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Trump immigrant curbs cause chaos, panic, anger worldwide
By Yeganeh Torbati and Doina Chiacu | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump's sweeping ban on people seeking refuge in the United States and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries caused confusion and panic among travelers on Saturday, with some turned back from U.S.-bound flights.Immigration lawyers in New York sued to block the order, saying numerous people have already been unlawfully detained. The new Republican president on Friday put [...]In Middle East, US travel curbs decried as unjust, insulting
By Eric Knecht and Maher Chmaytelli | CAIRO/BAGHDAD CAIRO/BAGHDAD Arabs and Iranians planning U.S. trips reacted with fury on Saturday to new American travel curbs they said were insulting and discriminatory, as five Iraqis and a Yemeni were stopped from boarding a New York-bound flight in Cairo.In some of seven Muslim-majority countries affected by the restrictions, would-be travellers preparing family visits, work trips or seeking to escape [...]French foreign minister says Trump's refugee measures are worrying
PARIS U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries is worrying, the French foreign minister said on Saturday."This can only worry us," Jean-Marc Ayrault, who was speaking at a joint press conference with his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel in Paris. "Welcoming refugees who flee war and oppression is part of our duty." Trump on Friday signed an executive order that will [...]
The best of haute couture spring 2017 – in pictures
Rami al Ali offered a deceptively simple column gown, in the palest lilac, with a train that pooled onto the floor. It looked like an updated kimono, with billowing sleeves that were caught at the wrist and cherry blossom embroidery delicately scattered across the shoulders and hips. The collar — high enough to cover the chin, was held stiff and starched away from the face, making the [...]NASA unveils spaceship hatch 50 years after fatal Apollo 1 fire
By Irene Klotz | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA on Friday marked the 50th anniversary of its moon program's fatal Apollo launchpad fire with the first public display of the scorched hatch that trapped three astronauts inside their spaceship during a routine pre-launch test.NASA astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died when thick smoke filled the crew module of the Apollo 1 [...]
Trump Will Call for a Pentagon Plan to Hit ISIS Harder, Officials Say
The directive to identify new ways to hasten the demise of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, has been widely anticipated by military commanders, who have begun drafting classified options to increase the pressure on the militant group, especially in Raqqa and Mosul, the stronghold in Iraq. Continue reading the main story Work on the directive was described by several current and former officials [...]Advertisements
Feature: John Edgar Wideman Against the World
For Wideman, who spent much of his working life in places like Wyoming and Western Massachusetts and rural Maine, this solitude has been further compounded by cold mathematics. Not only is mainstream publishing overwhelmingly white, it is also nearly bereft of black writers like him: American men of letters descended from Southern slaves, who position themselves as part of a grand and omnivorous intellectual and artistic tradition. [...]
Johnson & Johnson to buy Actelion for $30bn
Johnson & Johnson is to acquire Swiss biotechnology company Actelion for $30bn in a complex deal that will see Actelion’s founder heading a standalone spin-off research company based and listed in Switzerland.The world’s largest healthcare company is offering Actelion shareholders $280 per share in an all-cash offer — as well as shares in the new research and development company headed by Jean-Paul Clozel, the Swiss group’s chief [...]Trump to act on Mexico border wall, target U.S. 'sanctuary cities'
By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump was to start signing directives on Wednesday to begin building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and crack down on U.S. cities that shield illegal immigrants, moving quickly on sweeping and divisive plans to curb immigration and boost national security.The Republican president is also expected to take steps in the coming days to curb legal [...] Donald Trump set to act on Mexico border wall
Donald Trump is pressing ahead with his controversial border security measures in his first week in office, including his plan to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.Mr Trump on Wednesday was expected to follow through on his signature campaign issue by ordering the government to use funds to start building the wall. He told ABC News that construction along the 2,000-mile border would begin “in months”.He [...]
Feature: ‘The Only Way We Can Fight Back Is to Excel’
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By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders starting on Wednesday that include a temporary ban on most refugees and a suspension of visas for citizens of Syria and six other Middle Eastern and African countries, according to several congressional aides and immigration experts briefed on the matter.Trump, who tweeted on Tuesday night that a "big day" was planned [...]
Sean Spicer’s second briefing still contained a whopper
Good morning. Here's our morning roundup of all the media news you need to know. Want to get this briefing in your inbox every morning? Subscribe here. A fashionista friend in the White House press corps answered this lingering question after Sean Spicer's much-anticipated first briefing: What exactly was the glaring color of that jacket worn by Kellyanne Conway? "Tomato?" she guessed. Well, it was especially vivid [...] J&J disappoints on 2017 forecasts due to dollar
Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest healthcare company, blamed a stronger dollar as it forecast that 2017 profits and sales would fall below Wall Street expectations, sending the group’s shares down by more than 2 per cent. Dominic Caruso, chief financial officer, said it appeared that many Wall Street analysts had not updated their models to account “for the negative impacts of currency movement” as J&J became […]
Israel Approves Large Settlement Expansion in West Bank
Photo Construction in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim on Sunday. The Israeli government is showing signs that it is increasingly willing to disregard international condemnation of its settlements. Credit Mahmoud Illean/Associated Press JERUSALEM — Israel on Tuesday approved the construction of 2,500 housing units for Jews in West Bank settlements, throwing off diplomatic restraint just a few days into the beginning of the Trump administration.Just [...] Philippine outsourcing awaits Duterte-Trump effect
January 23, 2017 by: Michael Peel in Manila Business from the US has driven a long boom in the Philippines’ flagship outsourcing industry, but potential political threats to ambitious growth plans now loom in both countries. Global companies are scrambling to work out whether tough talk from Rodrigo Duterte and Donald Trump, the Philippine and US presidents, will mean trouble if they run operations in the Philippines. The election [...]
Holly to Bolly: Celebs out in force for women's anti-Trump marches, Ginger gives birth to new baby Spice and more
newslide If you wondered where Hollywood’s A-list celebrities had gone during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, you didn’t have to wonder any longer on Saturday, when scores of them showed up at huge women’s marches in Washington and other cities to send the new president a pointed message that he was in for a fight - and that, as so many signs said, women’s rights are human rights.Madonna, [...]
Britain's Tyrell Hatton leads by one at Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship
Briton Tyrrell Hatton hit a second successive four-under-par 68 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead after three rounds of a fiercely contested Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Just three shots separate the leading 16 players as they head into the final round. Hatton, who has finished in the top 10 seven times in his last 11 events, recorded five birdies for the third round in succession and [...]How The New York Times Plays With History
Submitted by Robert Parry via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Whenever The New York Times or some other mainstream news outlet holds itself out as a paragon of professional journalism – by wagging a finger at some pro-Trump “fake news” or some Internet “conspiracy theory” – I cringe at the self-delusion and hypocrisy. No one hates fake news and fact-free conspiracy theories more than I do, but the [...] Protesters gather in US cities for Women’s March
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Washington and other major US cities in one of the biggest US political demonstrations in recent memory and a stark rebuke to Donald Trump at the start of his presidency.More than half a million protesters are estimated to have descended on the US capital to take part in the Women’s March on Washington, according to event organisers, with [...] 
