Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump demonstrators took to the streets of London and in separate protests across the Britain on July 13 in a massive and historic show of opposition to a sitting US聽president.
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More than 100,000 people took to the streets on June 30, in about 750 cities and towns in every state across the country, to protest the separation of immigrant children from their parents seeking asylum and denounce President Donald Trump鈥檚 鈥渮ero tolerance鈥 policy that made this cruel practice possible, writes Barry Sheppard from San Francisco.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau challenged Donald Trump鈥檚 nationalism at the G7 summit in Qu茅bec last month, but that doesn鈥檛 mean he provides the alternative people and planet need, writes Todd Gordon.
One of the few talents Donald Trump has as a politician is to make others around him look far more attractive than they really are.
In response to huge public outcry against his policy of forcibly separating children from immigrant parents seeking asylum, United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order on July 20 to halt the separations.
A victory? Not so fast, writes Barry Sheppard from San Francisco.
Donald Trump has partly backed down on the most extreme aspects of his cruel policy towards migrants seeking safety 鈥 but Shaun King writes that separating migrant families is something the US has been doing for centuries.
In what Amnesty International described as 鈥渁nother way to punish parents and children for seeking protection,鈥 United States President Donald Trump retreated in the face of huge outcry over his administration鈥檚 policy of ripping apart families at the US-Mexico border 鈥 signing an executive order on June 20 that will instead lead to families seeking safety being jailed together.
Washington has a long history of using deportations to strike fear among undocumented workers. In recent years, deportations have multiplied 鈥 previous president Barack Obama became known as 鈥淒eporter in Chief鈥.
But President Donald Trump has greatly stepped up the drive, mainly against Latinos without papers. He has unleashed Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) to carry out indiscriminate raids where Latinos congregate, deporting the undocumented. These include those without criminal records or who are guilty of only minor offensives, often separating families.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and United States President Donald Trump met at a historic summit in Singapore on June 12 that concluded with a joint statement.聽Those who want peace and denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula have welcomed the success of the summit. Though the end of the war has not been declared, a decisive step towards complete denuclearisation and an end to mutual hostilities has been taken.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is the highest-paid leader in the entire Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), according to .
Analysis by market research group IG also showed Turnbull earns up to 10 times the average Australian wage 鈥 the second-highest disparity with the majority of ordinary workers among OECD countries.
While the May 14 massacre of protesters by Israeli snipers was occurring in Gaza, United States President Donald Trump was symbolically opening the US Embassy in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was there, heaping praise on Trump.
There were also two pastors present, one to give the opening prayer, the other the closing one. Both pastors were from the extreme rightist, white Christian evangelical community and are well known for their outspoken anti-Semitism and support for Israel.
As the United States鈥 largest corporations continue their聽聽in the wake of President Donald Trump鈥檚 US$1.5 trillion tax cut, new government data published on May 22 shows that US banks are also smashing records thanks to the Republican tax law. They raked in $56 billion in net profits during the first quarter of 2018 鈥 an all-time high.
The world saw two starkly opposed moral cultures on May 14, writes Barry Sheppard.
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