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US President Donald Trump threatened to send troops to Mexico during a phone conversation with President Enrique Pena Nieto last week, says a report. According to an excerpt of transcript of the Friday conversation seen by the Associated Press, Trump told Nieto the troops would be sent to stop the ...

A senior Mexican official has warned the new US administration against the implementation of a proposed border tax on goods imported from Mexico. Mexico’s Deputy Energy Minister Aldo Flores made the comment after President Donald Trump floated the idea of levying a 20-percent border tax on Mexican imports as one ...

Many US businesses have closed across the country as thousands of protestors took to the streets to rally against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Protest organizers urged immigrants to skip work and class and asked businesses to close on Thursday as a way to show the country how important they ...

Canadian lawmakers have started a formal process to approve or reject a legal motion against Islamophobia and systemic racism. The formal debate among legislators on Motion 103 got underway on Wednesday night, according to local media outlets. The proposed bill had been put into motion by Pakistani-born Liberal lawmaker Iqra ...

US President Donald Trump’s anti-Iran stance offers “further evidence” to claims that he is suffering from mental illnesses, says a prominent political commentator. Kevin Barrett made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday about Trump’s anti-Iran remarks following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At ...

Members of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had “repeated contacts” with senior Russian intelligence officials before the November election, according to a report. US law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted phone calls around the same time they were investigating whether Russia was interfering in the presidential election by hacking into the ...

          The government of US President Donald Trump says it has arrested hundreds of people in its immigration raids, claiming that most of them are convicted felons.US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Monday that out of the more than 680 people arrested, around 75 percent ...

        US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has resigned over allegations that he had contacts with Russia. The White House confirmed Flynn’s resignation on Monday night. Keith Kellogg, a retired US Army general, has been named as Flynn’s interim replacement. In his resignation letter, Flynn ...

US President Donald Trump us in no position to threaten Iran, and will not be able to spark a war with the country in the next couple of years as some analysts have suggested, says Professor Dennis Etler, an American political analyst who has a decades-long interest in international affairs. ...

US President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the US-Mexico border would be a series of walls and fences that could cost about $21 billion, and take more than three years to build, according to a US government estimate. A US Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters on ...