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• Trump agrees to meet NATO leaders in Europe in May
• Pentagon failed to disclose up to thousands of air strikes: report
• Travelers arrive in US to hugs and tears after ban is lifted
• The Latest: Brothers with 'canceled' stamp to arrive Monday
• Technology firms to urge Trump to alter U.S. travel ban: sources
• Trump ban blocked, spokesman says Iranian woman back in US
• Safe on U.S. soil, new arrivals breathe sigh of relief
• Trump blasts courts for blocking travel ban, warns of 'peril'
• The Trump presidency on Feb. 5 at 5:10 P.M. EST
• Trump steps up attack on judge, court system over travel ban
• Travelers arrive in US to hugs and tears after ban is lifted
• Trump rails against judge: Blame the courts ‘if something happens’
• White House predicts courts will reinstate travel ban
• Battle over Trump's immigration order: what we know
• Iraq says ruling against Trump travel ban is move in right direction
• Pence Does Damage Control After Trump’s Embarrassing Judicial Setbacks
• With Trump travel ban still blocked, travelers head to US
• U.S. coalition jets bomb Islamic State-held town near Euphrates Dam
• Pentagon failed to disclose up to thousands of air strikes: report
• Turkish police detain over 440 people in anti-IS operation
• As travel ban lifted, Syrian rushes to join wife in US
• Syrian army chips away at IS on several fronts
• Iranian Americans feel stuck, confused, afraid of travel ban
• Mosul residents outraged by IS 'hole fee'
• 'Feels great': Sudanese doctor finally back home in US
• Trump Cabinet pick paid by controversial Iranian exile group
• Federal appeals court will not immediately reinstate executive orders on immigration
• Australia's leader says Trump isn't chasing a refugee deal
• At former jihadist training camp, Iraqi police face drones, crack snipers
• Kuwait denies it imposed travel ban praised by Trump
• Justice Department appeals judge's immigration order
• At least 2,000 march on Trump's Florida resort
• Trump to visit Italy in May

Trump agrees to meet NATO leaders in Europe in May Posted: 05 Feb 2017 05:27 PM PST By Steve Holland WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump agreed to meet alliance leaders in Europe in May in a phone call on Sunday with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that also touched on the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, the White House said. Trump was elected on a pledge to push NATO members to increase their funding to the western alliance to ease the financial burden on the United States. This proposal has drawn opposition from both his fellow Republicans as well as Democrats and the idea has worried European allies who fear Russian President Vladimir Putin might take advantage.

Pentagon failed to disclose up to thousands of air strikes: report Posted: 05 Feb 2017 05:13 PM PST The Pentagon has failed to disclose up to thousands of air strikes the U.S. military carried out over several years in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan against militants in those countries, the Military Times reported on Sunday. Last year, the United States carried out at least 456 air strikes in Afghanistan that were not documented in a U.S. Air Force database, the website reported. The air strikes were conducted by U.S. Army helicopters and drones.

Travelers arrive in US to hugs and tears after ban is lifted Posted: 05 Feb 2017 04:34 PM PST BOSTON (AP) — Travelers from the seven predominantly Muslim countries targeted by President Donald Trump enjoyed tearful reunions with loved ones in the U.S. on Sunday after a federal judge swept the ban aside.

The Latest: Brothers with 'canceled' stamp to arrive Monday Posted: 05 Feb 2017 04:02 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump's ban on travelers and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries (all times Eastern):

Technology firms to urge Trump to alter U.S. travel ban: sources Posted: 05 Feb 2017 03:55 PM PST (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.

Trump ban blocked, spokesman says Iranian woman back in US Posted: 05 Feb 2017 03:23 PM PST GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — An Iranian engineer who had been blocked from returning to South Carolina by President Donald Trump's travel ban against seven Muslim nations returned to the U.S. on Sunday, her employer said.

