shareSharenocloseShare pagelinkCopy linkAbout sharingimage copyrightAFPThe BBC has managed to speak to some people inside Mekelle, the capital of the Ethiopia’s conflict-hit region of Tigray, for the first time since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared
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The Trump administration must begin accepting new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a federal judge ruled Friday.U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis found that a memo issued in July by Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Friday it is pulling most U.S. troops out of Somalia on President Donald Trump’s orders, continuing a post-election push by Trump to shrink U.S. involvement in counterterrorism missions abroad. Without providing details, the Pentagon said
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed Wednesday. Observations by a telescope in Hawaii clinched its identity, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
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Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and adviser, was questioned under oath this week as part of a civil lawsuit alleging misuse of nonprofit funds for Donald Trump’s inauguration four years ago. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine’s office disclosed
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OMAHA, NEBRASKA — U.S. hospitals slammed with COVID-19 patients are trying to lure nurses and doctors out of retirement, recruiting students and new graduates who have yet to earn their licenses and offering eye-popping salaries in a desperate bid to
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A blogger jailed after filming protests over a toxic spill has gone on a hunger strike over unjust treatment in Vietnam’s An Diem prison, alongside two other prisoners of conscience. Nguyen Van Hoa, 25, a blogger and contributor to Radio
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CNN contributor Peter Beinart offered a staunch defense of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D‑Mich., after she was accused of sharing anti-Israel rhetoric on Twitter. On Sunday, Tlaib commemorated the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in part by retweeting an illustration
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President Donald Trump’s threat to veto a defense bill if it does not repeal legal protections for social media companies faced stiff bipartisan opposition Wednesday, setting the stage for a confrontation with lawmakers scrambling to pass the massive bill by
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday that could prevent Chinese companies from listing their shares on U.S. exchanges unless they adhere to U.S. auditing standards. The measure passed by unanimous voice vote, after passing the
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