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Trump faces deadline in court battle over travel ban

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 04:31 PM PST

US President Donald Trump salutes before boarding Air Force One from MacDill Air Force Base on February 6, 2017 in Tampa, FloridaThe US government on Monday defended President Donald Trump's travel ban as a "lawful exercise" of his authority, and claimed that a federal court made a mistake in barring enforcement of the measure. Meanwhile two new polls show that a majority of Americans now oppose the ban, which sparked chaos at US airports -- findings that Trump angrily dismissed as media lies. "Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election," he said on Twitter.


Appeals court weighs Trump ban as travelers arrive to tears

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 04:04 PM PST

Nazanin Zinouri, 29, is greeted at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport in Greer, S.C., with kisses from her dog Dexter and well-wishers holding signs reading "Welcome Home" on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Zinouri, an Iranian engineer and Clemson University graduate, had been unable to return to the United States because of the executive order President Donald Trump signed that limited travel to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)WASHINGTON (AP) — The fierce battle over President Donald Trump's travel and refugee ban edged up the judicial escalator Monday, headed for a possible final face-off at the Supreme Court. Travelers, temporarily unbound, tearfully reunited with loved ones at U.S. airports.


The Latest: Arguments set for Tuesday over Trump travel ban

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 04:04 PM PST

Isahaq Ahmed Rabi greets well-wishers with a wave shortly after his arrival Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, at Seattle Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. Rabi was blocked from entry to the U.S. last week due to President Donald Trump's immigration order. Rabi is a citizen of Somalia. His wife is a U.S. citizen. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the lawsuit involving President Donald Trump's executive order restraining immigration (all times EST):


U.S. court to hear arguments Tuesday on Trump's travel ban

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 03:52 PM PST

Abdishakur is greeted by her mother Warsma at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, VirginiaBy Daniel Levine and Dustin Volz SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court will hear testimony on Tuesday over whether to restore President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban, the most controversial policy of his two-week old administration. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Monday asked lawyers for the states of Washington and Minnesota and the Justice Department to argue whether the ban should remain shelved. A U.S. district judge in Seattle on Friday suspended Trump's order, opening a window for people from the affected countries to enter.


UN chief: IS on defensive in conflict areas but is adapting

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 03:34 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Islamic State extremist group is militarily on the defensive in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria but is partially adapting by moving to covert communications and recruitment and expanding its areas of attack away from conflict areas, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a new report.

Trump vows US, allies will defeat 'radical Islamic terrorism'

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 01:41 PM PST

US President Donald Trump speaks following a visit to the US Central Command and Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base on February 6, 2017 in Tampa, FloridaPresident Donald Trump vowed Monday that America and its allies would defeat the "forces of death" and keep radical jihadists from gaining a foothold on US soil, but did not offer details about his strategy to defeat the Islamic State group. In his first visit to US Central Command -- responsible for an area that includes the Middle East and Central Asia -- Trump also did not say whether he would scrap parts of the anti-IS mission in Iraq and Syria undertaken by his predecessor Barack Obama. "Today, we deliver a message in one very unified voice to these forces of death and destruction -- America and its allies will defeat you.


IS 'besieged' in last bastion in Syria's Aleppo province

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 01:25 PM PST

A Syrian pro-regime fighter guards his position during 2016 clashes with jihadists near the town of Al-Bab in Aleppo provinceThe Islamic State group is "completely besieged" in its last major stronghold in Syria's Aleppo province, a monitor said Monday, as pro-regime forces pressure the jihadists on several fronts. IS fighters were cut off in Al-Bab after forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's government severed a road into the northern town, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. "Al-Bab is now completely besieged by the regime from the south, and the Turkish forces and rebels from the east, north and west," the monitor said.


Wheaton College offers refugee scholarship in response to Trump travel ban

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 01:20 PM PST

Wheaton College, a private liberal arts institution located in Norton, Mass., has created a scholarship exclusively for refugees in the wake of a controversial executive order from President Trump that temporarily banned the entry of people from seven predominately Muslim countries into the United States. The new scholarship will be open to any refugee fleeing conflict from any part of the world, but applicants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen – all named in the ban – will receive priority consideration. Mr. Trump's travel ban has sparked protests across the US and abroad, with longtime Trump critics and even many Republican officials condemning the order.

Romanian government urges calm after graft U-turn, protests persist

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 12:41 PM PST

A pro-government supporter shouts slogans in front of the presidential office in BucharestBy Luiza Ilie and Radu-Sorin Marinas BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's ruling Social Democrats appealed for calm on Monday after withdrawing a decree widely condemned as reversing the country's anti-corruption drive, but protesters again took to the streets to demand the government's resignation. On Sunday the government rescinded the decree, which would have shielded dozens of politicians from prosecution, following the largest demonstrations in Romania since the fall of communism in 1989. Political analysts said the government – in power for barely a month – now faced an uphill task restoring shattered public confidence.


