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‘US govt holds right to detain border-crossing parents with children’

‘US govt holds right to detain border-crossing parents with children’

-- 2018-06-30 16:29:20

The US government said in a court filing on Friday that it has the right to detain children and parents caught crossing the US border illegally for the duration of their immigration proceedings. A 19...

US ambassador to Estonia quits over Trump’s anti-Europe remarks

US ambassador to Estonia quits over Trump’s anti-Europe remarks

-- 2018-06-30 10:51:03

The US ambassador to Estonia is resigning, reportedly in frustration at remarks made by President Donald Trump about America’s European allies. James D Melville revealed in a Facebook post that...

US ends 70 years of military presence in Seoul

US ends 70 years of military presence in Seoul

-- 2018-06-29 17:41:49

The United States formally ended seven decades of military presence in South Korea’s capital on Friday with the opening of a new headquarters farther from the tense border with North Korea, repo...

Newspaper staff publish edition in defiance after shooting attack

Newspaper staff publish edition in defiance after shooting attack

-- 2018-06-29 15:36:33

Staff at the Capital Gazette have published a Friday edition, after a gunman killed five people and injured more at the local paper's office. Chase Cook, a reporter at the Annapolis publication, had...

Gunman attacks US newspaper, killing five

Gunman attacks US newspaper, killing five

-- 2018-06-29 11:49:31

A gunman has opened fire at a local newspaper office in US state Maryland, killing five people and injuring others in what police said was a "targeted attack". Staff at the Capital Gazette in Annapol...

Trump, Putin meeting in Finland on July 16

Trump, Putin meeting in Finland on July 16

-- 2018-06-28 18:24:09

US President Donald Trump will meet with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16. The White House revealed the details of the high-stakes meeting in a statement on Thursda...

UNICEF spends US$ 550m to tackle humanitarian crises in 2017

UNICEF spends US$ 550m to tackle humanitarian crises in 2017

-- 2018-06-28 17:52:57

UNICEF spent over US$ 550 million to deliver emergency and life-saving supplies to children in urgent need of assistance last year since famine, droughts, conflict and malnutrition threatened the surv...

US court bars separation of immigrants from children

US court bars separation of immigrants from children

-- 2018-06-27 19:29:25

A district court of the United States has imposed a bar on separation of immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally. As per the decision, immigration agents of th...

Bolton due in Russia to talk Trump-Putin meeting

Bolton due in Russia to talk Trump-Putin meeting

-- 2018-06-27 15:06:40

The national security adviser of US President Donald Trump is due in Moscow to lay the groundwork for a possible US-Russia summit. John Bolton, the national security adviser, will meet Russian Foreig...

US top court upholds Trump's travel ban

US top court upholds Trump's travel ban

-- 2018-06-26 21:05:21

The US supreme court has upheld the travel ban imposed by the country's president Donald Trump targeting several Muslim-majority countries. The court handed down a 5-4 ruling on Tuesday, in a signifi...

Wealthy Venezuelans beat water crisis drilling private wells

Wealthy Venezuelans beat water crisis drilling private wells

-- 2018-06-26 17:04:05

Reaching for the faucet felt like a frustrating game of chance for Elizabeth Robles. At first, water flowed only one or two days a week, so Robles, president of her homeowners’ association, hir...

Fire cuts cellphone service in Cuba

Fire cuts cellphone service in Cuba

-- 2018-06-26 13:25:24

A fire broke out on Monday at a technological facility in the telecommunications centre in Villa Clara province and severely affected cellphone service in central and western Cuba. The state-owned te...

Ex-Trump campaign head Manafort to appeal jailing order

Ex-Trump campaign head Manafort to appeal jailing order

-- 2018-06-26 12:53:52

Lawyers for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager, said on Monday they plan to appeal a judge’s decision to jail Manafort while he awaits a criminal trial in W...

US prosecutors cancel meeting with Stormy Daniels

US prosecutors cancel meeting with Stormy Daniels

-- 2018-06-25 21:25:26

A meeting between adult film actress Stormy Daniels and federal prosecutors in New York investigating US President Donald Trump’s long time personal attorney Michael Cohen scheduled for Monday h...

