More than 150 bombs from World War II have been found under a children’s playground in northern England, with concerns that more may remain, officials said.

The bombs were discovered as a construction project was underway to renovate the Scotts Park playground in Wooler, a small town in Northumberland, England, that is near the border with Scotland. BBC reported that workers had found a “suspicious object” on Jan. 14 while digging foundations. It turned out to be a practice bomb, or a nonexplosive bomb that is used for training but can still be harmful.

The Wooler Parish Council enlisted Brimstone Site Investigations, a company that specializes in unexploded ordnance, to investigate the site, council officials said in a news release.

Brimstone arrived on Jan. 23 for what was supposed to be a two-day survey, “but it soon became apparent that the scale of the problem was far greater than anyone had anticipated,” the parish council wrote.

On the first day, Brimstone identified an additional 65 practice bombs, each weighing 10 pounds, as well as smoke cartridges.

On the second day of work at the site, Brimstone recovered an additional 90 practice bombs and safely removed them to a designated storage area, the council wrote.

The BBC reported that the Ministry of Defense had ordered a full survey of the site.

Though the bombs are practice bombs, “they do still carry a charge” and require removal by specialists, the parish council’s release said, adding, “These have been found with their fuse and contents still intact — and the detonator burster and smoke filling in particular can still be potentially hazardous.”

A spokesperson for the Northumberland County Council called the discovery “unexpected.”

Mark Mather, an official in Wooler, told the BBC that about a third of the park had been cleared and it was possible there were more bombs.

“It’s quite something to think the children have been playing on bombs,” Mr. Mather said.

Mr. Mather said that Wooler had been a training center for the Home Guard, a volunteer citizen militia considered the last line of defense against the Germans during World War II.

“After the war, it looked like they just buried all the ordnance in one of the pits,” Mr. Mather said.

The Ministry of Defense said that a team had visited the site twice in January, the BBC reported, but it did not offer further details.

The Wooler Parish Council said it hoped contractors could resume work in April once the site had been declared safe.

Brimstone, the Ministry of Defense, Mr. Mather, the Wooler Parish Council and the Northumberland County Council did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Two flights carrying Venezuelan migrants from the United States back to Venezuela will arrive late Monday in the capital, Caracas, the country’s communication’s ministry said.

The flights are a major victory for the Trump administration, which made a campaign promise to deport millions of undocumented migrants. To accomplish this goal, President Trump needs Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s autocratic president who has found himself increasingly isolated by world leaders, to agree to accept some of those people.

Two planes owned by the Venezuelan airline Conviasa left Fort Bliss in Texas, where migrants subject to deportation are being held, at around 10:45 a.m. They were set to arrive in Caracas at 7:15 p.m., according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.

The White House confirmed the move in a message on X.

“Repatriation flights to Venezuela have resumed,” said the post. “MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.”

Following a rupture in the relationship between the United States and Venezuela in 2019, Mr. Maduro’s government had refused to accept deported citizens, except during a brief period in the Biden administration.

The announcement about the flights follows a recent visit by a Trump adviser, Richard Grenell, to Venezuela. Mr. Grenell returned to the United States with six Americans who had been detained by the Maduro government.

In authorizing the flights, the United States is sending migrants back to a nation run by an autocrat who has spent years imprisoning political opponents and others he views as unpatriotic.

In a statement to the news media, Mr. Maduro’s government said it had been informed by U.S. authorities that several deportees were part of a criminal group called the Tren de Aragua.

Neither the U.S. nor Venezuela has provided proof of this.

But Mr. Maduro’s government assured the public that the returning Venezuelans accused of gang membership “will be subject to a rigorous investigation as soon as they touch Venezuelan soil and will be subject to the actions provided for in our justice system.”

For years the Venezuelan justice system has been used a tool of the governments of Mr. Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.

Laura Dib, a Venezuela analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America, said the politicization of the justice system had been documented extensively by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, United Nations treaty bodies and the United Nations Fact Finding Mission in Venezuela.

“I don’t expect them to have any guarantee of due process upon return,” she said of the deportees. “If anything, I think there could be retaliations against people that had fled to the U.S.”

Venezuela has experienced an extraordinary economic crisis in recent years. Many people have left the country for economic reasons. But others, including former members of the military and political activists, have fled out of fear of persecution.

