The Trump administration is seeking to remove Khalil, a prominent figure in the pro-Palestinian student protest movement, from the United States following his arrest last month.
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President Trump said the talks with Tehran would start Saturday but insisted Tehran can’t get nuclear weapons.
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[allAfrica] Cape Town — The formula used by the Trump administration to calculate the tariffs the United States is imposing on countries across the globe is being widely criticised by trade specialists.
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“Japan’s own self-interest is much more at stake in a Taiwan contingency or in a Japan contingency than the United States is,” Weinstein said.
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God of power and might, wisdom and justice,
through you authority is rightly administered,
laws are enacted, and judgment is decreed.
Assist with your spirit of counsel and fortitude
the President and other government leaders of these United States.
May they always seek
the ways of righteousness, justice and mercy.
Grant that they may be enabled by your powerful protection
to lead our country with honesty and integrity.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
The powerful earthquake was of 7.7 magnitude according to the United States Geological Survey.
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Somalia: U.S. Military Target Islamic State With Airstrikes in Puntland, Somalia #AfricaNews #Africa
[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia — The United States Military launched airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Somalia at the request of the federal government, intensifying efforts to counter the group’s expanding influence in the Bari region.
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[This Day] Abuja — In historic business deals, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery yesterday announced that the United States imported over 2 million barrels of jet fuel from the 650,000 bpd facility this March alone, underscoring the growing global impact of the world’s largest single-train refinery, located in Lagos.
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OSLO – Norway’s defence minister said he believes the United States remains committed to Europe’s defence but the continent must take a bigger share of the costs of defending itself if Washington is going to live up to its security commitments.
Read MoreWhen President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States would move ahead with a long-debated project to build a stealthy next-generation fighter jet, the message to China was clear: The United States plans to spend tens of billions of dollars over the next decade, probably far longer, to contain China’s ability to dominate the skies over the Pacific.
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WASHINGTON – Donald Trump told Volodymyr Zelensky on March 19 that the United States could own and run Ukraine’s nuclear power plants as part of his latest bid to secure a ceasefire in Russia’s invasion of its neighbour.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who is close to U.S. President Donald Trump, said established ties between Europe and the United States had to be preserved.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday threatened to impose additional sanctions on Venezuela if the country doesn’t accept its citizens who are repatriated from the United States.
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CARACAS – Venezuela’s National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez said on Monday that Venezuelans deported over the weekend to El Salvador by the United States have been denied due process.
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Learn about the development of the oscillating scan mirror (a key component of Virginia Norwood’s multi-spectral scanner), which made Landsat I a success, changing the science of earth observation forever. The development of the oscillating scan mirror is documented in the “Virginia Norwood Papers,” a new collection in the Geography & Map Division of the Library of Congress.
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Treasury Secretary Howard Lutnick is dismissing warnings that Trump’s trade policies will drive economic growth, as a BTC chill hits the markets.
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MEXICO CITY – Latin American rights activists on Thursday warned of growing political threats to reproductive rights across the region, as the United States rolls back access to abortion.
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The United States has paused intelligence-sharing with Ukraine, increasing pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in peace talks with Russia.
Read MoreSaint Katharine Drexel founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament to minister primarily to Native Americans and African Americans in the United States. She used much of her inherited wealth to support both the sisters and the ministry.
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JOHANNESBURG – European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Thursday that interactions between the United States and Russia showed Moscow had not given up its territorial goals in Ukraine, and that appeasing it would send a dangerous signal.
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JERUSALEM – Israel and the United States are both determined to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions and its “aggression” in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday following a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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BRASILIA/WASHINGTON – Countries are staying committed to their national climate plans and looking to lead the clean energy transition, as the United States plans to exit the Paris climate agreement, the UN’s top climate official said in his first speech of the year on Thursday.
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Popularly known as the saint who protects from ailments of the throat, Saint Blaise was a bishop and martyr of the fourth century. We know little else about him, except that he suffered persecution even after the Edict of Toleration was to have freed the Roman world for worship.
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The Rare Book and Special Collections Division will partner with the Library’s “By the People” crowdsource transcription project and Pennsylvania State University’s Douglass Day initiative to transcribe the contents of the African American Perspectives Collection. Read on to learn more about Douglass Day, transcription, and other efforts to preserve and share the collection assembled by Daniel Murray, a legendary figure in the history of the Library of Congress.
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Kristin Smith, CEO of the Blockchain Association, outlines principles to guide legislation and regulation on issues like self-custody, staking, voting, and peer-to-peer transactions on permissionless networks.
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