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Foreigners seeking to study in the United States will be required to make public their social media profiles to allow screening for anti-American content under new State Department guidelines released Wednesday.The State Department had temporarily paused issuing visas for foreign students at the end...
World,Politics
Washington: President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. knows where Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hiding during the Israel-Iran conflict but doesn’t want him killed “for now.”Trump urged, in a social media posting, Iran's “UNCONDITIONAL SURR...
World,Back Page
The United States is considering extending its travel ban to 36 more countries, a person who has seen the memo said Monday, marking a dramatic potential expansion of entry restrictions to nearly 1.5 billion people.The State Department early this month announced it was barring entry to citizens of 12...
AFP, Washington: US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was aiming for a "real end" to the conflict between arch-rivals Israel and Iran, and not just a ceasefire, after five days of back-and-forth strikes."I'm not looking for a ceasefire, we're looking at better than a ceas...
US President Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal authorities to ramp up deportation efforts in Democratic-led cities, doubling down on a politicized anti-immigration drive after major protests in Los Angeles."We must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America's larges...
Donald Trump's dream of hosting a grand military parade in Washington will come true on Saturday when tanks, helicopters and thousands of troops rumble through the capital on the US president's 79th birthday.Long fascinated with military pomp, Trump has openly envied the military spectacular...
Business
Shifts in US trade policy could hold back further progress in lowering inflation, a senior US central bank official said Tuesday, as President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs ripple through the economy.The US economy is "still on a firm footing, but uncertainty has notably increased since t...
Several people were injured Sunday in what the FBI called a "targeted terror attack" in the US state of Colorado, where a group was protesting for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza."We are aware of and fully investigating a targeted terror attack in Boulder, Colorado,"...
The US Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major victory Friday in his immigration crackdown, giving his administration the green light to revoke the legal status of half a million migrants from four Caribbean and Latin American countries.The decision puts 532,000 people who came from Cuba...
Billionaire Elon Musk bade farewell to Donald Trump in an extraordinary Oval Office appearance Friday in which he sported a black eye, brushed aside drug abuse claims and vowed to stay a "friend and advisor" to the US president.As the world's richest person bowed out of his role as Tru...
World,Business,Tech Post,Science Technology
US President Donald Trump hosts agrand Oval Office farewell for Elon Musk on Friday as the world's richest manends his turbulent reign as the government's cost cutter-in-chief.The pair will hold a joint press conference at 1.30pm (1730 GMT), with Trumpattempting to put a positive spin on Mus...
Sports,Football
Inter Miami fought back from 3-1 down to grab a 3-3 draw at MLS Eastern Conference leaders the Philadelphia Union on Saturday thanks to a stoppage-time leveller from substitute Telasco Segovia.Israeli forward Tai Baribo scored twice for Philadelphia to give them the two goal advantage but Lionel Mes...
US President Donald Trump defended on Sunday his administration's move to block foreign students at Harvard after a judge suspended the action, branded by the top university as unlawful."Why isn't Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from foreign lands, and yet those cou...
US President Donald Trump has announced new details and initial funding for his "Golden Dome" missile shield system, with geopolitical rival China accusing Washington on Wednesday of undermining global stability.Trump on Tuesday announced $25 billion earmarked for the project, which he sai...
The World Bank has said it would restart operations in Syria following a 14-year pause, after Saudi Arabia and Qatar had paid off the country's outstanding debts.The Bank's operations in Syria were halted when the civil war broke out in 2011, preventing the country from accessing its develop...
The European Union is ready to respond if new trade tensions emerge with Washington, the EU ambassador to the United States said Friday, two months before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.While the bloc is looking into areas of cooperation, if there are trade frictions "the European Un...
National,Back Page
US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday made his first cabinet appointment after his decisive election win, while signaling his intent to ditch the outgoing administration's policies by talking to Vladimir Putin.Trump's campaign manager Susie Wiles will serve as his White House chief of ...
US President Joe Biden will attend two key summits and visit the Amazon rainforest in South America this month, the White House said Thursday, in a trip totally overshadowed by Donald Trump's election win.Biden's swansong at the G20 summit in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and the APEC meeting in Li...
National,Front Page
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enter the final weekend of the most tense US presidential campaign of modern times with a flurry of swing-state rallies that will test their stamina -- and ability to persuade the country's last undecided voters.Harris, bidding to become the country's first wom...
Standard and Poor's upgraded Turkey's long-term sovereign credit rating on Friday from B+ to BB-, with the agency noting economic progress thanks to the central bank's "tight monetary stance."That stance "has enabled Turkish authorities to stabilize the lira, bring down in...
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