And in recent months, Mr. Maduro’s government has been rounding up not just political activists known for vocal anti-governments statements, but also people who pass by protests and Venezuelans who appear to have little involvement in politics.

In his first term, President Trump took a hard line against Mr. Maduro, imposing economic sanctions and backing an opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, in an attempt to oust the Venezuelan leader. In 2020, federal prosecutors in the United States accused Mr. Maduro of involvement in a narcotrafficking conspiracy, and the State Department offered $15 million for help in his arrest. (Mr. Biden raised it $25 million.)

But the first weeks of Mr. Trump’s second term have been marked by a friendlier approach to Mr. Maduro.

Mr. Grenell’s visit to Caracas in January was an important win for Mr. Maduro, who is accused of stealing a recent election.

It was the first public visit of a U.S. official to Caracas in years, lending an air of legitimacy to a leader who has used force and repression to remain in power.

A photograph of Mr. Grenell and Mr. Maduro smiling together was shared widely by Venezuelan officials and in state media.

In the statement to the news media, the Venezuelan government said it had reached a deal with the Trump administration to have Venezuelan planes retrieve its citizens so that the transfer could be done “with absolute respect for their dignity and human rights.

The government also called for “a new beginning of relations between both countries” in which they could “establish mechanisms of direct cooperation” to combat organized crime and smuggler networks “that have harmed and defrauded thousands of our compatriots by bringing them to the United States.”

President Trump said on Monday that he could cut aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refused his demand to permanently take in most Palestinians from Gaza, substantially increasing the pressure on key allies in the region to back his audacious proposal to relocate the entire population of the territory in order to redevelop it.

“If they don’t agree, I would conceivably withhold aid,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office a day ahead of a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan.

Both Jordan and Egypt have rejected any suggestion that Palestinians be relocated to their countries.

Mr. Trump doubled down on the idea of forced displacement of roughly two million Palestinians, a move that some scholars have said would amount to a war crime and ethnic cleansing. In an interview with Fox News broadcast on Monday, Mr. Trump said he did not envision Palestinians who left Gaza to make way for the redevelopment plan ever returning.

Asked in the interview whether the Palestinians would eventually “have the right to return” to Gaza after his proposed construction projects had been completed, the president said, “No, they wouldn’t.”

As for where they might go, he said: “I think I could make a deal with Jordan. I think I could make a deal with Egypt.”

Mr. Trump’s proposal has sent shock waves throughout the Middle East and is sure to dominate the meeting with the Jordanian leader during an especially volatile time in the region.

The president said from the White House that if Hamas did not release all the remaining Israeli hostages by midday on Saturday, the cease-fire agreement with Israel should be canceled.

“All hell is going to break out,” Mr. Trump said, while acknowledging that the choice over ending the cease-fire ultimately fell to Israel.

Mr. Trump’s remarks about the relocation plan turned up the pressure on King Abdullah, who would likely be engulfed in his own domestic crisis if Palestinians were forced into Jordan. More than half of Jordan’s population is estimated to be Palestinian; the nation is already unsettled by tensions between citizens of Palestinian descent and those who are not, analysts say.

“What Mr. Trump has done is put the future of the Kingdom of Jordan on the line,” said Khalil Jahshan, the executive director of the Arab Center Washington D.C. “The strongest political movement in Jordan does not accept the idea that Jordan is Palestine.”

King Abdullah on Monday was expected to meet with Steven Witkoff, Mr. Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, who made a rare trip to Gaza last month, becoming the most senior U.S. official to do so in many years.

That the president is willing to apply pressure to key allies in the region also indicates that he has little intention of backing away from his fast-hardening ideas about U.S. ownership of the war-torn territory and the displacement of Palestinians.

In the interview with Bret Baier of Fox News, Mr. Trump provided his most extensive comments on how he envisions moving the population of Gaza to Jordan, Egypt and other nations in the region.

“We’ll build safe communities a little bit away from where they are where all of this danger is,” he said. “In the meantime, I would own this. Think of it as a real estate development for the future. It would be a beautiful piece of land.”

Once moved out, he said, Palestinians “would have much better housing” than they have in Gaza and would not need to return.

“I’m talking about building a permanent place for them,” Mr. Trump said.