President Trump's executive actions, explained

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 12:25 PM PST

After entering office, President Trump began issuing a flurry of executive orders and presidential memorandums that have set a new course for US policy. Trade, security, energy, health care, immigration – there are few areas that Mr. Trump's executive actions have not touched. Quantitatively, Trump does not stand out from the pack.

Tech sector leads resistance to Trump travel ban

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 12:25 PM PST

A Saudia airlines crew arrives at the international arrivals hall at Washington Dulles International Airport on February 6, 2017 in VirginiaA coalition led by some of the world's biggest tech firms is taking on President Donald Trump's travel ban, signaling the contentious relationship between the sector and the White House could be about to get worse. "The tech sector will stand up to the president when they see him threatening industry interests, and on the immigration issue all these companies depend heavily on foreign scientists and engineers," said Darrell West, director of the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation.


U.S. embassy in Iraq reports threat against Baghdad hotels

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 12:12 PM PST

The U.S. embassy in Baghdad said on Monday it has limited the movement of its personnel after receiving "credible threats of possible attacks on hotels frequented by Westerners". "As a reminder, U.S. citizens should maintain a heightened sense of security awareness and take appropriate measures to enhance their personal security at all times when living and working in Iraq," an emergency security message for U.S. citizens on the embassy's website said. U.S. authorities advise citizens to avoid traveling to Iraq citing the risk of being kidnapped by armed political groups or criminal gangs and bombings by the group Islamic State.

Trump claims media not reporting terrorist attacks

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 12:09 PM PST

Trump claims media not reporting terrorist attacksPresident Trump's first speech to active duty troops since taking office went much the same way his first speech to CIA officers went. Speaking at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida on Monday, Trump gave an abbreviated history of terrorist attacks, from 9/11 to the Paris nightclub attacks to the truck massacre in Nice.


Trump's Neocon?

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 11:44 AM PST

Elliott Abrams is reportedly under consideration to be deputy secretary of state—setting up a strange third act for the longtime Republican foreign-policy figure, and a strange No. 2 for the Trump State Department. Politico's Michael Crowley reports that Abrams is meeting with President Trump on Tuesday, and that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson supports him for the job. Josh Rogin previously reported that Abrams was in the running for the job. Abrams declined to comment for this article.

Could Brexit pressures push May to surrender British 'independence' to US?

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 11:36 AM PST

To some in Britain, their prime minister, Theresa May, violated that rule when she became the first foreign leader to visit the US since President Trump's inauguration – and promptly invited Trump to make a state visit to the UK later this year. The honor – one not extended to former Presidents Obama and Bush until they'd been in office for two years – comes as Britain gears up to leave the EU and shifts its gaze across the pond toward its top export partner. Politicians and ordinary Britons alike are aware that the move out of the EU gives the "special relationship" of the US and Britain particular weight.

AP FACT CHECK: No arrests from 7 nations in travel ban? Nope

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 11:13 AM PST

This still image taken from United States Courts shows Judge James Robart listening to a case at Seattle Courthouse on March 12, 2013 in Seattle. Robart placed a nationwide hold on President Donald Trump's executive order, banning travel to the United States by migrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. (United States Courts via AP)WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge who halted President Donald Trump's travel ban was wrong in stating that no one from the seven countries targeted in Trump's order has been arrested for extremism in the United States since the 2001 terrorist attacks.


Kremlin asks for apology after Bill O'Reilly calls Putin 'a killer'

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 09:36 AM PST

Both Donald Trump and Fox News are in hot water over an interview between the US president and television host Bill O'Reilly broadcasted during Sunday's Super Bowl pregame show. The Kremlin demanded an apology from Fox News on Monday after Mr. O'Reilly described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "killer," while Republican lawmakers distanced themselves from President Trump for defending his counterpart in Moscow. The controversy shows how thorny the subjects of Russia and its leader are in Washington.

Islamic State on the defensive: UN report

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 08:55 AM PST

Iraqi soldiers pose with an Islamic State flag near Mosul on November 2, 2016The Islamic State group is militarily on the defensive, facing a drop in revenue from oil and extortion and a shrinking ability to attract new recruits, according to a new UN report released Monday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned however in the report to the Security Council that IS jihadists continue to pose a grave threat and are "partially adapting" to losses on the battlefield. "ISIL is militarily on the defensive in several regions, notably in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and the Syrian Arab Republic," said the report sent to the council on Thursday.


