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Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, Bannon is correct that the US media – indeed, the entire Western print and TV media – is nothing but a propaganda machine for the ruling elite. The presstitutes are devoid of integrity, moral conscience, and respect for truth. @TheLeadCNN @jaketapper You’re not the press, you’re fake news!!! pic.twitter.com/ei0rEfRpyF — ira (@idesignwis) January 26, 2017   Who else but the despicable Western […]

TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticized his US counterpart Donald Trump on Saturday, saying now was “not the time to build walls between nations.”“They have forgotten that the Berlin Wall collapsed many years ago. Even if there are walls between nations, they must be removed,” Rouhani said at a tourism convention in Tehran.His remarks came after Trump ordered construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border and […]

By Phil Stewart | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for a military plan to defeat Islamic State is likely to see the Pentagon revisiting options for a more aggressive use of firepower and American troops. But U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, doubt the country’s military will advocate fundamentally changing a key strategy refined during the Obama administration: relying on local forces to do […]

Donald Trump’s ban on Muslim immigrants has provoked sharp criticism from US corporations, pitching the US president into an epic clash over US values and the legality of the new measures just one week into his presidency. A growing chorus of condemnation rose from the tech sector on Saturday, with companies including Google, Microsoft and Uber issuing statements of concern over the new policy. The founders of many […]

Photo Iraqi immigrant Hameed Khalid Darweesh, center, was released from detention early on Saturday afternoon at Kennedy International Airport in New York. Credit Victor J. Blue for The New York Times If an online travel agency had not temporarily blocked a credit card payment, forcing him to rebook a later flight, Hameed Khalid Darweesh probably would have landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York before President […]

US president Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin plan to meet soon to discuss “joining forces” in the Syrian conflict and “partnering” to solve a range of global issues, the Kremlin said on Saturday. During a 45-minute phone conversation, their first since Mr Trump was sworn in last week, the two men spoke in a “positive and businesslike manner” aimed at “stabilising and developing Russo-American co-operation”, according […]

Some of the synagogue members had signed on instinctually, so the Syrians would be helped the way their own parents or grandparents had been aided when they arrived in the United States. Others had joined as a way of countering Mr. Trump — just a few of the many Americans, of varied backgrounds, reacting with shock, outrage and concern to his curtailment of the country’s long-established refugee […]

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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 […]

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 […]

ABU DHABI // Brigitte Scholz made two mistakes that landed her in prison. The first was to trust the Nigerian “businessman” who absconded with $180,000 that she was convicted of stealing. The second was to employ a “lawyer” who turned out to be a conman. As reported in The National last week, Mohamad Al Kawadri is one of a group of impostors posing as lawyers who tout […]

They were among an estimated 110,000 people in line to be processed for resettlement in the United States during this fiscal year. In fact, they thought they had already made it through the rigorous vetting procedure and, after years of waiting, were on the verge of having their hopes realized. Continue reading the main story Now, all are suddenly, indefinitely waiting again, barred from entry to the […]

With the world (apart from Israel) in uproar over President Trump’s decision to ban immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, Department of Homeland Security official Gillian Christensen just confirmed “[the order] will bar green card holders” also. Green cards serve as proof of an individual’s permanent legal residence in the U.S. As The Hill reports, Trump signed an executive action Friday halting the country’s Syrian refugee resettlement program […]

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his administration wants more rigorous screening of refugees and visitors from certain countries to prevent terrorist attacks. Here is what Trump’s order on “extreme vetting” – denounced by civil rights groups as discriminatory – includes. TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF VISAS FOR CERTAIN COUNTRIES The order bars the entry of foreign nationals from certain countries for 90 days. While no countries are […]

CAIRO Five Iraqi passengers and one Yemeni were barred from boarding an EgyptAir flight from Cairo to New York on Saturday following President Donald Trump’s ban on the entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, sources at Cairo airport said. Trump on Friday put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily barred travellers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries, saying the […]

January 28, 2017 by: Hannah Kuchler in San Francisco and agencies Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries, fulfilling a campaign-trail promise to introduce what he dubbed “extreme vetting.” He criticised state department policy for allowing the 9/11 terrorists to obtain visas. “I’m establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States […]

By Stephanie Nebehay | GENEVA GENEVA The United Nations refugee agency and International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on the Trump administration on Saturday to continue offering asylum to people fleeing war and persecution, saying its resettlement programme was vital. U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily barred travelers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority […]

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 […]

BEIRUT Syrian government forces entered the village of Ain al-Fija near Damascus on Saturday and took control from rebels of a spring and pumping station that supply most of the capital’s water, a military media unit run by Lebanese group Hezbollah said. A monitoring group said the Syrian army had not yet entered the village, but was expected to under a deal reached with rebels who have […]

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, has become one of the first chief executives to openly challenge President Donald Trump, criticising an executive order that pledges “extreme vetting” of immigrants and a ban on Syrian refugees. Responding to the order on Facebook, Mr Zuckerberg wrote that the US should be proud to be a nation of immigrants and focus on excluding only people who actually pose a threat. He […]

But in interviews with dozens of officials, analysts and ordinary citizens across Muslim-majority countries, there was overwhelming agreement that the order issued Friday signaled a provocation: a sign that the American president sees Islam itself as the problem. Continue reading the main story “I think this is going to alienate the whole Muslim world,” said Mouwafak al-Rubaie, a lawmaker and former Iraqi national security adviser in Iraq. […]

(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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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