Safe on U.S. soil, new arrivals breathe sigh of relief Posted: 05 Feb 2017 03:03 PM PST BAGHDAD/NEW YORK (Reuters) - For Fuad Sharef and his family, the tortuous ordeal of getting from Iraq to Nashville, Tennessee, was nearly over more than a week after it was to begin. The former U.S. development agency subcontractor, his wife and three children landed in New York on Sunday afternoon on their second attempt to reach the United States to begin a long-awaited new life. "We are very happy to be here," Sharef said at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Trump blasts courts for blocking travel ban, warns of 'peril' Posted: 05 Feb 2017 02:38 PM PST "I have instructed Homeland Security to check people coming into our country VERY CAREFULLY. The saga began on January 27 when Trump issued a blanket ban on all refugees, as well as on travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. On Friday, a federal judge in Seattle, James Robart, blocked the ban nationwide pending a wider legal review.

The Trump presidency on Feb. 5 at 5:10 P.M. EST Posted: 05 Feb 2017 02:34 PM PST (Reuters) - Highlights of the day for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Sunday: IMMIGRATION ORDER Trump ramps up his criticism of a federal judge who blocked a travel ban on seven mainly Muslim nations and says courts were making U.S. border security harder, intensifying the first major legal battle of his presidency. Iraq is satisfied with a U.S. appeals court ruling against the travel ban on people from Iraq and six other Muslim-majority countries, a government spokesman says. Washington state's lawsuit challenging Trump's executive order on immigration emerged out of a chaotic, 48-hour period in which the need for immediate action held sway over the kind of carefully thought-out strategizing that usually leads up to the filing of a major legal complaint, according to state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and other attorneys involved in actions against the order.

Trump steps up attack on judge, court system over travel ban Posted: 05 Feb 2017 02:34 PM PST By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Sunday ramped up his criticism of a federal judge who blocked a travel ban on seven mainly Muslim nations and said courts were making U.S. border security harder, intensifying the first major legal battle of his presidency. In a series of tweets that broadened his attack on the country's judiciary, Trump said Americans should blame U.S. District Judge James Robart and the court system if anything happened. Trump did not elaborate on what threats the country potentially faced.

Travelers arrive in US to hugs and tears after ban is lifted Posted: 05 Feb 2017 02:08 PM PST Travelers from the seven predominantly Muslim countries targeted by President Donald Trump enjoyed tearful reunions with loved ones in the U.S. on Sunday after a federal judge swept the ban aside. Airlines ...

Trump rails against judge: Blame the courts ‘if something happens’ Posted: 05 Feb 2017 01:43 PM PST President Trump continued to fume Sunday over a federal system that has so far stymied his controversial travel ban. Trump even told his supporters to "blame" both Judge James Robart and the broader court system "if something happens" — an apparent reference to a terror attack.

White House predicts courts will reinstate travel ban Posted: 05 Feb 2017 01:03 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Rebuffed in its bid for a quick reversal, the White House said Sunday it expected the courts to reaffirm President Donald Trump's executive power and reinstate a ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.

Battle over Trump's immigration order: what we know Posted: 05 Feb 2017 12:49 PM PST A US appeals court has rejected a government request to immediately reinstate President Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban -- the latest twist in what could be a long, high-stakes legal battle. On Friday in Seattle, federal district judge James Robart ordered the temporary nationwide suspension of the president's order. Federal judges in several other states -- notably California and New York -- have also ruled against Trump's executive order, and a judge in Boston declined to review it, but Robart's ruling has the greatest sweep.

Iraq says ruling against Trump travel ban is move in right direction Posted: 05 Feb 2017 12:21 PM PST By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq is satisfied with a U.S. appeals court ruling against a travel ban imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, a government spokesman said on Sunday. The ruling given late on Saturday denied a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to immediately restore Trump's order, which a judge in Washington state had blocked on Friday. "It is a move in the right direction to solve the problems that it caused," the Iraqi spokesman, Saad al-Hadithi, told Reuters.

Pence Does Damage Control After Trump’s Embarrassing Judicial Setbacks Posted: 05 Feb 2017 12:21 PM PST The administration on Sunday attempted to put a positive face on a weekend of embarrassing judicial setbacks that at least temporarily put President Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban on hold after a week of global protests of Trump's hard hitting and disruptive executive orders. Vice President Mike Pence -- the administration's chief tactician for damage control – appeared on four major talk shows today arguing that a federal court judge's ruling on Friday night against Trump's hastily implemented actions against tens of thousands of foreign travelers would soon be reversed. Pence insisted that a majority of Americans overwhelmingly approve Trump's tough action to root out potential terrorists – despite criticism that the order has created chaos and uncertainty at airports throughout the world and is a blot on the country's tradition of welcoming immigrants of all religions, including Muslims.

