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Tough talk as military exercises get underway in Iran

Jim Mattis not planning to boost troop numbers in the Middle East US imposes fresh sanctions Tehran denounces them as “illegal” Military exercises have got underway in Iran. The country’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC):http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7064353.stm, a branch of the armed forces, say the exercises show Tehran is prepared to confront the threat posed by what […]

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Middle East, USA

Seattle federal judge orders nationwide halt to immigration ban

SEATTLE—In one of the strongest blows yet to President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban, a federal judge in Seattle on Friday ordered an immediate nationwide halt to enforcement of the order that has caused havoc at airports and sown confusion among thousands of visa holders and refugees. The temporary restraining order from U.S. District Judge

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International, Middle East, USA

Knesset Speaker to Paul Ryan: Embassy move needs wide support

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein met yesterday with his counterpart, House of Representatives head Paul Ryan and afterwards with the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate, Bob Corker. At the meeting with Ryan Edelstein expressed his support for transferring the American embassy to Jerusalem and said that he would be happy if the

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Middle East, USA

Argentina President Mauricio Macri enacts emergency immigration policies

History, border stances compared to Trump’s CORDOBA, Argentina | With President Trump’s travel ban dominating global headlines, another businessman-turned-president is using his executive powers to toughen immigration rules and speed the deportations of undesirable migrants. But unlike Mr. Trump, Argentina’s Mauricio Macri isn’t making good on a campaign promise but trying to boost his party’s

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International, USA

Kellyanne Conway concedes error: ‘Honest mistakes abound’

WASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, admitted Friday that she mistakenly cited a nonexistent “massacre” while defending the president’s order suspending entry to refugees and travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations. Conway’s backtrack came on Twitter, hours after she received widespread criticism for an MSNBC interview in which she cited “the

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Middle East, USA

Trump holds first meeting with business advisory council, minus a few major CEOs

President Donald Trump’s business policy forum met for the first time Friday morning — minus a few key chief executives who’d been named to the group last year. Absent from the White House gathering were Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, who quit the panel this week amid fallout over Trump’s executive order on immigration, and Walt

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USA

Trump national security aide is out from under the cloud of gun charge

ARLINGTON, Va. — A Virginia court dismissed a weapons charge Friday against a White House national security aide, but not before an unwanted spotlight was cast on one of the architects of President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policies. Sebastian Gorka, charged last year with trying to board an airplane with a loaded handgun, is an

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International, USA

Nearly 60,000 visas revoked since Trump’s immigration order

Nearly 60,000 visas were revoked after President Donald Trump’s executive order to suspend refugee resettlements and other admissions from seven predominantly Muslim countries, a government lawyer said in a Virginia federal court Friday. The revelation came during a hearing on a lawsuit filed against the president’s order last week by visa holders prevented from entering

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International, Middle East, USA

White House bolstered by good jobs report: ‘The markets knew’ Donald Trump ‘would deliver’

The White House reveled Friday in the first jobs report of the new administration that showed the U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in January, saying President Trump had already taken steps to turn the economy around. “Today’s report reflects the consumer confidence that the Trump presidency has inspired,” said White House press secretary Sean Spicer,

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USA

Trump Treasury pick Steven Mnuchin sued in revived film fraud case

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary nominee, Steven Mnuchin, has been sued again by a film financier that accuses Mnuchin and others of fraud related to the collapse of movie and TV company Relativity Media. RKA Film Financing, in an amended complaint filed Thursday in New York County Supreme Court, renewed its claim

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA