of hundreds of Gaza detainees as well.
The proposal includes a partial withdrawal of Israeli forces, which presently control 75% of Gaza and the entry of more humanitarian aid into the territory, where a population of 2.2 million people is increasingly facing famine.
Israel not letting in enough supplies into Gaza to avert widespread starvation – UN rights office
Israel is letting some supplies into the Gaza Strip but not enough to avert widespread starvation, said the United Nations human rights office on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
“In the past few weeks, Israeli authorities have only allowed aid to enter in quantities that remain far below what would be required to avert widespread starvation,” UN human rights office spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan told a Geneva press briefing.
He added that the risk of starvation in Gaza was a “direct result of the Israeli government’s policy of blocking humanitarian aid. Israel’s military agency that coordinates aid, COGAT, said Israel invests “considerable efforts” in aid distribution to Gaza.
Palestinians gather to receive cooked meals from a food distribution centre in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 18 August 2025. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Netanyahu calls Australia PM ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel’
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticised his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese as a “weak politician” on Tuesday, amid an ongoing row between the two countries after Canberra declared it would recognise a Palestinian state.
“History will remember Albanese for what he is: A weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia’s Jews,” read a post on the official X account of Netanyahu’s office, AFP reports.
Unrwa chief Philippe Lazzarini has marked world humanitarian day paying tribute to frontline Unrwa staff in Gaza.
In a post on social media, he said since the beginning of the war Unrwa staff had “paid a heavy price” with “nearly 360 personnel have been killed, several in the line of duty” and “hundreds have been injured”.
He added: “Nearly 50 personnel have been arrested or detained and some were tortured before their release. Our staff are however not giving up despite the hell they experience daily.
“I also pay tribute to @UNRWA teams across the region who continue to provide services especially education + primary health care amid immense challenges & against all odds.
“As UNRWA goes through existential threats, our teams #ActForHumanity.
“They deserve support, respect & admiration.
“They are committed to continue their mission until a just solution is found to the plight of #Palestine Refugees + until the decades-long conflict finally ends through diplomatic & peaceful means.
“It’s time
“It’s overdue.”
The ministry of health in the Gaza Strip said it recorded “three adult deaths due to starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours.”
This brings the total number of victims of famine and malnutrition to 266, including 112 children, the ministry added.
The UN security council has begun debating a resolution drafted by France to extend the UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon for a year with the ultimate aim of withdrawing it, AFP reports.
Israel and the United States have reportedly opposed the renewal of the force’s mandate, and it was unclear if the draft text has backing from Washington, which wields a veto on the Council.
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), established in 1978, patrols Lebanon’s southern border with Israel. The mandate for the operation is renewed annually, and its current authorisation expires on 31 August.
The draft text would see the council indicate “its intention to work on a withdrawal of UNIFIL with the aim of making the Lebanese Government the sole provider of security in southern Lebanon, provided that the Government of Lebanon fully controls all Lebanese territory … and that the parties agree on a comprehensive political arrangement.”
The draft resolution under discussion also “calls for enhanced diplomatic efforts to resolve any dispute or reservation pertaining to the international border between Lebanon and Israel.”
The Council’s 15 members are expected to vote on the draft on 25 August.
Here are some images coming to us over the wires.
Mourners pray during the funeral of Palestinians killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on their tent, according to medics, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, 19 August 2025. Photograph: Hatem Khaled/ReutersA Palestinian woman inspects the site of an overnight Israeli strike on a tent, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, 19 August 2025. Photograph: Hatem Khaled/ReutersPalestinians displaced by the Israeli military offensive take shelter in tents in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, 19 August 2025. Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters
Ship with 1,200 tons of food supplies approaches Israeli port of Ashdod
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza.
A ship loaded with 1,200 tons of food supplies for Gaza is approaching the Israeli port of Ashdod.
It’s expected to dock on Tuesday as part of renewed efforts to alleviate the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory.
The ship is loaded with 52 containers carrying aid such as flour, pasta, rice, baby food and canned goods, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
Israeli customs officials had security-screened it at Cyprus’ main port of Limassol.
About 700 tons of the aid are from Cyprus, bought with money donated by the United Arab Emirates to a fund set up last year for donors to help with seaborne aid.
“The situation is beyond dire,” Cyprus foreign minister Constantinos Kombos told AP.
The Cypriot foreign ministry said Tuesday’s mission is led by the United Nations but is a coordinated effort – once offloaded at Ashdod, UN aid employees would arrange for the aid to be trucked to storage areas and food stations operated by the World Central Kitchen.
The latest shipment comes a day after Hamas said it has accepted a new proposal from Arab mediators for a ceasefire.Israel has not approved the latest proposal so far.
Israel announced plans to reoccupy Gaza City and other heavily populated areas after ceasefire talks stalled last month, raising the possibility of a worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, which experts say is sliding into famine.
More than 200 Palestinians in Gaza have died of malnutrition or starvation in the war, according to health authorities.
Israel says its offensive is in self-defence after Hamas militants crossed the border into Israel in October 2023 killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 others hostage.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed reports of starvation in Gaza are “lies” promoted by Hamas.
