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Romania reports Russian drone in its airspace as Poland scrambles jets again

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says drone incursions are ‘an obvious expansion of the war by Russia’ as neighbouring countries deploy air defences

Romania became the latest Nato member state to report a drone incursion into its airspace , with Poland scrambling aircraft in response to fresh Russian drone strikes just over the border in Ukraine.

Romania’s defence ministry said on Saturday its airspace had been breached by a drone during a Russian attack on infrastructure in neighbouring Ukraine. Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets late on Saturday to monitor the situation after the strikes, the ministry said in statement.

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© Photograph: Jakub Karczmarczyk/EPA

© Photograph: Jakub Karczmarczyk/EPA

© Photograph: Jakub Karczmarczyk/EPA

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Federal Judge Questions Deportations to Ghana

A hearing in the case of five migrants deported to Ghana last week showed how earlier Supreme Court rulings have paved the way for President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

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Judge Tanya S. Chutkan scolded the Trump administration for allowing Ghanaian officials to violate protective orders by U.S. immigration judges, though she also appeared to suggest she had little power to compel the government to return them.
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Mass Firing of Probationary Federal Employees Was Illegal, Judge Rules

Months have passed since the lawsuit was filed, and many of the fired employees have moved on, the judge noted.

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Judge William H. Alsup found the terminations illegal because they came at the direction of the Office of Personnel Management and not the agencies where the employees worked, which hold the authority to hire and fire.
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