Tag: Migration
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Maximum Pressure, Minimum Options: Potential Pathways for Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran faces unprecedented challenges that have intensified speculation about the regime’s long-term viability. After four decades in power, the confluence of chronic economic mismanagement, international isolation, and mounting domestic discontent has created what many observers describe as a perfect storm of pressures. The return of the “maximum pressure” campaign by the…
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Schumer Says Enough Democrats Will Vote Today to Avert Government Shutdown
Schumer says he’ll vote to advance the G.O.P. spending bill, arguing that a shutdown would further empower Trump. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, broke with his party on Thursday and lined up enough Democrats to advance a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight Friday deadline, arguing that…
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Shutdown Looms as Democrats Say They Won’t Back Spending Bill
Senate Democrats balk at funding extension, raising the risk of a shutdown. Senate Democrats said on Wednesday that they would refuse to back a Republican-written stopgap bill to fund the government through Sept. 30, significantly raising the chances of a government shutdown at the end of the week. After two days of intense closed-door party…
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Image principale The Return: Russia and the Security Landscape of Northeast Asia Date de publication 31 March 2020 Accroche Northeast Asia has emerged as a critical theater of Russian foreign policy in recent years. Moscow’s historical Westerncentrism is giving way to a new awareness about the vital importance of the region. The “turn to the…
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Playbook: Shutdown week is here
With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine CARN BEFORE THE STORM: Former central bank chief Mark Carney was anointed the new PM of Canada last night as the Liberal Party closes the door on the Justin Trudeau era. Carney won the support of a whopping 85 percent of Liberal Party members following…
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Channel crisis update as migrants from 70 countries make crossing
Migrants from at least 70 different countries crossed the English Channel last year, the Daily Express can reveal. The Home Office was on Friday warned the small boat crisis was “spiralling out of control” and “getting worse”, with a record number crossing so far this year. Some 235 people arrived on Thursday, with more detected…
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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House to Host Executives for First ‘Crypto Summit’
Trump Says He Asked Iran to Open Nuclear Talks Image President Trump is seeking to negotiate with the Iranian government regarding nuclear weapons.Credit…Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times President Trump said he had sent a letter to the Iranian government seeking to negotiate a deal to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. He…
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How Many Immigrants Will Die in U.S. Custody?
A cluster of Customs and Border Protection jails stretches from the Rio Grande to the Pacific; farther north, they dot the woods and mountains along the Canadian frontier. Most of the jails are austere, even by the grim standards of detention centers. The communal cells are generally concrete rectangles, without beds or other furnishings. They…
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‘Asylum seekers like me are a wasted resource’
‘Asylum seekers like me are a wasted resource’ Elizabeth Baines BBC News, Yorkshire Reporting fromLeeds BBC/Elizabeth Baines Mohsen is among the asylum seekers in Leeds calling on the government to “lift the ban” on work permits At 36 years old, starting a life “from zero” was not the dream Mohsen carved for himself. Fearing for…
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Central America steps up to house deported migrants after Trump makes clear U.S. won’t be ‘doormat’: expert
The Trump administration has made deals across Latin America to assist in the U.S. effort to deport migrants who have entered the country illegally, with migrants being shipped to and held in several Central American countries. “Trump’s no longer letting the U.S. be treated like a doormat,” Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border…
