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Trump Riles Up Minnesota Supporters With Racist Attack on Somali Refugees

By Jake Johnson | Common Dreams on Oct 1, 2020   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

Trump Riles Up Minnesota Supporters With Racist Attack on Somali Refugees

  “This is the overlap between white supremacy, the climate emergency, misogyny, and human rights abuses.” Just 24 hours after refusing to condemn white supremacists during the first 2020 general election debate, President Donald Trump late Wednesday launched a racist attack on refugees from Somalia and other nations and parroted an unfounded right-wing claim about Rep. Ilhan Omar, sparking […]

‘Not Mere Misers, But Actively Cruel’: Trump’s GOP Denounced as Worse Than Scrooge on Christmas Eve

By Jon Queally | Common Dreams on Dec 24, 2019   Featured, National, National/World, Politics  

‘Not Mere Misers, But Actively Cruel’: Trump’s GOP Denounced as Worse Than Scrooge on Christmas Eve

  Tear gassing refugees at the U.S. border. Ripping kids out of the arms of their parents. Stripping food aid from the nation’s poor and most vulnerable. “Will we tolerate the insatiable greed and cruelty of the billionaire class, whose control over our political system lets them take food out of the mouths of hungry school kids? Or […]

Trump Renews Threat to Close Southern Border With Mexico

By Ken Bredemeier | VOA on Mar 28, 2019   Featured, National, National/World  

Trump Renews Threat to Close Southern Border With Mexico

  U.S. President Donald Trump is renewing his threat to close the country’s southern border, saying Mexico and three Central American countries are not doing anything to halt the surge of undocumented migrants heading north to try to enter the United States. Trump first threatened to close the border last November, but did not follow […]

How Trump Changed Asylum Rules in 2018

By Aline Barros | VOA on Jan 2, 2019   Featured, National, National/World  

How Trump Changed Asylum Rules in 2018

When U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced a new policy recently to keep asylum-seekers in Mexico while they wait for their cases to be adjudicated, it was the latest in a string of Trump administration policies affecting asylum this past year. According to requirements laid out by the U.N. Convention on Refugees in 1951 […]

Trump: US Will Now Begin Cutting Aid to Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador

By VOA on Oct 22, 2018   Featured, National/World, World  

Trump: US Will Now Begin Cutting Aid to Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador

President Donald Trump says the U.S. “will now begin cutting off or substantially reducing” the amount of foreign aid given to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, saying they were “not able to do the job” of stopping migrants from leaving their countries and “coming illegally” to the U.S. His Twitter comments Monday came as a […]

Thousands of Iraqi Civilians Abducted, Hundreds Executed in Battle for Mosul

By Lisa Schein | VOA News on Oct 28, 2016   Featured, World  

Thousands of Iraqi Civilians Abducted, Hundreds Executed in Battle for Mosul

GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office reports Iraqi civilians are increasingly being used as pawns by Islamic State militants in their battle for Mosul. The agency says it has received credible reports of hundreds of executions, mass abductions, and the use of civilians as human shields. The agency reports Islamic State militants have been forcing […]

House Approves Bill to Halt Syria, Iraq Refugee Plan

By Cindy Saine | VOA News on Nov 19, 2015   Featured, National  

House Approves Bill to Halt Syria, Iraq Refugee Plan

CAPITOL HILL—The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to suspend President Barack Obama’s plan to resettle 10,000 Iraqi and Syrian refugees in the United States in the next year, but he is promising to veto the measure if it passes the Senate. Obama signaled that he anticipates his resettlement plan will go forward. “My […]

Thousands of Syrians Flee Aleppo Countryside

By Jamie Dettmer | VOA News on Oct 20, 2015   Featured, World  

Thousands of Syrians Flee Aleppo Countryside

GAZIANTEP, TURKEY—Thousands of Syrian villagers are fleeing homes in the countryside south of Aleppo in the face of a government ground assault backed by Russian airstrikes, one of four major offensives mounted since Russia’s military intervention in the long-running Syrian civil war. The three other offensives are focused mainly on rural areas in the provinces […]

Migrant Boat Carrying Hundreds Capsizes Off Libya Coast

By VOA News on Aug 5, 2015   At Sea, Featured, World  

Migrant Boat Carrying Hundreds Capsizes Off Libya Coast

Aid agencies and the Irish Navy are reporting that a fishing vessel carrying about 600 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean and a distress call was issued, about 24 kilometers north of Libya. The navy reports say hundreds of people were in the sea and a rescue effort was under way. The Associated Press cited Irish […]

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