内容摘要：A flier looking for Grant Hardin hangs on the glass of a business, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in downtown Calico Rockt, Ark. (AP Photo/Nicholas Ingram)

A flier looking for Grant Hardin hangs on the glass of a business, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in downtown Calico Rockt, Ark. (AP Photo/Nicholas Ingram)

with unwanted migrants.Rwanda’s foreign minister confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday that

about a potential agreement to host deported migrants, after telling state media the talks were in the “early stage.” Olivier Nduhungirehe did not give details but said it was consistent with Rwanda’s long-standing commitment to the pursuit of migration solutions.The U.S. State Department declined to comment on a potential deal, but said engagement with foreign governments is an important part of the U.S. government’s policy to deter illegal migration.Local media reports in Rwanda have suggested the U.S. likely would fund a program to have migrants integrated into society through stipends and job assistance initiatives.

with Rwanda in 2022 to send migrants who arrive in the U.K. as stowaways or in boats to the East African country, where their asylum claims would be processed and, if successful, they would stay.The plan was stalled by legal challenges and criticized by human rights groups, who called it unethical to deport migrants to a country 4,000 miles (6,400 miles) away that they don’t want to live in.

The plan collapsed last year after the new Labour government took charge. The U.K.’s new home secretary called the plan the “most shocking waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen” and estimated the cost at 700 million pounds ($904 million) in public funds.

No flights to Rwanda took off under the plan, but the U.K. government said the failed plan’s costs included 290 million pounds in payments to Rwanda. Rwanda has said it was not obligated to refund the money.NUEVA YORK (AP) — Un grupo de científicos ha identificado la evidencia más antigua conocida de herramientas hechas por seres humanos a partir de huesos de ballena.

Los huesos, a los que se dio forma de proyectiles angostos para la caza, fueron descubiertos en excavaciones que datan de hace más de un siglo en el Golfo de Vizcaya, cerca de España y Francia. Los científicos pensaban que las herramientas eran bastante antiguas, pero muchas eran pequeños fragmentos, por lo que era difícil determinar su edad.Los avances tecnológicos de la última década han hecho posible datar las herramientas más antiguas en aproximadamente 20.000 años. Los científicos descubrieron que los huesos provenían de ballenas azules, ballenas de aleta, cachalotes y otras especies.

Vicki Szabo de la Universidad de Western Carolina, quien estudia la historia de la caza de ballenas y no participó en la reciente investigación, afirma: “Los humanos y las ballenas claramente han estado encontrándose durante mucho tiempo”.Los científicos piensan que los antiguos humanos fabricaban instrumentos de hueso de ballena en lugares como el Ártico y el Pacífico Sur. Existen pruebas sólidas de herramientas de ese material que datan de hace unos 5.000 años, pero la nueva investigación publicada el martes en la revista Nature Communications retrocede la línea de tiempo.