With Trump travel ban still blocked, travelers head to US Posted: 05 Feb 2017 12:14 PM PST A US appeals court has rejected a government request to reinstate President Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban, prompting travelers from seven mainly Muslim nations to hurry to enter the country before the next legal twist. The early-morning ruling from a federal appeals court was the latest chapter in a saga which began on January 27, when Trump issued a blanket ban on all refugees, and travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

U.S. coalition jets bomb Islamic State-held town near Euphrates Dam Posted: 05 Feb 2017 12:11 PM PST U.S-led coalition planes bombed an Islamic State-controlled town near the Euphrates Dam in northern Syria a day after the launch of a new phase of a campaign to capture the militants' defacto capital of Raqqa, activists and the militants said on Sunday. Activists confirmed reports released by the militants' news agency Amaq which said four raids in the last twenty four hours hit the town of Tabqa west of Raqqa, located near Syria's largest dam, at the southern end of Lake Assad on the Euphrates. Islamic State fighters are battling hard to keep the swathes of territory they have captured in Syria, mostly in the center and east, as they lose ground in Iraq.

Pentagon failed to disclose up to thousands of air strikes: report Posted: 05 Feb 2017 12:09 PM PST The Pentagon has failed to disclose up to thousands of air strikes the U.S. military carried out over several years in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan against militants in those countries, the Military Times reported on Sunday. Last year, the United States carried out at least 456 air strikes in Afghanistan that were not documented in a U.S. Air Force database, the website reported. The air strikes were conducted by U.S. Army helicopters and drones.

Turkish police detain over 440 people in anti-IS operation Posted: 05 Feb 2017 11:24 AM PST Turkey's anti-terrorism police have detained over 440 people for alleged links to the Islamic State group, the state-run news agency reported Sunday. The Anadolu Agency said 60 suspects, the vast majority ...

As travel ban lifted, Syrian rushes to join wife in US Posted: 05 Feb 2017 10:50 AM PST "I was sleeping when my wife called me at dawn yesterday to tell me that there was a decision to lift the ban," the 25-year-old Syrian law graduate said on Sunday. Adel -- whose name has been changed to protect his identity -- was to drive to Beirut on Sunday, fly to Amman and then take a connecting flight to New York. A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump's executive order, which had barred entry to the US for refugees and travellers from seven mainly Muslim nations, including Syria.

Syrian army chips away at IS on several fronts Posted: 05 Feb 2017 10:49 AM PST Syrian troops and allied militia on Sunday chipped away at territory held by Islamic State jihadists on several fronts across the country, state media and a monitoring group said. Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have doubled down against IS in Syria's fractured north, as well as near Damascus and the ancient city of Palmyra. "Regime forces advanced and seized Owaisheh, a village east of Al-Bab," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor.

Iranian Americans feel stuck, confused, afraid of travel ban Posted: 05 Feb 2017 10:30 AM PST IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Iranian-American supermarket supervisor Alan Tahmasebi voted for Donald Trump last year, hoping a businessman would be more trustworthy than a politician.

Mosul residents outraged by IS 'hole fee' Posted: 05 Feb 2017 09:59 AM PST Cash-strapped jihadists punching holes in people's homes to move across west Mosul undetected are now asking victims to pay for the labour, several residents said Sunday. The fee is a modest 7,000 Iraqi dinars (around five US dollars) but adds insult to injury, said residents of Mosul's west bank, where the Islamic State group is digging in for a planned offensive by the Iraqi security forces. "Daesh is smashing holes in the walls of our homes without giving us a choice," said a resident of an area known as "Pepsi street" who gave his name as Abu Asaad, using an Arabic acronym for IS.

