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Trump's Travel Ban: Can US Citizens Still Visit Affected Countries And Which 36 Nations May Be Added To His List?
International Business Times - United Kingdom
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June 17, 2025
The Trump administration has recently imposed a full travel ban on 12 countries, barring their nationals from entering the United States as part of efforts to significantly reduce immigration. According to a newly leaked internal memo, US...
Calema concert today in Luz is a “historic” moment for Lusophony.
Portugal Pulse
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June 7, 2025
António and Fradique Mendes Ferreira, born in 1992 and 1987 in São João dos Angolares, São Tomé and Príncipe, have amassed millions of views and streams online and boast over a million social media followers. As children, their thoughts were just...
Government revokes diplomatic status of Sudan national
The Times Group Malawi
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June 18, 2025
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services has revoked a Malawi diplomatic passport previously issued to Sudan national Gamal Younos Mohammed Younos, citing irregularities in its issuance and non-compliance with provisions of the...
What is US Green Card Lottery? Are Indians Eligible For It? Explained
News18
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June 16, 2025
Last Updated:June 16, 2025, 18:26 IST US Green Card Lottery: As part of the programme, the US awards up to 55,000 immigrant visas each year for natives of countries with low immigration rates The programme is also known as the DV Lottery and the...
Bhutan acts to stay off travel ban list
The Bhutanese
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June 28, 2025
After working very hard to stay off any travel ban list and cooperating with United States (US) authorities, Bhutan was congratulating itself when the USA, earlier this month, announced a list of countries facing full and partial travel ban that...
America’s most unwanted and the urgent cable that reveals where Trump wants them to go
The Age
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June 27, 2025
Save Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size United States diplomats in several overseas missions received an urgent cable from Washington...
Portugal to Implement Tighter Rules for Citizenship & Family Reunification
Schengen Visa Info
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June 16, 2025
The Portuguese authorities have confirmed plans to tighten rules for those who want to become Portuguese citizens, in addition to applicants for family reunification, as the government aims to improve its immigration system. According to Publico,...
Israel Vows to Strike ‘Everywhere’ Against Iranian Regime
Foreign Policy
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Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at deadly strikes between Israel and Iran, day one of meetings at the G-7 summit, and a U.S. immigration crackdown. Attacks on Tehran Airstrikes lit up the Israeli and Iranian skies on Monday,...
South Sudan among 36 nations at risk of partial or full US entry ban
Eye Radio
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June 16, 2025
Author: Lasuba Memo | Published: 7 hours ago President Trump- credit | Alex Wong/Getty Images Thirty-six countries, including South Sudan, Uganda, and Tanzania, have been given 60 days by the United States government to meet immigration benchmarks...
Donald Trump 'considering adding another 36 countries' to travel ban list
LAD Bible
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Donald Trump is doubling down on his anti-immigration stance in the US and is now reportedly considering adding another 36 places to his list of countries banned from visiting the US. The 79-year-old has faced huge backlash for his actions since...
US Proposes Major New Travel Ban Expansion on Egypt, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Bhutan and Thirty Other Countries: Check the Full List
The Zimbabwean
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June 15, 2025
A leaked State Department memo reveals that these nations have been given a strict 60-day deadline to meet new U.S. vetting and cooperation standards or risk facing full or partial entry bans, signaling the largest shift in U.S. immigration...
World Bank: Conflict, instability driving extreme poverty in Nigeria and 38 other economies
Nairametrics
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June 27, 2025
The World Bank has raised alarm over the growing impact of conflict and instability on 39 developing economies, including Nigeria, warning that these states are being left behind on key development indicators, with extreme poverty, hunger, and...
New U.S travel ban threat looms over Zimbabwe… dodgy passports cited
Nehanda Radio
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June 16, 2025
HARARE – The United States government is reportedly considering a significant expansion of its travel restrictions, potentially impacting 36 additional countries, including Zimbabwe, as part of a heightened focus on national security and...
Trump Administration Considers Expanding Travel Ban to 36 More Countries, Including African and Caribbean Nations: Report
The Boston Mail - Massachusetts
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The Trump administration is reportedly weighing new travel restrictions on 36 additional countries, expanding its immigration crackdown to include several African, Caribbean, and Asian nations, according to an internal memo obtained by The...
Russia challenging US, China for strategic clout in Africa
Asia Times
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June 26, 2025
Russia has never had an African colony. It stayed out of the scramble for Africa, only engaging with African states in the 19th Century. In 1869, for instance, the Russians gave Ethiopia military support to threaten the position of the British in...
Trump's US travel ban 2.0: 36 more countries face potential entry restrictions; here’s the list
The Times of India
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Trump's US travel ban 2.0: 36 more countries face potential entry restrictions; here’s the list In a dramatic escalation of its immigration and national security agenda, the administration of the US President Donald Trump is weighing an expansion...
“A builder of bridges”: Apostolic Nuncio in Angola Weighs in on Start of Pope Leo XIV’s Pontificate
ACI Africa
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May 12, 2025
Luanda, 12 May, 2025 / 10:44 pm (ACI Africa). Peace, dialogue, reconciliation, and global solidarity are to define the Pontificate of of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, who has been elected as the Catholic Church’s 267th Pontiff and taken the...
The U.S. Is Making Prison Deals in Other Countries
Esquire
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June 26, 2025
Is it possible for a nation of Reichstags to develop a world full of gulags, or does that stretch historical analogies beyond the breaking point? Let’s let the Intercept settle this question. An Intercept investigation finds that the Trump...
AFRICA/ANGOLA - “They are destroying our communities”: Catholic Archbishop in Angola calls for criminalization of diviners
Fides
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June 25, 2025
Wednesday, 25 June 2025 Internet Saurimo (Agenzia Fides) – “They are destroying communities, dividing families, and hindering development,” said José Manuel Imbamba, Archbishop of Saurimo, speaking to a group of journalists at the end of a...
Social Listening 27 June 2025: More Nigerians were kidnapped in one year than the populations of 15 countries
Business Day
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June 27, 2025
This NBS report shows that more people were kidnapped in Nigeria (2.2 million) in the past year than the populations of: Lesotho – 2,120,000 Slovenia – 2,118,697 Latvia- 1,871,871 Equatorial Guinea – 1,669,000 Guinea-Bissau – 1,663,000 Estonia-...