Corporate America Responds to Trump's Travel Ban

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 08:45 AM PST

The news of the week was President Donald Trump's travel ban that prevents U.S. entry to citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries. In the wake of the immigration order, many global companies spoke out against the new policy in an effort to reassure employees.

World Bank links financial support for Iraq to reconciliation

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 08:13 AM PST

By Maher Chmaytelli BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The World Bank plans to offer Iraq financial support in parallel with projects to foster reconciliation after Islamic State's defeat, its regional director said on Monday, to ensure that reconstruction after years of conflict is sustainable. U.S.-backed Iraqi and Kurdish forces have dislodged Islamic State from most cities that the hardline Sunni group captured in 2014 in Iraq, and they are now fighting the militants in their last major stronghold, Mosul, in the north. While mainstream Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish forces are taking part or supporting the battle to dislodge Islamic State from Mosul, their politicians are yet to heal rifts that followed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Republicans seek distance from Trump's comments on Putin, US

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 07:31 AM PST

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump watch the Palm Beach Central High School Band as they play for their arrival at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. The Trumps are attending a Super Bowl party at the club. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has long expressed a desire for improved relations with Moscow, but his latest comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the U.S. are leading some fellow Republicans to take a step back from the president — on this issue at least.


Iraqi forces wage psychological war with jihadist corpses

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 07:13 AM PST

Men ride a motorcycle past bodies of Islamic State militants killed in clashes in MosulBy Michael Georgy MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The flyblown corpses of Islamic State militants have been rotting along a main street in north Mosul for two weeks, a health risk for passersby. As Iraqi forces prepare to expand their offensive against Islamic State from east to west Mosul, they want to stamp out any sympathy that residents may have for the group, which won instant support when it seized the vast city in 2014. "We will leave the terrorists there," said Ibrahim Mohamed, a soldier who was standing near three dead jihadists, ignoring the stench.


Trump fumes on Twitter as polls show majority of Americans oppose his travel ban

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 06:46 AM PST

Trump fumes on Twitter as polls show majority of Americans oppose his travel banPresident Trump trashed polls that show a majority of Americans oppose his executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. "Any negative polls are fake news," Trump tweeted from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday. Like many of Trump's early-morning Twitter missives, the broadside followed a cable news segment about the topic at hand.


Islamic State encircled in Syria's al-Bab after army advance

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 06:39 AM PST

Smoke rises from the northern Syrian town of al-BabBy Ellen Francis and Humeyra Pamuk BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces advanced on the northern Islamic State-held city of al-Bab on Monday, cutting off the last supply route that connects it to militant strongholds further east towards Iraq, a monitor said. Islamic State militants in the area are now effectively surrounded by the army from the south and by Turkish-backed rebels from the north, as Damascus and Ankara race to capture the largest Islamic State stronghold in Aleppo province. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said the army and allied militia made gains southeast of al-Bab overnight, and fought the militants there on Monday.


Ski resort brings winter cheer to Iraq displaced

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 05:07 AM PST

People play in the snow at the Korek Mountain resort near the city of Rawanduz in the Arbil Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan on February 3, 2017In the fledgling ski resort of Korek in war-torn Iraq, the only battles are snow fights between visitors who often leave their traumatic memories at the foot of the slopes. Look at the people here enjoying themselves, not like in Mosul," said the 35-year-old, his face flush from the bright sun and cold wind. Korek lies in Iraq's northern autonomous region of Kurdistan, where hundreds of thousands of Iraqis displaced by the 2014 jihadist offensive have found refuge.


College responds to Trump's order with refugee scholarship

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 05:02 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2016 file photo, runners make their way along a sidewalk on the campus of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. The college has created a refugee scholarship in response to President Donald Trump's January 2017 order on immigration and refugees and is calling on other colleges to do the same. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)BOSTON (AP) — A liberal arts college in Massachusetts has created a refugee scholarship in response to President Donald Trump's order on immigration and refugees and is calling on other colleges to do the same.


Kerry, Albright urge court to uphold block on Trump travel ban

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 03:10 AM PST

Then US Secretary of State John Kerry (C) talks with former US Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton (L) and Madeleine Albright (R) after breaking ground at the US Diplomacy Center at the US State Department in Washington, DC, September 3, 2014A group of prominent Democrats including former secretaries of state John Kerry and Madeleine Albright called Monday for a federal appeals court to continue blocking President Donald Trump's travel ban, saying it harms national security. Trump's ban barred all refugees and travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the United States.


