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Regarding restriction on mining activities within one km from national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, the Bench said, “It has been the consistent view of this court that mining activities within one km of the protected area will be hazardous to the wildlife.

“We direct that mining within national parks and wildlife sanctuaries and within an area of one km from the boundary of such national park or wildlife sanctuary shall not be permissible," the Bench said, citing the top court’s order dated April 26, 2023.

The proposal to notify the Saranda and Sasangdaburu forest areas in West Singhbhum district as a wildlife sanctuary and conservation reserve respectively has been pending for years. »

Speaking to CNN outside the Miraflores presidential palace in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, Maduro called on Trump to make peace, not war, after the world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R Ford, arrived in the region.

Long live peace,” Maduro, 62, declared late on Thursday as he pushed his way through crowds to reach a pro-government rally.

Hours after the Venezuelan leader spoke, Hegseth sought to pile further pressure on Venezuela’s leader, announcing what he called Operation Southern Spear. »

“The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood – and we will protect it,” he said.

SOUTHCOM is the acronym for US Southern Command, whose area of responsibility covers 31 countries through South America, Central America and the Caribbean.

“I think it’s clearly a message that is much more geared towards pressuring Caracas,” Dickinson said. »

Russian intelligence services are linked to people-smuggling gangs facilitating illegal migration into Europe, according to claims from Bulgaria’s interior minister.

He said that “illegal migration inflows are an instrument for hostile regimes to destabilise the European Union and the United Kingdom”.

International policing efforts are attempting to crack down on smuggling gangs who have plotted trafficking routes through the region. »