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South Africa blasts Trump’s refugee policy favoring white Afrikaners
South Africa’s government has criticized the United States’ decision to prioritize Afrikaners, white South Africans of Dutch descent, in its refugee admissions. The criticism followed an announcement from the Trump administration on Thursday setting a new refugee cap of 7,500 people for the next fiscal year, down from 125,000, and specifying that Afrikaners would be…
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White South Africans to make up majority as U.S. refugee admissions cut to 7,500
The Trump administration has cut the annual refugee admission limit to 7,500, a dramatic reduction...
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U.S. urges citizens to flee Mali amid jihadi blockade and fuel shortages
The U.S. Embassy in Mali has urged all American citizens to leave the country immediately,...
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Judge demands guarantees U.S. won’t defy court order by deporting Abrego Garcia to Liberia
A federal judge in Maryland pressed the U.S. government on Monday to guarantee that Kilmar...
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EU teams up with U.S. in fresh sanctions drive to push Putin toward Ukraine peace
The European Union has rolled out another series of sanctions against Russia, intensifying global efforts to weaken the country’s financial and military capacity amid its ongoing war in Ukraine....
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“My client’s life is on the line” — Lawyer of Cuban man on hunger strike after U.S. deportation to Eswatini
A Cuban national deported from the United States to the African kingdom of Eswatini has been on a hunger strike for a week while being held at a maximum-security prison without charges or legal access,...
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Rights group takes Ghana government to court over secret U.S. deportee deal
Fourteen West African nationals were deported from the United States to Ghana this week under a controversial repatriation agreement between the two countries, according to a lawyer representing the migrants....
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Mali hits back at U.S. with matching visa bond rule for American visitors
Mali’s government has announced that U.S. citizens seeking entry into the country will now be required to post a visa bond of up to $10,000, matching a similar restriction introduced by the United...
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Burkina Faso turns down Trump administration’s deportation deal
Burkina Faso’s government announced it has rejected a proposal from the Trump administration to receive deportees from the United States, including non-citizens expelled under a new U.S. removal...
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Putin lauds Trump’s peace push as Nobel Prize goes to Venezuelan activist
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace efforts and expressed optimism about extending a key nuclear arms treaty between the two nations, even as Trump...
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U.S. funding strains push U.N. to cut 25% of peacekeeping troops worldwide — senior official reveals
The United Nations is preparing to pull back thousands of peacekeepers and scale down operations worldwide after major U.S. funding cuts forced the organization to downsize one of its core missions, a...
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Ten more migrants sent from U.S. to Eswatini as Africa deportation pact deepens
Authorities in Eswatini confirmed on Monday that 10 migrants deported from the United States had landed in the southern African kingdom. This marks the latest group transferred under President Donald Trump’s...