Sudanese president criticizes Iran and Egypt

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 03:07 AM PST

FILE - In this June 14, 2015 file photo, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir attends the opening session of the AU summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. During an extensive interview Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017, with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV network, Al-Bashir accused Egyptian intelligence of supporting Sudan's opposition forces, and vowing to take a border dispute between the two neighbors to the United Nations Security Council if negotiations fail. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed, File)CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir accused Egyptian intelligence of supporting Sudan's opposition forces, and vowed to take a border dispute between the two neighbors to the United Nations Security Council if negotiations fail.


For Trump, 'We Have a Lot of Killers' Isn't a Criticism

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 01:43 AM PST

In an interview that aired on Sunday, Bill O'Reilly alleged that Vladimir "Putin is a killer." Donald Trump replied, "We have a lot of killers. Well, you think our country is so innocent?"

What Effective Protest Could Look Like

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 01:00 AM PST

Fourteen years ago, I found myself an unexpected micro-target of a left-liberal protest demonstration. I had visited London to watch the debate and subsequent vote in the House of Commons over the Iraq war resolution. A huge demonstration against the war snaked down Whitehall toward Parliament. I wandered into Trafalgar Square for a view. Somebody recognized me as a recent alumnus of the Bush administration; arguably its least important member, but undeniably the closest at hand. A small throng surrounded me, and there followed what the diplomats would describe as a candid exchange of views.

Legal battles to test Trump and his immigration ban

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 12:16 AM PST

People march to voice their disapproval of U.S. President Donald Trump's policies downtown BoulderBy Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's temporary immigration ban faced on Monday the first of several crucial legal hurdles that could determine whether he can push through the most controversial and far reaching policy of his first two weeks in office. On Monday, the government has a deadline to justify the executive order temporarily barring immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries and the entry of refugees after a federal judge in Seattle blocked it with a temporary restraining order on Friday. The uncertainty caused by a judge's stay of the ban has opened a window for travelers from the seven affected countries to enter the United States.


New Pentagon chief Mattis a hit in Japan, South Korea

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 12:10 AM PST

In this Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, right, is escorted to inspect an honor guard at Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Mattis on Friday reassured two key U.S. treaty allies, South Korea and Japan, that President Donald Trump, who has raised doubts about the value of such partnerships, is fully committed to defending them. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)TOKYO (AP) — In his debut abroad as the first retired general to lead the Pentagon in more than half a century, Jim Mattis found that in Japan and South Korea his experience in uniform is seen as an asset.


AP FACT CHECK: Reality in Washington took a beating

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 12:06 AM PST

In this Feb. 3, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Reality took a beating from the Washington blame game this past week. Americans heard about a Kentucky massacre that never happened, a travel ban that was a ban despite it being called something else, and a dark plot to help Russian intelligence that was nothing of the sort. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Reality took a beating from the Washington blame game this past week. Americans heard about a Kentucky massacre that never happened, a travel ban that was a ban despite it being called something else, and a dark plot to help Russian intelligence that was nothing of the sort. A look at some of the ways political figures strayed into fiction:


Travelers denied entry a week ago, now arriving in US

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 12:04 AM PST

Ali Abdullah Alghazali, 13, right, from Yemen, wipes his eyes as he walks with his father Abdullah Alghazali, left, and his uncle after arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. Travelers from the seven predominantly Muslim countries affected by President Donald Trump's ban enjoyed tearful reunions with family members in the U.S. on Sunday after a federal judge swept the restrictions aside. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)NEW YORK (AP) — Travelers from the seven Muslim-majority countries targeted by President Donald Trump who were denied entry into the United States a week ago are arriving at airports around the country and into the open arms of their loved ones.


Refugees in Indonesia protest slow UN resettlement process

Posted: 05 Feb 2017 11:21 PM PST

Refugees from Afghanistan hold up placards during a protest outside U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Dozens of people fleeing war-torn countries who are currently in Indonesia for years called on the UNHCR to accelerate their resettlement because they could no longer bear to live in Indonesia without job and life assurance. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Asylum seekers who have been in Indonesia for years rallied in the capital on Monday urging the U.N. refugee agency to speed up the process of resettling them in third countries.


Technology firms to urge Trump to alter U.S. travel ban: sources

Posted: 05 Feb 2017 06:10 PM PST

The Facebook logo is pictured in the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park(Reuters) - Several technology companies plan to send a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urging his administration to follow through on proposed changes to a travel ban on seven mainly Muslim nations, sources familiar with the letter said Sunday. "We welcome the changes your administration has made in recent days in how the Department of Homeland Security will implement the Executive Order," according to a draft of the letter. The technology companies expected to sign the letter include Apple Inc, Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google, Twitter Inc, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc. The sources did not want to be identified because discussions regarding the letter were ongoing.


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