US to deport hundreds of Iranians after deal with Tehran.

The United States is planning to deport some 400 Iranians, most of whom entered the country illegally, as part of US President Donald Trump’s broader crackdown on immigration.

“In the first step, they decided to deport 120 Iranians who entered the US illegally, most of whom through Mexico,” the Iranian foreign ministry’s director general for parliament affairs, senior Iranian official Hossein Noushabadi, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

The deportation, an uncommon instance of cooperation between the two countries, came after months of talks, according to the New York Times, which first reported the move.

Noushabadi said the US was “planning to deport around 400 Iranians, most of whom entered the country illegally, in line with the new anti-immigrant approach of the US government.”

The first group of 120 would reach Iran in the next one or two days, he said.

The New York Times reported that a US-chartered flight took off from Louisiana on Monday and was scheduled to arrive in Iran via Qatar sometime on Tuesday.

Some of the Iranians had volunteered to leave after being in detention centers for months, and some had not, the newspaper said.

Noushabadi called on Washington to respect the rights of Iranian migrants in the United States.

Elon Musk’s Father, Errol Musk, Accused of Sexually Abusing His Children and Stepchildren.

Errol Musk, the 79-year-old father of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren dating back to 1993, according to a Tuesday report by The New York Times.

The Times suggested these allegations may explain why Elon Musk rarely speaks about his father, despite once briefly serving as an adviser to Donald Trump’s second administration. The outlet reported that members of Elon’s family have sought his help over the years, prompting him on occasion to step in.

Errol Musk strongly rejected the claims, describing them as “false,” “nonsense,” and “absolute rubbish” in responses shared with the Guardian and New York Times.

Based on court records, personal correspondence, social worker reports, and family interviews, the Times said the earliest accusation came in 1993, when Errol’s four-year-old stepdaughter told relatives he had touched her inappropriately. Years later, she alleged she caught him sniffing her dirty underwear. Other family members also accused him of abusing two of his daughters and a stepson.

According to the report, police launched three separate investigations over the years. Two ended without charges, while the outcome of the third remains unclear.

Errol Musk dismissed the allegations as a plot to extort money from Elon. “There was no evidence because this is nonsense,” he told the Times.

Elon Musk himself has publicly described his father as a deeply troubling figure. In a 2017 Rolling Stone interview, he said Errol had done “almost every evil thing you could possibly think of,” recalling that he went to live with his father at age 10 out of pity but later realized “it was not a good idea.”

The Times noted that Errol Musk, who has at least nine children and stepchildren across three marriages, “maintains a powerful grip over much of the family.” Elon Musk declined to comment on the allegations.

55-year-old Food Network Star Anne Burrell ended it all, Medical Examiner Confirms.

The death of celebrity chef Anne Burrell has been linked to her ending it all by the New York Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

According to a report cited by The New York Times, the 55-year-old died from “acute intoxication due to the combined effects of depheohydramine, ethanol, cetirizine, and amphetamine.”

Burrell, known for hosting Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and co-hosting Worst Cooks in America on the Food Network, was found unresponsive in her Brooklyn home on June 17. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Keep your America, Mr Trump, and we’ll keep our Africa
In trying to shut us out, Trump may be doing what African leaders have long failed to do: Push us to stand on our own.

On June 16, The New York Times disclosed that United States President Donald Trump is considering broadening his travel ban list to include as many as 36 additional countries, most of them African – including my country, Zimbabwe.

Twelve days earlier, Trump had enacted a proclamation barring citizens from 12 nations from entering the US. Seven of them – Chad, Congo Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan – are African.

He also imposed partial travel restrictions, rather than a complete ban, on individuals from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. Citizens from these nations are barred from permanently relocating to the US or obtaining tourist or student visas.

As promised on the campaign trail, Trump is cracking down on immigration.

For the first time in my life, I now face the extraordinary prospect of being barred from travelling to the US – a nation that several of my family members and friends call home.

My cousin, Dr Anna Mhaka, for example, completed her medical studies and practised exclusively in the US. Spencer Matare, a former classmate, has lived in Indianapolis for more than two decades and is a US citizen.

Despite the Trump administration’s political grandstanding and vilification of migrants – both legal and undocumented – Anna and Spencer, like millions of others, are industrious, law-abiding members of US society.

I know many in Africa hope to follow in their footsteps, and are deeply alarmed by the growing barriers to migration that Trump has erected.

Yet, I am not one of them.