Trump wants deportations without judicial process

Trump wants deportations without judicial process

-- 2018-06-25 14:44:05

US President Donald Trump has said that people who enter the country illegally should be sent back immediately to where they came from without any judicial process, likening them to invaders who are t...

Mexico arrests 28 cops over political murder

Mexico arrests 28 cops over political murder

-- 2018-06-25 12:58:56

Twenty-eight police officers in the western Mexican state of Michoacan have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a candidate for mayor in the municipality of Ocampo, local media...

US reunites 522 children separated under 'Zero Tolerance' policy

US reunites 522 children separated under 'Zero Tolerance' policy

-- 2018-06-24 16:20:25

The US Homeland Security Department said late Saturday the government has reunited 522 children separated from adults as part of a "Zero Tolerance" initiative and plans to reunite another 16 children...

Trump defends policies on border, North Korea

Trump defends policies on border, North Korea

-- 2018-06-24 12:06:52

President Donald Trump defended his tough stance on immigrants crossing the US border with Mexico on Saturday, praising his administration for a job well done and saying his approach will make the Uni...

North Korea still a major threat: Trump

North Korea still a major threat: Trump

-- 2018-06-23 20:29:33

US President Donald Trump has renewed sanctions on North Korea, citing an "extraordinary threat" from its nuclear weapons - just 10 days after saying there was no risk from Pyongyang. "There is no lo...

US judge may rule next week on reuniting migrant children

US judge may rule next week on reuniting migrant children

-- 2018-06-23 19:12:48

A federal judge said on Friday he could rule as soon as the middle of next week on a request to order the US government to reunite thousands of immigrant children who were separated from their parents...

Trump threatens 20pc tariff on EU cars

Trump threatens 20pc tariff on EU cars

-- 2018-06-22 21:03:00

US President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 20 per cent tariff on all European Union (EU)-assembled cars coming into the United States. The threat came a month after the administration launched...

UN says Venezuelan security forces killed hundreds

UN says Venezuelan security forces killed hundreds

-- 2018-06-22 20:55:48

Venezuelan security forces have carried out hundreds of arbitrary killings under the guise of fighting crime, the UN's human rights body said on Friday. In a report, it cites "shocking" accounts of y...

Pulitzer-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer dies

Pulitzer-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer dies

-- 2018-06-22 16:49:41

Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and pundit who helped shape and occasionally dissented from the conservative movement as he evolved from “Great Society” Democrat...

Pentagon to prepare 20,000 beds for migrant children

Pentagon to prepare 20,000 beds for migrant children

-- 2018-06-22 16:47:35

The Pentagon has been asked to supply up to 20,000 beds at old military bases for migrant children held after illegally entering the US, officials have said. Beds will be for migrant children who c...

Trump makes it to Time's cover again

Trump makes it to Time's cover again

-- 2018-06-21 20:53:57

US President Donald Trump has again made it to the cover of TIME magazine for reasons he might not necessarily call "terrific". Mr Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on...

N Korea has returned remains of 200 US war dead: Trump

N Korea has returned remains of 200 US war dead: Trump

-- 2018-06-21 15:51:06

President Donald Trump said North Korea had returned the remains of 200 US troops missing from the Korean War, although there was no official confirmation of the move from military authorities. &ldqu...

Trump backs down on family separations policy

Trump backs down on family separations policy

Agencies 2018-06-21 10:24:30

US President Donald Trump has backed down and abandoned his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on the US-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at h...

Canada legalises recreational use of marijuana

Canada legalises recreational use of marijuana

-- 2018-06-20 12:49:29

Canada’s parliament has passed a law legalising the recreational use of marijuana nationwide. The Cannabis Act passed its final hurdle on Tuesday in a 52-29 vote in the Senate. The bill control...

US quits 'biased' UN human rights council

US quits 'biased' UN human rights council

BBC 2018-06-20 10:40:57

The US has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it a "cesspool of political bias". The "hypocritical and self-serving" body "makes a mockery of human rights", said US envoy...

Nicaragua crisis talks halt following mediators walk out

Nicaragua crisis talks halt following mediators walk out

-- 2018-06-19 18:56:23

A fresh attempt at solving a deadly crisis in Nicaragua through talks has stalled after opposition representatives and Catholic Church mediators walked out. At least 180 people have been killed since...