Mindful of the chaos and confusion in the wake of Trump’s last month executive order barring entry from seven Muslim majority countries and halting refugee program, airport officials and civil rights lawyers across the US are getting ready for Trump’s new travel ban. Trump said that his executive order named seven countries because they had already been deemed a ...

  WASHINGTON / AP President Donald Trump’s new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary US travel ban, US officials say, citing the latest draft in circulation. Trump is expected to sign the executive order in the coming days. Four officials told The Associated Press that the decision followed pressure from the Pentagon ...

  BERLIN / AP The United States on Wednesday called on the UN Human Rights Council to drop its “obsession with Israel” amid reports that the Trump administration is considering quitting the body. In a speech before the Geneva-based council, US envoy Erin Barclay said the United States’ commitment to human rights “is stronger than ever.” “Regrettably, too many of the ...