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JEDDAH: Houthi militias in Yemen are exploiting businesses, levying inflated fees, and using bank profits to finance war expenses, the war-torn country’s prime minister has said. Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr said Houthi militias and rebels regrettably still control YER300 billion generated from areas including customs, trade, telecoms, cigarette sales and cement factories.In a statement to the official Yemeni Press Agency, the country’s prime minister accused the Houthis […]

By Roberta Rampton and Emily Stephenson | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The presidents of the United States and Mexico spoke by phone on Friday after relations between the neighbouring countries frayed further over Donald Trump’s border wall plan, with the U.S. leader calling the talk friendly but still demanding reworked trade and other ties. The call between Trump and Enrique Pena Nieto came a day after the Mexican president […]

By Jonathan Allen and Ned Parker | NEW YORK NEW YORK Iraqis who say their lives are in danger because they worked with the U.S. government in Iraq fear their chances of finding refuge in the United States may vanish under a new order signed on Friday by President Donald Trump. The order temporarily suspends the United States’ main refugee program and halts visas being issued to […]

WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will speak by phone with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday morning, the White House said on Friday. Abe is scheduled to visit the White House next month. A Trump administration official said on Thursday the new U.S. president will seek quick progress toward a bilateral trade agreement with Japan in place of a broader Asia-Pacific deal he abandoned this week. […]

(The 19 hijackers implicated in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack came from Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. None of those countries will be subject to what Mr. Trump described as “new vetting measures.”) Continue reading the main story During the 90-day period, the Trump administration will assess if the foreign governments on the list are providing enough information about citizens seeking visas […]

The rebound in Brazil’s economy that many expected following last year’s change of government has failed to materialise. GDP will grow just 0.5 per cent this year according to a central bank survey. In per capita terms, that means another 12 months of contraction after headline negative growth of about 8 per cent over the past two years. Not that investors are deterred. The Bovespa equities index […]

Most conversations in edtech—and higher-education reform more broadly—begin and end with the classroom. And not without good reason. Teaching is a primary function of the university, especially at community colleges. However, what gets lost in teaching-centric conversations is another important, and arguably complementary, end—research. While skeptical readers can cherry-pick abstruse research projects, university knowledge production benefits plenty of folks who never attend college. Some of […]

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By Dave Graham | MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY Donald Trump’s combative style has buffeted Mexico’s president for months, but deeply unpopular Enrique Pena Nieto may end up thanking the new U.S. president for prompting offended Mexicans to rally behind their leader. From billionaire business magnate Carlos Slim to political opponents, there has been a groundswell of support for Pena Nieto, who has cut a lonely figure in […]

By Emily Stephenson and Mica Rosenberg President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries and he separately said he wanted the United States to give priority to Syrian Christians fleeing the civil war there. Trump had promised the measures, called “extreme vetting,” during last year’s election campaign, saying they would prevent militants from entering the United […]

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By Lesley Wroughton | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The Trump administration will not issue executive orders calling for a review of international treaties and U.S. funding of the United Nations and other international bodies “at this time,” a senior U.S. administration official said on Friday. The Trump administration was preparing executive orders that would review U.S. funding of the United Nations and other international organizations and certain forms of […]

The Mexican peso rallied on Friday after Donald Trump and Enrique Peña Nieto spoke for an hour by telephone, a day after the Mexican president cancelled his planned summit with the US president over his plans for a border wall. “The presidents had a constructive and productive conversation regarding the bilateral relationship between both countries, including the issue of the US trade deficit with Mexico, the importance […]

Video Bana al-Abed Pens Letter on Syrian Refugees to Trump Bana al-Abed, a 7-year-old Syrian girl whose Twitter account helped bring the world’s attention to the plight of citizens in besieged Aleppo, asked President Donald J. Trump to provide aide for Syrian refugees. By MEGAN SPECIA on Publish Date January 26, 2017. Photo by Twitter/AlabedBana. Watch in Times Video » “You must do something for the children […]

Mexico has been in the crosshairs this week as US president Donald Trump held true to his campaign rhetoric and ordered the construction of a wall along the Mexican border, with White House press secretary suggesting a 20 per cent tax on imports could pay for it. With relations between the two countries on course for crisis, has Mr Trump done enough to scare investors away from […]

Funeral parlor owner Gerardo Santiago  who cremated Korean Jee Ick Joo’s remains at the NBI after arriving from Canada early Friday. INQUIRER/ MARIANNE BERMUDEZ “I am innocent,” Gerardo Santiago told reporters on Friday when asked why he returned to the Philippines despite threats to his life. Santiago is the owner of Gream Funeral Services in Caloocan City where the body of South Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo was […]

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said on Friday that Syrian Christians will be given priority when it comes to applying for refugee status in the United States. “If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody […]

Baghdad, Iraq; January 26, 2017 GE has further strengthened its collaborations in Iraq to support the country’s power infrastructure, and to meet the growing need for electricity from people and industry. GE signed agreements that will add over 2 gigawatts (GW) of power, and secure the delivery of ~1.75 GW of existing power to the national grid, to strengthen the nation’s power infrastructure. GE will set up […]

Modern cars have more lines of code than the Space Shuttle and can boast wireless connectivity that’s on par with the latest smartphones. But they’re not quite computers on wheels since even new cars lag older computers in their ability to be updated and kept secure from hacking. Near-instant obsolescence and cyber security are two major pain points for auto makers (and consumers). New vehicles […]

By Steve Holland and Elizabeth Piper | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May, who share an unusual bond as the products of anti-establishment uprisings, will sit down on Friday for what could be a difficult search for unity on NATO, Russia and trade. The meeting will mark Trump’s first with a foreign leader since taking power a week ago, and it […]

TORONTO General Motors Co will cut 625 jobs at its auto assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, by the end of July and move some production work to Mexico, the president of Canada’s largest auto workers union said on Friday. “This came right out of left field,” said Jerry Dias, the president of the union, Unifor, in a phone interview. “This is NAFTA, this has nothing to do […]

WASHINGTON U.S. Senator John McCain, commenting on Friday on speculation that President Donald Trump may lift sanctions on Russia, said he hoped the administration would reject that “reckless course.” “If he does not, I will work with my colleagues to codify sanctions against Russia into law,” McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and one of the Republican party’s senior foreign policy voices, said in a […]

Donald Trump will wade into the most contentious foreign policy issue of his tumultuous young presidency on Saturday, when he speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin as he considers whether to lift Obama-era sanctions against the Kremlin. The call to Mr Putin, scheduled the same day as Mr Trump’s first White House calls with the leaders of Germany and France, will be his first chance to make […]

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, The Dow Jones Industrial Average provides us with some pretty strong evidence that our “stock market boom” has been fueled by debt.  On Wednesday, the Dow crossed the 20,000 mark for the first time ever, and this comes at a time when the U.S. national debt is right on the verge of hitting 20 trillion dollars.    Is […]

By Thomas Escritt | THE HAGUE THE HAGUE African countries are considering a co-ordinated withdrawal from the International Criminal Court if it is not reformed to address what they see as its bias against the continent, according to a document seen by Reuters. Almost a third of the ICC’s 124 members are African, and a withdrawal by a large number of them would cripple a court that […]

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