SEVERAL PARTS of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policy have received a friendly reception at the Supreme Court. The justices blessed Mr Trump’s ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries in 2018, permitted the use of reallocated funds to begin building the southern border wall in July and, last month, allowed harsh asylum restrictions to take effect while litigation […]
Hong Kong’s metro stations and roads re-opened on Monday after a chaotic weekend that saw police fire water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who set fires and threw petrol bombs outside government offices and across central districts. The Chinese territory is on edge ahead of the 70th anniversary of the founding of […]
Germany is to carry out more random border checks to discourage migrants from moving illegally around the European Union (EU). The move will see more police officers sent to border zones in an attempt to crack down on “secondary migration” — the illegal movement of non-EU migrants between EU member states — according to a […]
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party is set to form a minority government after Monday’s federal election, official results showed. That means the incumbent Prime Minister will have to rely on support from other parties to govern. The Liberal Party is currently projected to win 155 seats, whereas it would need 170 to […]
US Isolation By Noam Chomsky On 23 December 2016, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2334 unanimously, US abstaining. The Resolution reaffirmed “that the policy and practices of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967 have no legal validity and constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, […]
