As aid workers at a nutrition center warn parents who have no choice but to feed their children, UNICEF claims “famine is absolutely ravaging Gaza City.” Hani Mahmoud from Al Jazeera, who visited the facility, where “there are no shortage of signs of famine.”
A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court’s decision on Friday that preserved Venezuelans’ Temporary Protected Status (TPS). As the court processes the legal challenges, the status will remain in place.
The Biden administration had extended TPS for about 600,000 Venezuelans through October 2026 before leaving office.
The status would expire for approximately 350, 000 Venezuelans who were initially granted protection in 2023 in April of this year, and for approximately 250, 000 Venezuelans who were initially granted the status in 2021 by September. According to the Trump administration, the status would expire.
That would make those impacted legally unemployed and vulnerable to deportation.
In a previous ruling in March, US District Judge Edward Chen had determined that plaintiffs’ claims that the administration had overstepped its authority were likely to have a majority in court.
Venezuelans’ attorneys claimed that the administration was motivated by racial animus.
Chen at the time set the termination to be frozen. The Supreme Court, however, temporarily allowed the administration to proceed with the status change and reversed the decision in an emergency appeal.
The Immigration Act of 1990 created Temporary Protected Status under the guidance of Congress.
It authorizes the Department of Homeland Security’s secretary to grant legal immigration status to people fleeing nations where there are “extraordinary and temporary conditions” that prevent a safe return to their home countries.
In its harsh immigration policy, the Trump administration has begun to ban the program for citizens of Haiti, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
Although the administration has the right to refuse to renew TPS, several courts have rejected attempts to alter already established timelines.
The police killed a delivery driver on Thursday night in an effort to stoke cost-of-living demonstrations has heightened protests in Indonesia. The death of Affan Kurniawan is thought to reflect the issues they themselves face, according to protesters.
Trump’s latest move is to revoke US funding for humanitarian projects and international organizations. Additionally, it is Trump’s most recent attempt to exercise his presidential authority.
Trump previously obtained congressional approval to revoke $ 9 billion in foreign aid and funding for the media through legislation passed in July, but the most recent move attempts to use an obscure tactic to completely bypass the legislative branch.
Congress has the authority to regulate federal spending under the US Constitution. Trump, however, informed House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson that he intended to withhold the $4. 9 billion in foreign spending from him in a letter that was posted online late on Thursday.
Trump would use a law that allows him to pause the spending for 45 days to implement the “pocket rescission.” The funding would then expire after the fiscal year ended on September 30.
The tactic was last used more than 50 years ago, according to the White House.
The funds were designated for foreign aid, UN peacekeeping missions, and so-called “democracy promotion” efforts overseas, according to a court document filed on Friday.
Under US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump has largely dismantled and reorganized the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which was supposed to oversee the majority of it.
The United Nations and other aid organizations have been receiving increasingly strong warnings about the disastrous effects of US cuts.
The UN announced extensive program reductions in June as part of what the humanitarian office called “the biggest funding cuts ever to hit the international humanitarian sector.”
The humanitarian community has been “forced into a triage of human survival,” according to UN aid chief Tom Fletcher at the time. The UN also predicted a rise in HIV/AIDS deaths by 2029 as a result of the funding withdrawals in July.
Regions all over the world, particularly those in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa, have experienced the most severe knock-on effects.
At least 652 malnourished children  died at its facilities in northern Nigeria in the first half of 2025 due to a lack of timely care, according to a report from Doctors Without Borders, which is known by its French name MSF.
Save the Children earlier this week issued a warning that RUTF (ready-to-use therapeutic food) shortages in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan were expected over the next three months.
At least one Republican lawmaker has criticized Trump’s action as an unlawful overreach of the presidency.
As more and more cases of acute malnutrition encroach on the wards in Gaza City, newborns are being forced to share an incubator. According to doctors, due to Israel’s man-made famine, hospitals are eroding from their storage space.
In protest of the Gaza war, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claimed that his country has completely cut ties with Israel and that its airspace has been closed to its aircraft.
Fidan claimed that Israel has been “committing genocide in Gaza for the past two years, disregarding basic humanitarian values right before the world’s eyes” at an extraordinary session of the Turkish parliament on Friday.
In May of last year, Turkiye cut off Israeli trade with Israel and demanded an immediate ceasefire and the influx of humanitarian aid. The two nations traded $7 billion in 2023.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, along with many other world leaders and influential human rights organizations, has compared Israel’s occupation of Gaza to Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, and has made no mince words about it.
“We have completely stopped trading with Israel.” Turkish ships are not permitted to dock in Israeli waters. Their planes cannot enter our airspace, according to Fidan.
The Turkish foreign minister’s condemnation comes amid years of the two countries’ increasingly tense relations, according to Resul Serdar from Al Jazeera.
Turkiye gradually perceives Israel as a threat to national security, Serdar explained, noting that Israel’s expansionism and attacks on the wider Middle East have raised questions.
After the devastation of a 14-year civil war and Bashar al-Assad’s removal last December by a lightning rebel offensive, Ankara has accused Israel of wilfully undermining the country’s recovery efforts in Syria.
According to him, “diplomats in Ankara are seeing that if Israel isn’t stopped, these two nations might engage in direct military hostility.”
Serdar added that in spite of the United States’ and the European Union’s largely unwavering support for Israel, the comments from the Turkish foreign minister also demonstrate that Turkiye is looking to the Global South and other countries for action.
No official statement was made, but a report from Turkish media last week claimed that an Israeli-related maritime traffic ban had been implemented. According to reports, Turkish-flagged ships were prohibited from docking in Israeli ports and Israeli vessels were prohibited from docking there.
According to Akiva Eldar, an Israeli political analyst, Turkiye’s most recent move is making “more and more Israelis feel the drawbacks of this kind of war that has no deadline.”
Turkey has decided to end its relationship with Israel, not just another nation. Turkey has long been an Israeli ally and has a significant market for Israeli goods, Eldar said in an interview from Kiryat Shmona.
Israelis feel isolated and [like] pariahs, according to the group. More and more nations and businesses have opted to halt operations with Israel.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s plane was denied entry to Turkiye’s airspace last November after Turkish authorities blocked its entry to Azerbaijan’s international summit.
Erdogan later responded to a question about the incident by saying, “As Turkiye, we must take a position on some issues.”
Following Israel’s deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, which resulted in the deaths of 10 Turkish citizens, the relationship between Israel and Turkiye had already deteriorated since 2010.