SHENYANG, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) — Heavy snow has disrupted traffic in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, local authorities said Sunday. The snowstorm started Saturday afternoon, the first day of the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, and continued Sunday. As of 9 a.m., 18 expressways in the province, including the section that links neighboring Jilin Province […]

TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (NsNewsWire) — Iran’s Foreign Ministry censured a decision by the new U.S. government to restrict arrivals from Iran and six other countries as an “open affront” to the Muslims and the Iranians, Press TV reported. “The decision is an open affront against the Iranian nation and the Muslim world and Iran would […]

MOSCOW, Jan. 29 (NsNewsWire) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to stabilize and deepen bilateral cooperation during a phone conversation on Saturday, the Kremlin said. “The two sides expressed willingness to work actively together to stabilize and develop Russian-American cooperation on a constructive basis, as equals, and to mutual benefit,” […]

NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (NsNewsWire) — A U.S. federal judge issued an emergency stay on Saturday that bars the U.S. government from deporting some of those subject to President Donald Trump’s newly-imposed “Muslim ban,” local media reported. The ruling presented the first legal challenge against the executive order Trump signed Friday on slapping a 90-day […]

GAZA, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) — Egyptian authorities opened Saturday the Rafah border crossing for the first time since the beginning of this year, said an official of the Islamic Hamas movement. Hamas-run ministry of interior said in an emailed press statement that Egypt has opened the crossing for four days to allow hundreds of Palestinians […]

VALLETTA, Jan. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Some migrant children were suffering sexual abuse at the hands of people smugglers, a senior European Union official said on Friday. Dimitris Avramopoulos, EU Commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship, made the remarks when addressing a conference in Malta titled “Lost in migration: Working together to protect children from […]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Friday held an hour-long telephone talk amid the dispute over a border wall. “With respect to the payment for the border wall, both presidents recognized their clear and very public difference between their stances on this very sensitive issue,” […]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday enacting a vetting process for refugees coming into the United States, in the name of guarding against terrorist threats. “We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas,” Trump said, […]