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Thousands of migrants crossed overnight from Morocco into Spain’s north Africa’s Ceuta enclave, a police source said on Friday, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was set to arrive to manage the latest migrant crisis on the border. In recent days, a total of around 40,000 migrants have crossed into the territory – population 80,000 – the source added. The sudden massive influx has sparked a crisis for Spain’s government and prompted France to announce tighter checks on its border with Spain.

US and Saudi forces said they struck an Iraqi militant alliance on Wednesday, as the Middle East war expands beyond its main focus in Iran to involve the Islamic republic’s proxies. The strikes follow a short lull in direct US attacks on targets in Iran, with Tehran’s allies in Yemen and beyond becoming increasingly drawn in. Iran, meanwhile, launched missiles at Jordan, in its first attack in the region since the pause in fighting with the US began.

Rainbow flags in hand, hundreds gathered on Sunday at the Brandenburg Gate to mourn the suspected Islamist attack near Berlin Pride – and to oppose any attempts by the far right to exploit the tragedy. The minivan ramming late Saturday, which killed one person and injured dozens, came less than two months before Berlin elects a new state assembly, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) leading in some polls.

US President Donald Trump is under pressure to respond to the increasing success of Chinese AI models that many companies prefer to the more powerful, but pricier, US versions from Anthropic or OpenAI. The issue came to the fore this week with the release of Kimi K3 by Moonshot, which White House officials say was developed by stealing the capabilities of Anthropic’s most powerful model through a process called distillation.

Crowds of supporters of India’s online “cockroach” movement grew on Wednesday at a New Delhi protest site, with their campaign for accountability and reform following examination scandals getting a boost inside parliament from opposition lawmakers. The protests, led by the social media-driven Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement, have emerged as one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s government since his re-election in 2024.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Monday announced a maritime embargo of their foe Saudi Arabia, raising the stakes after the pair traded fire last week for the first time in years. The rebels declared “a maritime embargo against the criminal Saudi enemy, based on the equation of ‘an eye for an eye,’ effective immediately upon the issuance of this statement,” military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a video statement.

The United Nations called Friday for impartial investigations into dozens of reported deaths that have occurred in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a wave of unrest ahead of regional elections. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk “appeals for calm in Pakistan-administered Kashmir,” his spokesman Jeremy Laurence told reporters in Geneva.

Hong Kong police raided a bookstore run by former journalists on Wednesday, AFP reporters saw, the latest in a string of crackdowns on independent bookshops. Officers wearing vests labelled “NSD,” for National Security Department, led a woman in handcuffs to a van and took away several boxes of materials from the Have A Nice Stay bookshop.

US military strikes on Iran entered a second day on Monday in a new surge of fighting over the status of the Strait of Hormuz that endangered a fragile interim agreement and sent oil prices spiking. Here are the latest developments: US strikes killed two people on Monday in southwestern Iran in an oil-producing region near Kuwait and Iraq, the Iranian Fars and Tasnim news agencies reported.

The United Nations warned Friday that at least one million women and girls had lost access to critical support due to dramatic cuts to foreign aid spending since January 2025. In a fresh report, the UN Women agency decried a collapse of women’s organisations at a time when needs are soaring. US President Donald Trump slashed foreign aid after taking office last year, while other key donor countries have also been tightening their belts.