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Kristi Noem’s call comes in the wake of last week’s attack on National Guard members by an asylum seeker in Washington, DC The US needs a sweeping travel ban on countries “flooding” America with criminal migrants, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said. The call comes after an Afghan asylum seeker was identified as the suspect in last week’s shooting …

Pope Leo has warned Donald Trump not to attack Venezuela in order to oust President Nicolas Maduro. Leo, history’s first American pope, told reporters aboard the papal plane returning from Lebanon that the Venezuelan bishops conference and the Vatican Embassy in Caracas were trying to calm the situation and look out for the plight of ordinary Venezuelans. His intervention comes …

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has ordered the setting up of a judge-led independent review committee on the blaze that engulfed a Tai Po residential estate while formally announcing that the Legislative Council election will go ahead on Sunday as scheduled. The death toll from the inferno that swept through seven of the eight blocks of Wang Fuk …

While trafficking young girls, he was also part of an effort to export military-grade systems to governments around the world When I first moved to New York, I walked into my new dentist’s office and genuinely wondered whether I’d accidentally wandered into a Victoria’s Secret audition. The waiting room was full of stunning young women. Eventually I learned the dentist …

Afghan refugees continue to face deportation from both Pakistan and Iran, as tensions between the countries increase. Taliban officials reported that as many as 3,164 nationals were forced to return to Afghanistan on Monday alone. The crackdown on Afghan refugees in Pakistan has been provoked by escalating military clashes, political disillusionment and a deepening economic crisis. To date, Islamabad has …

OPINION — “As we’ve said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be ‘lethal, kinetic strikes.’ The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people. Every trafficker we kill is affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization.” That was part of a …

There were many examples both at home and abroad for Soviet citizens to be afraid. Stalin’s plot to kill his arch-rival and fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, was decades in the making and ended with an ice pick to Trotsky’s head while he was in Mexico City. His assassin, Ramon Mercader, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union when …

China’s finance minister has called for a more proactive fiscal policy to boost domestic demand, strengthen industrial security and advance technological self-reliance while mitigating debt risks, as Beijing prepares for one of its most important economic planning meetings of the year. Finance Minister Lan Foan outlined the country’s top fiscal priorities on Tuesday in an editorial published in the People’s …

Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has ratified an agreement on military cooperation with India ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the country later this week. The pact was ratified at a plenary session of the State Duma on Tuesday. The treaty, which is aimed at streamlining bilateral armed forces drills, rescue and humanitarian efforts, will allow …

Families of domestic workers who died in the Tai Po fire will each receive nearly HK$800,000 (US$102,718) in condolence and compensation payments, Hong Kong’s labour chief has said. As of 5pm on Tuesday, 10 domestic workers were among the 156 residents confirmed dead in last week’s blaze at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, while the fate of 30 others …