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Trump weighs declaring national emergency
Associated Press, Published on 11/01/2019
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, facing the prospect within days of the longest US government shutdown in history, was considering declaring a national emergency that would likely escalate a policy dispute with Democrats over his proposed US-Mexico border wall into a court test of presidential power.
43 Cambodians convicted of felonies repatriated from US
Associated Press, Published on 05/04/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Forty-three Cambodians arrived in Phnom Penh on Thursday after being deported from the United States under a law allowing the repatriation of immigrants who have committed felony crimes and have not become US citizens.
US military to meet 'migrant caravan' at Mexico border
Associated Press, Published on 04/04/2018
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to use the military to secure the US-Mexico border until his promised border wall is built.
UN: Rohingya crisis could endanger regional security
Associated Press, Published on 05/02/2018
» JAKARTA: The UN's human rights chief has warned that Myanmar's persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority has the potential to spark regional conflict.
Top diplomat quits ‘whitewash’ Rohingya refugee panel
Associated Press, Published on 25/01/2018
» YANGON: Former New Mexico Gov Bill Richardson has resigned from an advisory panel on the massive Rohingya refugee crisis, calling it a “whitewash and a cheerleading operation” for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
US shutdown Day 2: The blame game
Associated Press, Published on 22/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: - President Donald Trump's budget director is holding out hope that feuding Democrats and Republicans in Congress can reach a short-term spending agreement before the start of the workweek Monday, but he worries that the government shutdown could last for several more days if progress remains elusive.
US government shuts down
Associated Press, Published on 20/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: The federal government shut down at the stroke of midnight Friday, halting all but the most essential operations and marring the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration in a striking display of Washington dysfunction.
Grown child-refugee now helps others flee Myanmar
Associated Press, Published on 16/11/2017
» KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh: Zahida Begum does not remember her home village, a tiny speck amid the mountains and forests of Myanmar. She was only 18-months-old when her mother smuggled her across the Naf River on a fishing boat, carrying her into Bangladesh.
Little US pressure amid talk of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
Associated Press, Published on 09/09/2017
» WASHINGTON - Don't expect the United States to step in and resolve what is increasingly being describing as an ethnic cleansing campaign against Myanmar's downtrodden Rohingya Muslims.
Ongoing Myanmar clashes leave 96 dead, including 6 civilians
Associated Press, Published on 27/08/2017
» BANGKOK -- Clashes in western Myanmar that began last week when insurgents launched attacks against police posts were continuing Sunday, with the government and advocates for the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority trading charges of killing civilians, burning down homes and planting land mines.