'Feels great': Sudanese doctor finally back home in US Posted: 05 Feb 2017 09:48 AM PST For Sudanese doctor Kamal Fadlalla, 33, the nightmare ended on Sunday -- he was reunited with ecstatic friends and colleagues a week after being barred from returning to his patients in New York. The Brooklyn medical resident had been at home on holiday in Sudan when he heard that President Donald Trump was planning to ban visa holders from his homeland and six other predominantly Muslim countries from re-entering the country. "He's here!" said friend and fellow doctor Osama Mukhtar, whose young son ran ahead to greet Fadlalla with a hug in the arrivals hall of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Trump Cabinet pick paid by controversial Iranian exile group Posted: 05 Feb 2017 09:00 AM PST DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An official in U.S. President Donald Trump's Cabinet and at least one of his advisers gave paid speeches to organizations linked to an Iranian exile group that killed Americans before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, ran donation scams and saw its members set themselves on fire over the arrest of their leader.

Federal appeals court will not immediately reinstate executive orders on immigration Posted: 05 Feb 2017 08:49 AM PST A federal appeals court has upheld the ruling that blocked President Trump's executive order that banned immigrants and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries as well as refugees, shifting a week-long legal battle in favor of the immigrants, protesters, and Democrats who decried the ban. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied the Justice Department's request to reinstate the orders early Sunday, just over a day after a judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order on the bans nationwide. Seattle Judge James Robart had ruled late Friday that "the executive order adversely affects the states' residents in areas of employment, education, business, family relations and freedom to travel," making the burden imposed by the order too great without sufficient evidence to support the administration's national security claims.

Australia's leader says Trump isn't chasing a refugee deal Posted: 05 Feb 2017 05:28 AM PST CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister on Sunday ruled out any deal to get the United States to honor an agreement to resettle hundreds of Muslim refugees that President Donald Trump has described as "dumb."

At former jihadist training camp, Iraqi police face drones, crack snipers Posted: 05 Feb 2017 03:17 AM PST By Michael Georgy MOSUL (Reuters) - As a walkie-talkie carried word of another casualty from an Islamic State mortar attack, an Iraqi policeman peered through leaves at enemy positions just across the Tigris River. More than three months into the battle to drive them from their biggest stronghold, the hardline Sunni militants of Islamic State remain lethal and determined, despite being driven from the eastern half of the city of more than a million people. Few are more acutely aware of the danger they pose than police Lt-Colonel Falah Hammad Hindi, who instructed his men to take cover as mortars landed ever closer.

Kuwait denies it imposed travel ban praised by Trump Posted: 05 Feb 2017 02:07 AM PST By Noah Browning DUBAI (Reuters) - Kuwait has denied a media report which said it had imposed a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, a story which U.S. President Donald Trump praised on Facebook. "Smart!" a post on Trump's official Facebook page said on Thursday, linking to a report on Jordanian news website Al Bawaba which alleged that Kuwait had "mirrored" a decision by the Trump administration to temporarily bar travelers from several countries.

Justice Department appeals judge's immigration order Posted: 04 Feb 2017 10:31 PM PST By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department filed an appeal late Saturday to restore President Donald Trump's immigration order barring citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries and temporarily banning refugees, even as travelers raced to enter the country while the ban was lifted. The government moved to reverse a federal judge's Friday order that lifted the travel ban and warned the decision posed an immediate harm to the public, thwarted enforcement of an executive order and "second-guesses the president's national security judgment about the quantum of risk posed by the admission of certain classes of (non-citizens) and the best means of minimizing that risk." Friday's ruling prompted Trump to denounce the "so-called" judge in a series of tweets on Saturday.. The appeal now goes to a three-judge panel which can act at anytime to uphold the order or suspend it pending a full appeal.

At least 2,000 march on Trump's Florida resort Posted: 04 Feb 2017 10:26 PM PST At least 2,000 people marched Saturday near President Donald Trump's Florida golf club, voicing outrage at his executive order to bar refugees and travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were attending the annual Red Cross ball at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's "Winter White House," located in an upscale area on Florida's east coast.

Trump to visit Italy in May Posted: 04 Feb 2017 08:45 PM PST Donald Trump will attend a G7 summit in Italy this May, the White House said, in what could be his first visit to the continent as US president. After a call with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, the White House said Trump would attend the meeting of seven leading industrialized economies in Taormina, Sicily. Trump's election has caused fissures in the trans-Atlantic relationship that have not been seen since George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq.

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