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President Donald Trump has used a hastily-arranged White House news conference to claim that he's inherited a mess, both America and overseas. He told reporters that jobs were pouring out of the United States, and the Democrats had screwed up things
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A fierce critic of the US environmental protection agency has been sworn in as head of the organization. Scott Pruitt, the former Attorney General of Oklahoma, has sued the agency more than a dozen times over its regulations. Democrats and Green grou
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Thousands of Iraqi government forces have advanced into a handful of villages on the opening day offensive to recapture the city of Mosul from the Islamic State Groups. A BBC correspondent saw weapons and ammunition abandoned by the jihadist. The fir
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The U.S. Vice President, Mike Pence, has sought to reassure America's European allies that President Trump is committed to Trans-Atlantic cooperation. On a visit to Brussels, he reaffirmed for both the European Union and NATO, which Mr. Trump has sha
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The Trump Administration has released new guidelines aimed at speeding up the removal of illegal immigrants from the United States. Undocumented immigrants with a criminal record will be targeted first along with those deemed risk to US security or w
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The Mexican Foreign Minister, Luis Videgaray, has expressed concern about violations of the human rights of Mexican nationals in the United States, after a meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and the head of homeland security, Jo
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Several major news organisations have been excluded from a press briefing at the White House, including the New York Times, CNN and the BBC. They were refused entry to an off-camera briefing with President Trumps spokesman Sean Spicer. He said he was
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In a rare show of opposition to the authorities, thousands of Russians have marched in Moscow and other cities to commemorate the murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. They are the biggest protests since those held on the first anniversary of the
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President Trump has promised what he called a historic increase in defense spending. White House officials say he wants the Pentagon budget to go up by $54bn, almost 10 per cent. The administration hopes to pay for the increase by cutting non-militar
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Russia and China have vetoed an attempt the United Nations to impose sanctions on the Syrian government. The US and its western partners on the Security Council had wanted to punish Damascus over its alleged use of chemical weapons in attacks on rebe
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President Donald Trump says he has total confidence in the US Attorney General Jeff Sessions amid controversy about his meetings with the Russian envoy during last years presidential campaign. Mr. Session has come under pressure since it emerged that
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China has said it will increase military spending by about 7% this year. The scheduled announcement was made ahead of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing. It comes after President Trump outlined plans to increase US military spending by
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President Trump has signed a new executive order imposing a 90-day ban on travelers from six mainly Muslim countries. Iraq has been taken off the list after additional vetting measures were agreed. Most of the controversial measures of the old order
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WikiLeaks has published thousands of confidential documents, detailing what it says are top-secret hacking tools used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The alleged cyber weapons include malware that targets Android devices and iPhones, as well
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Firefighters in Guatemala say at least 19 children have died in a blaze at a government-run children's home southeast of the capital, Guatemala City. Many others were injured. It's not yet clear what caused the fire. But on Tuesday, the police had to
