PARIS (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron has denounced a “spirit of defeat” over Ukraine, putting the European leader at odds with Washington’s continued push to end the Western countries’ war on Russia. U.S. President Donald Trump, whose policies have been blamed for rising fuel prices in the United States, has called for negotiations to end the war. Trump said last week he was confident his administration was close to brokering a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv. “I think we’re going to have it done and I think it’s going to happen and they’re going to end up with a little bit different shape,” he said on the CBS News program *60 Minutes* last Sunday. Macron wrote on X on Saturday, “Let us be clear: those who want to restrict Ukraine’s resources ultimately want to force it into an unjust peace,” leaving the country permanently vulnerable and, by extension, Europe as well.

 

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 MADRID (Reuters) - Nearly 1,500 migrants arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands on Saturday, marking the highest number of arrivals in a single day since 2020, according to the EFE news agency. A total of 1,488 people aboard 14 boats were rescued by the Spanish coastguard, EFE reported Sunday, citing the maritime rescue service. The latest arrivals come amid a surge in migration from West African countries to the Spanish archipelago since October. The previous single-day record was 1,461 people rescued in waters off the Canary Islands on Nov. 7, 2020, maritime rescue services said Sunday. One of the boats rescued on Saturday was carrying 240 people, including 12 women and 36 children, authorities said. The migrants were taken to El Hierro, one of the smallest islands in the archipelago.

 

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A UPS cargo plane and a Copa Airlines passenger jet collided at Miami International Airport in the U.S. state of Florida late Saturday, prompting an emergency response, local media reported. No injuries were reported in the collision, CBS News reported, citing airport officials. The aircraft involved were a UPS Boeing 767 and a Copa Airlines Boeing 737, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. The collision occurred around 9.15 pm local time (0215GMT Sunday) when an arriving aircraft and a departing plane came into contact at the intersection of two taxiways, Greg Chin, communications director at Miami International Airport, said. “There are no reported injuries,” Chin told CBS News Miami in a statement.

 

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Flavio Bolsonaro, who secretly traveled to the U.S. after losing Brazil’s presidential election, said he plans to seek permanent residency amid concerns that he could face political pressure and prosecution if he returns to Brazil. Bolsonaro, who fled to Miami with his family after losing the second round of Brazil’s presidential election, told The Epoch Times in an interview that he would continue his political activities in Brazil from abroad. He said he could defend his country from the U.S. and would continue communicating with his political supporters and making decisions together.

 

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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Czechs protested in Prague on Sunday against a government plan to cut a public media fee and move funding to the state budget – a policy critics say would dent the broadcasters’ independence and viability. Opposition parties compared the proposals in an October bill to changes in Hungary under former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who built an array of pro-government media. Local authorities had estimated hundreds of thousands would attend the rally days before the November 17 holiday commemorating the 1989 Velvet Revolution that swept away Communist rule and propelled dissident playwright Vaclav Havel to power.