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Immigrants and their supporters have slammed US President Donald Trump for a series of tweets that ostensibly ends any hopes of a deal on the programme that protects hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation. “Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. © Maksim Blinov / Sputnik Russia’s top diplomat has lashed out at UK and US rhetoric against Moscow over the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal, saying it’s worse now than it was during the Cold War. “There has been a lot of talk that the situation is worse than […]

Customers choose imported fruits at a supermarket in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. [Photo/VCG] China announced to impose new tariffs on 128 imports from the United States starting Monday in response to the new US tariffs on steel and aluminum that took effect a week ago. The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council decided to impose […]

A Facebook picture of Joanna Demafelis who had lost contact with her family in May 2016. Manila looked for Filipino domestic helper in Kuwait when she was reported missing, but gave up after the agency that recruited her to the Middle East closed down. Dubai: A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a Lebanese man and his […]

Candidates wait for the test to begin. Jobs in Italy’s public sector are so sought-after that candidates flock from across the country to go through a gruelling selection process. This Wednesday, 824 nervous applicants, most of them young university graduates, were whittled down to around 500 in a gruelling process to get a job as […]

© Daniel Leal-Olivas / AFP Russia’s Embassy in London has sent a list of 14 questions to the UK Foreign Ministry, demanding that it reveals details of the investigation into the nerve-agent poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter. The questions, provided in full below, include a demand to clarify whether samples of […]

South Korean taekwondo athletes perform at the Taekwondo Hall of Fame in Pyongyang, Sunday. / Courtesy of World Taekwondo Headquarters South Korean entertainers performed in Pyongyang for the first time in 13 years, presenting a wide variety of K-pop music to the reclusive regime. “I sincerely hope that the South-North summit will go well and […]

Friday’s rallies in the Gaza Strip coincided with Land Day, which commemorates the murder of six Palestinians by Israeli forces in 1976 Kuwaiti draft Security Council statement demanded an investigation into Gaza’s Land Day rallies in which 17 were killed. Friday’s rallies in the Gaza Strip coincided with Land Day, which commemorates the murder of […]

File photo: AFP Turkey on Saturday warned France against increasing its military presence in Syria, saying it would be an “invasion”, as tensions between Paris and Ankara remained high. Temperatures were raised after President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday met a delegation of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) made up of Kurdish and Arab fighters. Kurdish […]

CNN)President Donald Trump is continuing his attack against Amazon, accusing the company of scamming the US Postal Service. “While we are on the subject, it is reported that the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon. That amounts to Billions of Dollars,” Trump tweeted Saturday morning. “The […]