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Millions at risk as US funds for water projects dry up
Published on 19/07/2025
» TAVETA, Kenya - The Trump administration’s decision to slash nearly all US foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new hazards for some of the people they were designed to benefit, Reuters has found.
Trump administration weighs adding 36 countries to travel ban, memo says
Published on 16/06/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump's administration is considering significantly expanding its travel restrictions by potentially banning citizens of 36 additional countries from entering the United States, according to an internal State Department cable seen by Reuters.
Trump travel bans in effect, citizens from 12 nations barred
AFP, Published on 09/06/2025
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's sweeping new travel ban came into effect early Monday immediately after midnight, barring citizens from a dozen nations from entering the United States and reviving a divisive measure from his first term.
Where shall we put all the Palestinians?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/06/2025
» Reckless people fling accusations of attempted genocide in Gaza at the Israeli coalition government and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) every day, but the scale of the operation is not remotely big enough to justify that word.
Here are the countries targeted in Trump's new travel ban
Published on 06/06/2025
» US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Wednesday banning the nationals of 12 countries from entering the United States, saying the move was needed to protect against "foreign terrorists" and other security threats.
Trump travel ban won't hit Los Angeles Olympics: organisers
AFP, Published on 06/06/2025
» LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles 2028 Olympics organisers said on Thursday the Games will not be impacted by President Donald Trump's ban on citizens from 12 countries from visiting the United States.
Trump slaps new travel ban on Myanmar, 11 other countries
AFP, Published on 05/06/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump signed a new travel ban on Wednesday targeting 12 countries including Myanmar, Afghanistan, Iran and Yemen, reviving one of the most controversial measures from his first term.
Jets can't fix trade
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/05/2025
» Re: "Arms deals tied to US tariff talks", (BP, April 22).
Sudan's war and the Africa we don't see
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/04/2025
» Last Tuesday, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: "Many have given up on Sudan, but that is wrong. It's morally wrong when we see so many civilians beheaded, infants as young as one subjected to sexual violence, more people facing famine than anywhere else in the world.... We simply cannot look away."
'Defend ourselves': Refugee girls in Kenya find strength in taekwondo
AFP, Published on 18/04/2025
» KAKUMA — Along one of the many dirt tracks leading into Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp there is a large hidden compound, where inside, twice a week, adolescent girls gather to learn taekwondo, the martial arts lessons offering a safe space in the often chaotic settlement.