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US immigration deletes ‘nation of immigrants’ from mission statement

US immigration deletes ‘nation of immigrants’ from mission statement

-- 2018-02-24 20:05:23

America is no longer a “nation of immigrants”, according to a US government agency that oversees immigration and has emerged as Trump administration’s chief tormentor for users of H-...

I cannot stand Trump, says Apple co-founder

I cannot stand Trump, says Apple co-founder

-- 2018-02-24 19:39:34

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on Saturday said that he “cannot stand” US President Donald Trump and said the way he treats people is very “negative”. “I can never stand...

21 Red Cross staff paid for sexual services

21 Red Cross staff paid for sexual services

-- 2018-02-24 18:34:37

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says 21 members of staff have left their jobs for sexual misconduct in the last three years. The ICRC's director-general, Yves Daccord, said the in...

Death toll from Somalia blasts rises to 45

Death toll from Somalia blasts rises to 45

-- 2018-02-24 17:15:01

The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has risen to 45 from the initially reported 18. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the attack o...

Three bombs rock Rakhine capital

Three bombs rock Rakhine capital

-- 2018-02-24 17:04:54

Three bombs rocked the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine State, Sittwe, early on Saturday. Local police said a policeman was slightly injured and the authorities were still working to determine who was be...

Switzerland city centre shooting leaves two dead

Switzerland city centre shooting leaves two dead

-- 2018-02-24 14:56:44

Two people died in a shooting in Zurich's city centre on Friday that police said did not appear to have any link to terrorism. Police responding to reports of shots fired near the Swiss financial cap...

US all set to open Jerusalem embassy in May

US all set to open Jerusalem embassy in May

-- 2018-02-24 14:38:45

The United States has said it will open its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem in May, a move from Tel Aviv that reverses decades of US policy and is bound to trouble US allies who have already objected....

Asia-Pacific countries commit to empowering rural women

Asia-Pacific countries commit to empowering rural women

FE Online Desk Report 2018-02-24 13:25:52

Ministers and senior government representatives from Asia and the Pacific on Friday committed to ensuring greater empowerment of rural women and girls to improve their standard of living, food securit...

Suicide car bombings kill five in southern Afghanistan

Suicide car bombings kill five in southern Afghanistan

-- 2018-02-24 13:24:44

Two separate suicide car bombings in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, have killed at least five people including two assailants on Saturday morning, said provincial officials. A police off...

Talks on Julian Assange’s release fail

Talks on Julian Assange’s release fail

-- 2018-02-24 12:17:02

Ecuador says the country's latest efforts to negotiate the departure of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy have failed. Foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa said the UK was...

EU leader says UK Brexit plans ‘illusion’

EU leader says UK Brexit plans ‘illusion’

-- 2018-02-24 11:50:50

The UK's approach to the next stage of Brexit negotiations seems to be based on "pure illusion", Donald Tusk says. The European Council president told a news conference in Brussels that the UK was st...

Malaysian PM’s quinoa remark sparks wave of criticism

Malaysian PM’s quinoa remark sparks wave of criticism

-- 2018-02-24 11:24:59

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has sparked storm of criticism after saying he had stopped eating rice in favour of more expensive quinoa. Najib, who is facing a general election within months u...

Myanmar approves $15M for Rakhine border fence

Myanmar approves $15M for Rakhine border fence

-- 2018-02-24 11:21:38

Myanmar's parliament has approved a budget of about $15 million for the construction of a fence and related projects along the border with Bangladesh in Rakhine state, from which about 700,000 members...

Former Trump campaign aide pleads guilty in Russia probe

Former Trump campaign aide pleads guilty in Russia probe

-- 2018-02-24 11:10:16

A former senior official in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Rick Gates, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy against the United States and lying to investigators, and he is cooperat...

Double car blasts kill 18 in Somali capital

Double car blasts kill 18 in Somali capital

-- 2018-02-24 10:44:44

A double car bombing in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu killed at least 18 people and injured 20 others on Friday, said officials. They said the attacks were carried out by the Islamist militant gr...

US plans high-seas crackdown on N Korea

US plans high-seas crackdown on N Korea

-- 2018-02-24 10:33:48

The Trump administration and key Asian allies are preparing to expand interceptions of ships suspected of violating sanctions on North Korea, a plan that could include deploying US Coast Guard forces...

