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US President Donald Trump will take a victory lap Wednesday as he signs a bill cracking down on migrant criminal suspects -- his first piece of legislation since he returned to power vowing a blitz on illegal immigration. The ceremony at the White House comes as Trump faces pushback over his broader plans to overhaul…
26 Jan
Donald Trump has shaken up America and the world in an extraordinary first week back in the White House that saw him remake the US political universe in his own image. On his first day, Trump signed more executive orders than any president in history, consolidating his power over every lever of the US government.…
24 Jan
US President Donald Trump made his first trip Friday since returning to power, heading to fire-scorched California and hurricane-hit North Carolina as a row blazed over disaster funding. The visit came as the White House said that deportation flights on military aircraft had begun, launching Trump's promised operation to expel "millions" of undocumented migrants. On…
23 Jan
Congolese helicopter gunships swooped low over the plains to fire volleys of rockets and troops trucked towards the front line to halt Rwanda-backed fighters advancing on DR Congo's eastern provincial capital after capturing a string of towns. The Mi-24s -- rarely used because of the M23 and Rwanda anti-aircraft defences -- fly low over the…
23 Jan
A judge on Thursday jailed for life a British teenager who killed three young girls in a frenzied stabbing spree, as the families wept in court at horrific details of the "extreme violence" he inflicted on them.Sentencing violence-obsessed Axel Rudakubana to 13 life terms for the three murders and 10 attempted murders, judge Julian Goose…
22 Jan
Russia said Wednesday it had taken control of a village in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, a westward push that is piling additional pressure on Ukrainian forces across the sprawling front line. The defence ministry said in a statement that its forces had taken the village of Zapadne on the western bank of the Oskil River,…
22 Jan
US President Donald Trump ordered federal employees of diversity offices to be put on paid leave by Wednesday night, and called a Washington bishop "nasty" after she asked him to "have mercy" for migrants and LGBTQ children. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that US government workers in diversity offices must be put on…
21 Jan
A coalition of Democratic-leaning states launched legal action Tuesday seeking to block Donald Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship in the United States. The lawsuit filed by 18 states, including California and New York, comes the day after Trump took office and quickly unveiled a phalanx of executive orders he hopes will reshape American immigration.…
21 Jan
Former US national security advisor John Bolton, the target of an alleged Iranian assassination plot, said Tuesday that President Donald Trump has withdrawn his Secret Service protection. Bolton, who served in the White House during Trump's first term but has since become an outspoken critic, said he was "disappointed but not surprised" by the move.…
21 Jan
Canada vowed strong pushback while Mexico urged calm on Tuesday in the face of US President Donald Trump's trade threats that risk throwing their economies into disarray. The US president has accused both neighbors of being lax in preventing migrants and illicit drugs from coming into the United States, and called for a tightening of…
21 Jan
President Donald Trump announced plans to weed out some 1,000 opponents from the US government Tuesday on his first full day in power after taking office with a shock-and-awe blitz of executive orders. Trump was due to meet with leaders of the narrow Republican majority in Congress at the White House as he tries…
21 Jan
Separatist rebels in northern Mali have said that a Spanish national kidnapped in mid-January between Algeria and Mali has been freed thanks to their intervention and handed over to Algerian authorities in good health. There has been no confirmation from Spanish or Algerian authorities. The Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), a coalition of separatist rebel groups,…
20 Jan
Donald Trump has taken the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States of America, declaring that it is imperative to overhaul the nation's trade system to protect the people of the country. He also noted that the decline of the nation over the years has come to an end, declaring that…
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