Tag: President Donald Trump

Burkina Faso Refuses to Accept Deported Citizens from US

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Burkina Faso has rejected one of President Donald Trump’s signature immigration policies by refusing to accept those expelled from the United States. Deporting people to third countries, frequently to countries they have no relationship to, has been a feature of Trump’s administration’s broad immigration crackdown since he returned to the White House. Across Africa, Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda and South Sudan have all received people expelled from the United States in recent months. However, Burkina Faso’s foreign affairs minister stated late Thursday that the west African nation had turned down Washington’s…

China Rejects Trump’s ‘Wrongful Detention’ Blacklist

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Beijing said Monday that it “firmly opposes” US President Donald Trump’s plan to include China on a blacklist of nations that Washington claims wrongfully hold Americans. Trump announced in an executive order issued Friday that the US will now identify “state sponsors of wrongful detention,” akin to the effective practice of designating nations as state sponsors of terrorism. China, Iran, and Afghanistan will be reviewed because they “persistently participate in hostage diplomacy,” according to a senior official, although the Trump administration did not immediately announce which nations would be on…

Putin threatens to continue Ukraine war unless peace deal is reached

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As he concluded a visit to China on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that his nation would continue its war in Ukraine if a peace agreement could not be achieved. Although US President Donald Trump met with both his Russian and Ukrainian colleagues last month, diplomatic attempts to end the three-and-a-half-year conflict seem to have stopped. Although he pledged to keep fighting and asserted that his forces were “advancing on all fronts,” Putin stated that he believed there was “light at the end of the tunnel.” “Let’s observe how…