ESWATINI: A group of 10 migrants deported from the United States arrived early today in the African nation of Eswatini, authorities there said.

They are the latest of more than 40 deportees sent to Africa since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five nations there to take migrants under the new third-country deportation programme that rights groups and others have protested against.

NORTHERN IRELAND: First Minister Michelle O’Neill has described the discovery of an explosive device outside a Sinn Fein constituency office on Sunday night as an “attack on democracy.”

The pipe bomb, which was later disarmed by the army, was left at the office shared by Newry and Armagh MP Daire Hughes and Infrastructure Minister Lizz Kimmins in Monaghan Street in Newry, Co Down.

Ms O’Neill said the incident was “absolutely horrific,” but that she and her colleagues “will not be deterred.”

UNITED STATES: A federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops from Texas and California to Portland, Oregon.

The same court denied President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy Oregon’s own National Guard to Portland.

Portland is the latest Democrat-led city targeted by Mr Trump during his administration’s clampdown on immigration.

SUDAN: The International Criminal Court today convicted Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, a leader of the feared Janjaweed militia of 27 counts of leading a campaign of atrocities including rape and mass murder committed in the Sudanese region of Darfur more than 20 years ago.

He will be sentenced at a later date.