内容摘要：The strike occurred just hours after Russia and Ukraine held their first face-to-face talks in more than three years. Little was achieved but a prisoner swap was agreed.

The strike occurred just hours after Russia and Ukraine held their first face-to-face talks in more than three years. Little was achieved but a prisoner swap was agreed.

The secretary of Homeland Security at the time, Alejandro N Mayorkas, said the Biden administration had taken the decision "due to extraordinary and temporary conditions in Venezuela that prevent nationals from returning safely".He said the South American country was suffering "a complex humanitarian crisis marked by widespread hunger and malnutrition, a growing influence and presence of non-state armed groups, repression, and a crumbling infrastructure".

According to the UN's refugee agency, almost eight million Venezuelans have left their homeland since the crisis began in 2014. Most of them are living in Latin American and Caribbean countries but hundreds of thousands moved to the United States.The Trump administration wanted to end protections and work permits for migrants with TPS in April 2025, more than a year before they were originally supposed to end in October 2026.Lawyers representing the US government argued the California federal court, the US District Court for the Northern District of California, had undermined "the Executive Branch's inherent powers as to immigration and foreign affairs," when it stopped the administration from ending protections and work permits in April.

Ahilan Arulanantham, who represents TPS holders in the case, told the BBC he believed this to be "the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern US history"."That the Supreme Court authorized this action in a two-paragraph order with no reasoning is truly shocking," Mr Arulanantham said. "The humanitarian and economic impact of the Court's decision will be felt immediately, and will reverberate for generations."

Because it was an emergency appeal, justices on the Supreme Court did not provide a reasoning for the ruling.

The court's order only noted one judge's dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson."The market for manufacturing biodiesel across Europe is in a very poor state at the moment", Mr Bateson said.

He added: "Margins are very poor, energy costs are high, staff costs are high and we are struggling to compete with this alternative renewable fuel HVO in the UK, which is coming in in a subsidised form from the US."According to Mr Bateson, when hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) is produced or blended in the US, the companies doing that work receive credits from the government, which he said stayed with the product when it comes to the UK, making it cheaper.

It is an issue the Government here in the UK said it had been looking at, but time appears to be running out.Greenergy's Lincolnshire site is one of just four left across the UK, after Ardent Energy mothballed a similar facility near Motherwell last year.