Author: Robert Tait
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US deports 119 immigrants of varying nationalities to Panama
The US has sent undocumented immigrants from several Asian countries whose governments have refused to accept them to Panama, in a move signalling an intensification of the Trump administration’s deportation effort. A military plane carrying 119 immigrants from countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Pakistan flew from California to Panama City…
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Federal staff ‘shell-shocked’ by upheaval from Trump’s return to White House
Federal government workers have been left “shell-shocked” by the upheaval wrought by Donald Trump’s return to the presidency amid signs that he is bent on exacting revenge on a bureaucracy that he considers to be a “deep state” that previously thwarted and persecuted him. Since being restored to the White House on 20 January, the…
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Iran hostages reflect on a crisis that defined Jimmy Carter’s presidency: ‘A fine man that did his best’
Isolated, incommunicado and blindfolded for much of their captivity, the newly released American hostages had mixed feelings at best about the US president who had presided – seemingly impotent and powerless – over their 444 days of misery. Some blamed him for failing to extricate them from the Iranian revolutionaries who held them against their…
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Mitch McConnell warns Trump to avoid ‘isolationist’ foreign policy in second term
Mitch McConnell, the Republicans’ outgoing leader in the US Senate, has called on Donald Trump to avoid an “isolationist” foreign policy during his looming second presidency – and urged him to back up a surge in American “hard power” by continuing to support Ukraine in its war against Russia. In a 5,000-word essay in Foreign…
