Flights returning Colombian migrants from US border to restart from next week

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Flights returning Colombians found by immigration officers at the U.S. border with Mexico to their home country will resume beginning next week, Colombia’s migration agency said on Friday. The agency said this week it had temporarily suspended the program, citing cruel and degrading treatment and last-minute flight cancellations. The number of Colombians…

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Ecuador committee report does not recommend Lasso removal, lawmaker says

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – The oversight committee of Ecuador’s National Assembly will debate a draft report that concludes President Guillermo Lasso did not participate in embezzlement and recommends against his impeachment, a lawmaker said on Friday. Opposition politicians pushed for impeachment hearings on accusations Lasso turned a blind eye to alleged embezzlement related…

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Smoldering Iran nuclear crisis risks catching fire

By Arshad Mohammed, John Irish, Jonathan Landay and Parisa Hafezi WASHINGTON/PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) -Even as the United States and its European allies grapple with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising tensions with China, the smoldering crisis over Iran’s nuclear program threatens to reignite. In a sign of European concern, Britain, France and Germany have warned Iran…

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US proposes new checks on land sales to foreigners near military bases

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Buying land near eight U.S. military bases could become more difficult for foreign companies and citizens under a Treasury Department rule proposed by the Biden administration on Friday. The proposed rule would expand the jurisdiction of the Treasury’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which reviews foreign investment and real…

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Cubans, waylaid by weather and fuel shortage, march for May Day five days late

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cubans rallied on Havana’s Malecon waterfront boulevard to celebrate International Worker’s Day on Friday, five days after the planned May 1 event was called off due to foul weather and a fuel crisis that has crippled public transport on the island. Thousands of Cubans, many dressed in white, red and blue t-shirts,…

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Nigeria begins hearing presidential election challenge next week

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s election tribunal will on Monday start hearing opposition petitions challenging president-elect Bola Tinubu’s victory in the disputed February presidential vote, court records showed on Friday. Tinubu, from the ruling All Progressives Congress party, defeated his closest rivals Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party and Labour Party’s Peter Obi, who alleged…

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Google, Sonos head to trial in contentious smart speaker patent fight

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Sonos Inc and Alphabet’s Google LLC will face off in a San Francisco federal trial on Monday over claims that Google copied Sonos’ patented smart-speaker technology in wireless audio devices like Google Home and Chromecast Audio. The case is part of a sprawling intellectual property dispute between the former business…

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