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Colombia’s President Says He Will Not Accept U.S. Deportation Flights newsthirst.

Colombia will not accept deportation flights from the United States until the Trump administration provides a process to treat Colombian migrants with “dignity and respect,” the country’s president, Gustavo Petro, said on Sunday in a series of posts on X. Mr. Petro also said that Colombia had already turned away military planes carrying Colombian deportees….

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Merz doubles down on gambit with German far right in combative speech | Germany newsthirst.

The German conservative opposition leader, Friedrich Merz, whose party is widely tipped to win this month’s general election, defended his hardline migration proposals after a wave of protests accused him of breaching the time-honoured “firewall” between the far right and centrists. In an uncompromising speech to a party congress of his Christian Democratic Union (CDU)…

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Austria’s far-right leader to invite centre right for coalition talks | Austria newsthirst.

The leader of Austria’s anti-immigration, pro-Kremlin Freedom party has said he intends to invite the mainstream centre-right party for coalition talks, potentially paving the way for the far right to rule the country for the first time since the second world war. Herbert Kickl, whose party won the most votes in September’s election, was tasked…

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Josh Burns says there are ‘clearly gaps in legal framework’ amid calls for antisemitism national cabinet | Australian politics newsthirst.

The Labor MP Josh Burns says there are “clearly gaps in our legal framework” and has called on political parties “not to squabble over discrimination”, after Australia’s special envoy on antisemitism called for urgent action to address a spate of recent incidents she said were “terrorising Australia’s Jewish community”. Jillian Segal on Wednesday urged the…

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