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Trump warns democrats: No Mexican border wall, no DACA

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said Congress should enact a measure to provide legal status to young, undocumented immigrants, provided other proposals, including funding for a wall on the US border with Mexico, are also adopted — a compromise Democratic lawmakers have already rejected. “We want the wall,” Trump said at a press conference at Camp David in Maryland. “The wall ...

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32 missing as Iran oil tanker collides with Chinese ship

BEIJING / Reuters A tanker carrying Iranian oil and run by the country’s top oil shipping operator was ablaze and spewing cargo into the East China Sea on Sunday after colliding with a Chinese bulk ship, leaving its 32 crew members missing, the Chinese government said. Thick clouds of dark smoke could be seen billowing out of the Sanchi tanker, ...

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Iraq returning displaced civilians from camps to unsafe areas

AMRIYAT AL-FALLUJA / Reuters Iraqi security forces are forcibly returning civilians from refugee camps to unsafe areas in the predominantly Sunni Anbar province, exposing them to death from booby-traps or acts of vigilantism, refugees and aid workers say. Managing more than two million Iraqis displaced by the war against IS is one of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s most daunting tasks. ...

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