Category: World

WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration is reviewing plans for immigration raids in Chicago scheduled for next week after their details were leaked, Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan told the Washington Post in an interview with on Saturday. The new administration “hasn’t made a decision yet,” said Homan, the former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the report. “We’re looking at this leak and will make decision based on this leak,” he added. ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Officials and rights advocates had…

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WASHINGTON: Thousands of individuals, predominantly women, took to streets in Washington on Saturday to protest the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, with many of them wearing pink hats symbolising the much larger demonstration held during his first inauguration in 2017. In Franklin Park, one of three kickoff locations for the “People’s March” that will wind through downtown, protesters gathered in light rain to rally for gender justice and bodily autonomy. Other protesters gathered at two other parks also near the White House, with one group focused on democracy and immigration…

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WASHINGTON: Immigration authorities of the United States will carry out mass arrests of undocumented immigrants across the country on Tuesday, a top border official of the incoming President-elect Donald Trump administration has said. The arrests would be among one of the first moves taken by Trump, who is set to return to the White House on Monday, to uphold a pledge to deport millions of illegal immigrants from the US. Trump’s incoming “border czar” Tom Homan remarked to Fox News in response to reports from the Wall Street Journal and…

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Two judges were killed in a shooting attack on Saturday at the Supreme Court building in Tehran, state media reported. “Three judges of the Supreme Court were targeted. Two of them were martyred,” the Judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported, adding that the “assailant killed himself”. State news agency IRNA also reported that one other person was injured in the attack. Mizan identified the two slain judges as Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghisseh, adding that they worked on cases “fighting crimes against national security, espionage and terrorism”. The motive behind their killing was not…

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WASHINGTON: United States President-elect Donald Trump’s will be held inside the Capitol on Monday instead of outdoors owing to severe cold marking first time in 40 years that US presidential inaugural ceremonies will be moved indoors. “Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda,” Trump added. The last time an inauguration was moved indoors because of the bitter cold was in 1985 for former Republican President Ronald Reagan’s second swearing-in when the afternoon wind chill fell into…

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By Muhammad Sohail On Friday, January 17, 2025, Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Lipavský received Tanzanian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Thabit Kombo at the Černín Palace. They discussed bilateral relations and cooperation, as well as security in Europe and Africa. During the visit, the ministers confirmed good Czech-Tanzanian relations, both countries share democratic values ​​and an emphasis on respecting the international legal order. ” Czech tourists are very fond of Tanzania. Czechs are even among the top ten in Zanzibar’s visitor numbers. Both the Czech Republic and Tanzania have established honorary…

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Tens of thousands of people ordered to flee their homes as wildfires tore through Los Angeles were told Thursday they would not be allowed back for at least a week, with fears over electrocution, landslides and exposure to toxic materials. Frustration is mounting among evacuees, who are angry over rules that prevent them from returning — even to homes that survived the deadly blazes. “There was a group chat where everyone was complaining, getting mad, saying, ‘why do they keep on locking us out of our homes?’” Ronnen Miz told…

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China’s population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in births, and experts cautioning that the trend will accelerate in the coming years. The National Bureau of Statistics said the total number of people in China dropped by 1.39 million to 1.408 billion in 2024, compared to 1.409 billion in 2023. Friday’s data reinforces concerns that the world’s second largest economy will struggle as the number of workers and consumers declines. Rising costs from elderly care and retirement benefits are…

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WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden has called on Americans to stay alert against what he described as a “dangerous” oligarchy forming under Donald Trump. In a televised address from the Oval Office on Wednesday, the 82-year-old, set to leave office next week after one term, cautioned against the unchecked power of a wealthy “tech industrial complex.” “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy,” the 82-year-old Democrat said. “That’s a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a…

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