The Trump administration announced on Monday that it will pay a sum of $1,000 stipend and travel assistance to illegal immigrants for self deport from the U.S said the Department of Homeland Security. The stipend and potential airfare for migrants who voluntarily depart would cost less than an actual deportation, the agency said. The average cost of arresting, detaining and deporting someone without legal status is currently about $17,000, according to DHS. President Donald Trump, a Republican, took office in January pledging to deport millions of people but so far has trailed deportations under his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden. Biden’s…
Author: Fatimah Idera
Ahead of the conclave beginning this week, all 133 Catholic cardinals eligible to vote for a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican confirmed on Monday. They will enter into seclusion in the Sistine Chapel at 4:30 pm (1430 GMT) on Wednesday, voting in secret until one of them secures the required two-thirds majority to become the next head of the Roman Catholic Church. Summoned following the death of Pope Francis on April 21, the group — representing 70 countries across five continents. The 133 “Princes of the Church” who will vote — all those aged under 80, minus…
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he is considering naming his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, as national security adviser. “I have a lot of people that want the job, I can tell you,but I’m going to be naming somebody who needs to fill the job within six months.” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew back to Washington from a weekend at his Florida club. Trump announced Thursday that he was nominating Mike Waltz, whom he removed as national security adviser, as UN ambassador while Secretary of State Marco Rubio would take over…
US President Donald Trump has denied that he is considering a third presidential term, a move which experts agree is banned under the US Constitution. “I’ll be an eight-year president, I’ll be a two-term president. I always thought that was very important,” Trump told NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker in an interview that aired on Sunday. Trump, 78, has previously said that he was “not joking” about wanting to serve a third, or even fourth, term as US president. He later said his statements were meant to troll the “fake news media”. His company, The Trump Organization, has…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the country, claiming the American movie industry was dying a very fast death due to the incentives that other countries were offering to lure filmmakers. Trump said on Truth Social, “This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda,” Trump said he was authorizing the relevant government agencies, such as the Department of Commerce, to immediately begin the process of imposing a 100% tariff on all films produced abroad that are…
U.S. President Donald Trump said he will not remove Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Board chairman before his term ends in May 2026. He revealed this while describing the central banker as a total stiff repeating calls for the Fed to lower interest rates. Trump insisted that his moves to upend the global trading system with higher tariffs would eventually make Americans rich, and insisted that a first-quarter contraction in the U.S. economy was the result of former President Joe Biden’s policies. In an interview with “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” on NBC News that aired on Sunday, Trump…
The Brazilian police said on Sunday that they had thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gaga’s historic concert that drew over 2 million people to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro state, working in coordination with the Justice Ministry, said the plot was orchestrated by a group promoting hate speech and the radicalization of teenagers, including self-harm and violent content as a form of social belonging. According to the Rio City Hall, 2.1 million people attended the concert of the American pop icon. The police said in a statement that, “The suspects…
President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to take the war in Ukraine to its logical conclusion, although he hoped that there would be no need to use nuclear weapons. Recall, Putin had ordered thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering Europe’s biggest ground conflict since World War Two and the largest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War. Read also: US might walk away from Russian peace effort if… Also, hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been killed and injured as…
Britain’s counter-terrorism police have arrested eight men, including seven Iranian nationals, in a number of raids across the country, the Metropolitan Police said on Sunday. On Saturday, five men, four of whom are Iranian nationals, were detained on suspicion of terrorism offences over a plot to target specific premises, while the nationality of the fifth man remains unknown. The arrests were made in Swindon, west London, Stockport, Rochdale, and Manchester. “The investigation is still in its early stages and we are exploring various lines of enquiry to establish any potential motivation as well as to identify whether there may be…
As tensions rise between the nuclear-armed neighbours in the wake of a deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region, India said on Saturday that it had banned the import of goods coming from or transiting via Pakistan and barred Pakistani ships. India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a notification that the ban would take effect immediately. “This restriction is imposed in the interest of national security and public policy,” it said Suspected militants killed at least 26 people in last week’s attack on a mountain tourist destination in the Pahalgam area of the Kashmir valley. The…
