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New Zealand PM voices disagreement with US refugee policy

WELLINGTON – New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English on Monday said he disagrees with the United States’ entry restrictions on citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries. However, English said he had not made his views known to US President Donald Trump, Radio New Zealand reported. Trump has issued an executive order preventing people from Iran, […]

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International, Middle East, USA

SAG Awards: A night when politics trumped the prizes themselves

LOS ANGELES — Anyone tuning in to the SAG Awards on Sunday thinking they might be escaping news headlines for a couple of hours was quickly disabused of that notion as winner after winner used the platform to speak out against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. “This immigrant ban is a blemish and is un-American,”

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

After weekend of silence, Toomey backs Trump’s ban on refugees

WASHINGTON — Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who argued against a proposed ban on Muslim immigration in December 2015, said Monday he supports President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries. After a weekend of silence amid national turmoil and confusion, Toomey said in a statement Monday morning: “I

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International, Middle East, USA

Obama criticizes Trump a little more than one week after leaving office

President George W. Bush stayed out of President Barack Obama’s business for the eight years Mr. Obama ruled the country. It took a little more than one week for Mr. Obama to criticize President Donald Trump. Through his spokesman, Mr. Obama said he was “heartened” by all of the anti-Trump protests that have erupted throughout

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International, Middle East, USA

Trump’s Disapproval Ratings Surge Over Weekend

President Donald Trump’s disapproval ratings spiked over the weekend, making him the first president to receive the highest disapproval ratings within the least amount of time, according to a recent Gallup survey. The presidential approval study, which has been conducted by Gallup since the Truman administration, concluded that more than half the nation was dissatisfied

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International, Middle East, USA

Twitter Users Plead: ‘Stop President Bannon’

There are at least thousands of people who don’t believe President Donald Trump could really be behind the executive order that blocks immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations and turns away Syrian refugees fleeing war and destruction. Instead, they’re pointing to a likelier suspect—Trump strategist Stephen Bannon—and want him stopped. RELATED: Trump aides say the immigration

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International, Middle East, USA

Israeli Consul General: U.S. Embassy should be moved

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Neither the United States nor Israel should be intimidated by Palestinian predictions of violence if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Sam Gundwerg, Israel’s consul general in Los Angeles, said Monday during a San Diego

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Culture and weather in London, Paris, Jerusalem

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — ‘He who tires of London has tired of life,’ wrote Samuel Johnson, and I dare say he had a point. Even in the dead of winter, when the bone-chilling cold really does chill every inch of bone in your body, the place has its pleasures provided you are suitably

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Trump Lashes Out At McCain, Graham

President Donald Trump lashed out at Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham Sunday, accusing the two of “looking to start World War III.” McCain, R-Ariz., and Graham, R-S.C., warned Trump suspending arrivals of refugees and others from seven Muslim-majority countries would do more to help terrorist recruiting efforts than enhance U.S. security. “Ultimately, we fear

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Middle East, USA

Trump seems unmoved by opposition to immigration order

WASHINGTON — There was swift backlash from fellow Republicans, world leaders and thousands of angry Americans. But President Donald Trump again refused to back down. Trump insisted that his order barring citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States was the correct policy even as confusion reined at airports where immigrants, some green-card

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International, Middle East, USA

Trump Ban Leaves 12-Year-Old Girl Facing Return to War-Torn Yemen

Ahmed Ali spent Sunday at a hotel near Djibouti’s International Airport, anxiously checking CNN on his phone to see if the Trump Administration would allow him to fly to the United States with Eman, his 12-year-old daughter. Ali, 39, is a U.S. citizen. But his daughter had been living with grandparents in Yemen while American

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Middle East, USA