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Russia’s Lavrov says Iran has ‘inalienable’ right to enrich uranium, openly defying Trump’s demands
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Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said that Iran has an «inalienable» right to enrich uranium for civilian purposes during a state visit to China on Wednesday, according to the Times of Israel.
«The right to enrich uranium for civilian purposes is an inalienable right of the Islamic Republic of Iran,» Lavrov said during a Tuesday press conference following a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to the Times of Israel.
Access to said uranium has been a hard line for U.S. President Donald Trump in ongoing peace negotiations with Iran.
«There will be no enrichment of Uranium,» Trump wrote in an April 8 post on Truth Social, adding that the U.S. would be working with Iran to dig up all remaining nuclear materials in the country to ensure the Islamic Republic would not have access to any uranium.
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Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at a press conference in Beijing, China. April 15, 2026. (Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Vice President JD Vance, who led the U.S. delegation during Saturday negotiations with Iranian officials in Islamabad, Pakistan, doubled down on that red line.
«The enriched uranium that the Iranians currently possess, we have said that we want that to come our of their country, and we would like to take possession of it,» Vance told Fox News’ Brett Baier on Monday.
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese President Xi Jinping participate in a bilateral meeting in Beijing, China. April 15, 2026. (Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
«The president doesn’t want to leave the next president or the president after that to be worrying about this program so we would like to get that material out of the country completely so that the United States has control over it.
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Despite the U.S. hard line, Russia’s top diplomat appeared to openly defy the U.S. demand, speaking in strong terms against what he viewed as American global control.
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov shakes hands with Chinese president Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting in Beijing, China. April 15, 2026 (Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
«Neither China nor Russia, nor the majority of countries throughout the world, can accept this approach,» Lavrov said in remarks posted to a Russian state website.
The peace talks in Iran stalled, according to Vance, because of their refusal to completely give up their nuclear program. Nuclear experts praised the decision.
«The U.S. team was wise to walk away once it became clear the Iranians would not agree to Washington’s core nuclear demands. Tehran maintaining enriched uranium stocks and uranium enrichment capabilities provides it with a pathway to nuclear weapons, plain and simple,» Andrea Stricker, deputy director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ nonproliferation program, told Fox News Digital.
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Fox News Digital contacted the U.S. State Department and the Russian Foreign Ministry for comment but did not hear back immediately.
Fox News Digital’s Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.
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Border czar Homan fires back at Pope Leo, explains what Vatican leaders ‘don’t know’ about immigration
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President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, revealed that he would «welcome» a discussion with Pope Leo XIV amid the administration’s ongoing spat with the Vatican over disagreements on immigration policy and the Iran conflict.
Differing from Vice President JD Vance, who said that «in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality,» Homan said he is «open to discussion with any of them.»
Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Homan, a «lifelong Catholic,» said, «I wish they’d stay out of immigration, they don’t know what they’re talking about.»
However, Homan asserted that the pope’s opinion would change if he understood that «illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.»
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Trump administration border czar Tom Homan, right, said he would «welcome» a discussion with the Vatican about immigration policy amid the administration’s feud with the Holy See. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Matteo Pernaselci – Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)
«If they wore my shoes for 40 years, and talked to a 9-year-old girl that got raped multiple times, or stood in the back of a tractor trailer with 19 dead aliens at my feet, including a 5-year-old boy that baked to death, if they understood the atrocities that happened on the open border, I think their opinion would change,» he said.
Trump’s border czar went on to say that despite intense criticism over the president’s immigration policy, «He’s saving thousands of lives a year because he has a secure border.»
«Where President Trump had the most secure border in the lifetime of this nation, right now, lives are being saved,» he emphasized.
In light of this, Homan said, «I welcome discussion with any of them, because they don’t understand illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.»
«Human traffickers are out of business, right? The cartels are going bankrupt because of that secure border. I wish they’d understand that,» he lamented. «Because if they did, I think they’d have a different opinion.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the Holy See for comment.
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Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Leo has said that «no one has said that the United States should have open borders» and stressed, «I think every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter.» However, he has also taken a critical tone of the administration’s interior immigration enforcement tactics.
«When people are living good lives, and many of them for 10, 15, 20 years, to treat them in a way that is extremely disrespectful, to say the least, and there’s been some violence, unfortunately, I think that the bishops have been very clear in what they said. I think that I would just invite all people in the United States to listen to them,» the pope has said.
Trump criticized the pope’s positions on Sunday in a scathing rebuke on Truth Social.
«Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,» Trump began in a lengthy post.
«Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church,» he concluded.
Regarding the Iran conflict, Trump told reporters, «We don’t like a pope that’s going to say that it’s OK to have a nuclear weapon.»
«We don’t want a pope that says crime is OK in our cities. I don’t like it,» Trump added. «I’m not a big fan of Pope Leo. He’s a very liberal person, and he’s a man that doesn’t believe in stopping crime.»
