The Trump administration has sparked fury by deporting alleged “Venezuelan gang members” to El Salvador, despite a court order prohibiting their expulsion. Civil rights groups are now asking the court to demand that the White House turn over information on the timing of events.
Nearly 60 percent of all adults and a third of all children in the world will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless governments take action, says a new study. The research published in the Lancet medical journal on Tuesday used data from 204 countries to paint a grim picture of what it described as…
United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order for the creation of a sovereign wealth fund within the next year, saying it could potentially buy the short video app TikTok. Trump offered on Monday little in the way of detail, and it was unclear how such a wealth fund would work. Typically such…
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem has welcomed United States President Donald Trump’s apparent retreat from his proposed permanent displacement of more than two million Palestinians from Gaza. The statement by the Hamas official came after Trump said on Wednesday that “nobody is expelling any Palestinians from Gaza” in response to a question during a meeting in…
Featured Documentaries Afghanistan: The price of peace The disastrous 20-year US mission in Afghanistan which ended in failure, the limits of power and long-term scars of war. Read more The United States’ Afghan war – more than two decades of conflict, trillions of dollars spent, tens of thousands of civilian and military lives lost and…
On the first day of his repeat term as president of the United States, Donald Trump went about making good on his promises to make life hell for asylum seekers. Proclaiming a “national emergency” to pave the way for the deportation of millions, Trump also immediately cancelled the CBP One app that previously allowed undocumented people to apply for…
School meals for low-income students. Cancer treatment trials. Housing assistance for veterans. These are among the federal programmes that might – or might not – be on the chopping block after the White House issued a sweeping, but vague, January 27 late-night memo that ordered a temporary pause on all grants, loans and financial assistance….
