Israeli Foreign Minister Sa'ar visits Baku amid regional tensions
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar visited Baku on Sunday to expand relations with Azerbaijan, at a time when Iran is violently suppressing protests that have left thousands dead.
Israel supports protesters seeking to overthrow the Islamic Republic, while Baku monitors developments affecting Iran's ethnic Azerbaijani population.
Both sides announced that they were drafting plans to enable cooperation in several areas including energy, defense, agriculture, and tourism.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy sets 2027 as target date for Ukraine's EU accession
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that his country aims to join the European Union in 2027, saying this will be part of a set of international security guarantees after the war ends.
But Hungary is blocking the opening of negotiation chapters, saying that Ukraine's accession would be accompanied by security threats and economic risk.
Meanwhile, an EU official confirmed that the possibility of a gradual integration of Ukraine into the EU is part of the discussions.
"An army that kills": uproar in Italy over ICE's security role at the Winter Olympics
A unit of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be part of security operations at the Winter Olympics in Italy, and this decision has caused unrest and petitions against them.
These reactions come due to violent ICE operations in the US, especially after the two murders of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this month.
The mayor of Milan and opposition parties opposed their involvement and demanded that the country guarantee its own security, while Italian and American authorities emphasized that ICE's role would only be supportive and investigative.
Dutch court sentences Eritrean national to 20 years in prison for inhumane and violent human trafficking
A Dutch court sentenced Eritrean citizen Tewelde Goitom to 20 years in prison for human trafficking and blackmail, describing his and his accomplices' activities as cruel and inhumane.
Tewelde Goitom and his network mistreated migrants in camps in Libya and forced their families in the Netherlands to pay money for dangerous journeys to Europe; only after the amount had been paid by them could the people held in the camps be returned to them.
The court ordered him to pay over 30,000 euros in damages, and he has two weeks to appeal the decision.