Ex-Trump aide pleads guilty in Russia probe

Ex-Trump aide pleads guilty in Russia probe

-- 2018-02-24 10:20:30

A former senior official in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Rick Gates has pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and lying to investigators. He said on Friday that h...

Mexico’s National University shooting leaves two dead

Mexico’s National University shooting leaves two dead

-- 2018-02-24 10:02:27

At least two people have been killed in a shooting following a dispute at the nation's vast National Autonomous University, said Mexico City officials. The university authority hasn’t identifie...

Trump to announce new sanctions against N Korea

Trump to announce new sanctions against N Korea

-- 2018-02-24 00:00:00

The United States (US) is due to announce its largest package of sanctions yet against North Korea to further pressure Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programme, as South Korea readies itself f...

China seizes control of Anbang insurance

China seizes control of Anbang insurance

-- 2018-02-23 22:18:46

Beijing has cracked down on insurance and financial giant Anbang, taking control of the conglomerate and prosecuting the firm's head. Wu Xiaohui, who was already detained by authorities last June, is...

Authorities seize 400-kg cocaine from Russian Embassy in Argentina

Authorities seize 400-kg cocaine from Russian Embassy in Argentina

-- 2018-02-23 20:01:34

A former Russian diplomatic official and an Argentine police officer were among those arrested in connection with a large cocaine seizure at the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires that prompted a yearlon...

Watchdog to put Pakistan back on terrorist financing list

Watchdog to put Pakistan back on terrorist financing list

-- 2018-02-23 19:56:28

A global money-laundering watchdog has decided to place Pakistan back on its terrorist financing watchlist, a government official and a diplomat said on Friday, in a likely blow to Pakistan’s ec...

Myanmar destroying evidence of atrocities, HRW fears

Myanmar destroying evidence of atrocities, HRW fears

-- 2018-02-23 19:29:39

The Human Rights Watch has said Myanmar may have destroyed evidence of atrocities by troops through demolishing at least 55 villages in the northern part of Rakhine State. The group made the claim on...

Melania’s parents get US green card ‘mysteriously’

Melania’s parents get US green card ‘mysteriously’

-- 2018-02-23 18:17:03

The parents of First Lady Melania Trump have been granted permanent status in the US, said a lawyer. However, questions remain about how and when they received their green cards. Donald Trump has ra...

Australian deputy PM to quit over staffer affair

Australian deputy PM to quit over staffer affair

-- 2018-02-23 17:03:38

Barnaby Joyce says he will resign as Australia's deputy prime minister following a politically damaging saga that began with his affair with a former staffer. Mr Joyce said he would step down on Mond...

US gun lobby slams anti-gun 'elites'

US gun lobby slams anti-gun 'elites'

-- 2018-02-23 15:01:23

The head of the National Rifle Association lashed out at gun control advocates on Thursday, saying Democratic elites are politicising the latest mass school shooting in the United States to try to ero...

May to set out 'way forward' on Brexit

May to set out 'way forward' on Brexit

-- 2018-02-23 15:00:50

British Prime Minister Theresa May will set out “the way forward” for Brexit next week after a meeting with top aides on Thursday intended to resolve differences over strategy that are div...

South Korea justifies Olympic visit by North Korea

South Korea justifies Olympic visit by North Korea

-- 2018-02-23 14:22:43

South Korea said it had approved the Winter Olympic visit by a sanctioned North Korean official, blamed for the 2010 sinking of a South Korean ship that killed 46 sailors, in the pursuit of peace and...

Row over Kenyan oil revenues threatens to delay production

Row over Kenyan oil revenues threatens to delay production

-- 2018-02-23 14:00:01

In the decades before oil was discovered in the northern Kenyan region of Turkana South, 100,000 poor villagers living in arid scrubland relied on a lone church-run health centre in Lokichar town fo...

Scandal-hit Australia deputy PM resigns

Scandal-hit Australia deputy PM resigns

-- 2018-02-23 09:55:15

Barnaby Joyce says he will resign as Australia's deputy prime minister following a politically damaging saga that began with his affair with a former staffer. Mr Joyce said he would step down on Mond...