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Pope Leo XIV met with Vice President JD Vance on May 19, 2025, in Vatican City. (Vatican Media/Vatican Pool – Corbis/Getty Images)
In response, Leo told reporters on Monday, «I have no fear of the Trump administration.»
«The things that I say are certainly not meant as attacks on anyone,» he also said, adding, «I don’t think that the message of the Gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing. I will continue to speak out loudly against war, looking to promote peace, promoting dialogue and multilateral relationships among the states to look for just solutions to problems.»
«Too many people are suffering in the world today,» Leo added. «Too many innocent people are being killed. And I think someone has to stand up and say there’s a better way.»
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For his part, Vance, who has been very vocal about his conversion to Catholicism, told Fox News’s Bret Baier Monday, «I certainly think that in some cases, it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality… and let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy.»
Vance, who has visited the Vatican twice as vice president, dismissed the feud, saying, «We certainly have a good relationship with the Vatican, but we’re also [going to] disagree on substantive questions from time to time. I think that’s a totally reasonable thing.»
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La Justicia panameña dictó nuevas condenas en distintos casos penales que incluyen delitos sexuales, homicidios, robo agravado y femicidio, tras procesos en los que el Ministerio Público logró sustentar con pruebas periciales, testimoniales y documentales la responsabilidad penal de los implicados.
Las decisiones se producen en medio de una agenda judicial activa que abarca hechos ocurridos entre 2021 y 2024 en diversas regiones del país.
En uno de los casos más graves, dos hombres que son hermanos fueron condenados a 15 años de prisión por los delitos de abuso sexual y privación de libertad, tras un juicio oral de tres días en el que la Fiscalía Regional de Chiriquí presentó evidencias contundentes.
Los hechos ocurrieron en 2024, en el corregimiento de Sortová, distrito de Bugaba, donde los condenados, mediante intimidación, abusaron de una menor de edad y además retuvieron contra su voluntad a dos menores dentro de una residencia.
Durante el proceso, el tribunal de juicio oral valoró pruebas materiales, documentales y testimoniales, lo que permitió emitir un fallo condenatorio contra ambos imputados.
La privación de libertad de las víctimas, sumada a la violencia ejercida, fue determinante para establecer la gravedad de la conducta penal. Este caso se enmarca dentro de los esfuerzos del Ministerio Público por sancionar delitos contra la integridad de menores, considerados de alta prioridad dentro del sistema judicial.
En otro proceso, la Fiscalía Metropolitana, a través de la Sección de Homicidio y Femicidio, logró una sentencia de 30 años de prisión contra un hombre identificado como alias “Chombolín”, hallado culpable de homicidio doloso agravado.
El tribunal también impuso una pena accesoria de inhabilitación para ejercer funciones públicas por 10 años, una vez cumplida la condena principal.
El hecho ocurrió el 6 de marzo de 2023, en el corregimiento de Las Mañanitas, específicamente en el Sector 20, donde el sentenciado, en complicidad con un menor de edad, realizó disparos con arma de fuego contra la víctima, provocándole la muerte.
La Fiscalía logró acreditar la responsabilidad penal mediante testimonios y peritajes, consolidando el caso ante el tribunal.
En una causa distinta, relacionada con delitos contra el patrimonio, la Sección de Asistencia a Juicio de la Fiscalía Metropolitana obtuvo una sentencia de 15 años de prisión para un hombre por robo agravado, en hechos ocurridos el 5 de junio de 2021 en el corregimiento de Betania.
El fallo se produjo luego de audiencias realizadas los días 19 y 25 de marzo de 2026, donde se expuso la teoría del caso y se presentaron múltiples elementos probatorios.
De acuerdo con la investigación, el condenado actuó junto a dos personas no identificadas, quienes ingresaron a una residencia en Villa Cáceres y, mediante amenaza con arma de fuego, despojaron a las víctimas de celulares y dinero en efectivo. Además de la pena principal, el tribunal impuso una inhabilitación para ejercer funciones públicas por seis años, una vez cumplida la condena.
Finalmente, en la provincia de Darién, la Fiscalía Regional logró una condena de 30 años de prisión por el delito de femicidio, tras demostrar la culpabilidad de un hombre en perjuicio de su pareja sentimental.
El hecho ocurrió la noche del 16 de noviembre de 2024, en el distrito de Chepigana, donde el agresor utilizó un arma blanca para cometer el crimen.
En este caso, el Ministerio Público sustentó la acusación con pruebas documentales, periciales y testimoniales, que permitieron establecer la responsabilidad penal del acusado.
La violencia de género y el vínculo entre víctima y victimario fueron elementos clave en la tipificación del delito como femicidio, uno de los crímenes más severamente sancionados por la legislación panameña.
A la fecha, se han registrado 158 homicidios en el país. Según las autoridades panameñas, 76% de esos casos guarda relación con estructuras vinculadas al narcotráfico. Las estadísticas oficiales reflejan que la mayor cantidad de homicidios en 2026 se concentra en el distrito de Panamá, con 58 casos; seguido de San Miguelito, con 28; Colón, con 23; y Arraiján, con 13.
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