Armed smugglers escort migrants to border, surveillance video shows
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Trump Tax Returns Won’t Be Released Until May 6 After Another Deadline Is Missed
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President Trump will not comply with a Tuesday deadline set by House Democrats to release his tax returns to Congress, according to the White House.CreditCreditErin Schaff/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin again delayed a decision on … Read More
US Treasury misses congressional deadline to hand over Trump tax returns
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US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin speaks during a briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on January 28, 2019. (Photo by AFP) US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin failed to meet a final … Read More
Hundreds of Iranian and Afghan Refugees Thrown out on the Streets of Athens
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Refugees staged a sit-in outside the Greek parliament in Athens, demanding shelter Just before Easter, police in Athens raided a building where a group of refugees had been sheltering, arrested several of them and sent the rest either to camps … Read More
Number of Western Balkan immigrants in Germany on a sharp rise
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Author: Flickr/Hernán Piñera WIESBADEN – According to German Federal Statistical Office, the number of economic migrants from the Western Balkan countries has risen to 66.000 in 2018. This represents a sharp increase from the same number in 2015, which amounted … Read More
Trump: ‘No reason’ for White House to comply with congressional investigations
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President Trump on Tuesday said he doesn’t want current and former White House aides to testify in front of Congress following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, Trump said complying with further investigations … Read More
Israel Deployed ‘New Missile’ Against Iranian Target
Rampage missile fired from F-16 fighter jet developed by IMI Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries Days after Israel’s air strikes on the Masyaf (Misyaf) missile plant in Hama Province, Syria, Israeli media have reported that a highly advanced “new missile” … Read More
Netanyahu: ‘I will name a Golan Town after Trump’
Netanyahu said there “is a need to express our appreciation by calling a community or neighborhood on the Golan Heights after Donald Trump.” If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has his way, alongside Katzrin, Ramot and Ramat Magshimim on the Golan … Read More
Drought: Too little, too late
posted in: Earthquakes, Famines, Pestilence, Disasters, News
Since Independence folks in the marginalised and neglected northern regions have developed a depressing familiarity with drought and hunger. As a biting drought cuts a swathe of suffering across much of the north and northeastern parts of Kenya, imperilling nearly … Read More