Whether you love or hate Trump’s “Muslim ban” (it’s actually a temporary 3-month ban, except for Syrians), there’s a bigger picture …
CNN notes:
The seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in President Trump’s executive order on immigration were initially identified as “countries of concern” under the Obama administration.
As President-Elect Trump visited Washington in December, and received calls from world leaders, Germany's Der Spiegel magazine makes it clear just what the European establishment thinks of The Donald's future...
And now, with President Trump having taken office, the German media (having exclaimed his inauguration address as "a declaration of war"), have dropped their latest cover-bomb, dubbed "America First"...
... clearly, Europe - or at least Spiegel - is confident it is next.
Turkey has waned Greece that military drills they are conducting on the Aegean island of Kos, are against international law and could spark tensions between Athens and Ankara In a statement the Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said: “We call on our neighbor Greece to refrain from unilateral actions that… could trigger tensions and are against international law” RT reports: The exercises breached a 1947 treaty that prohibited this kind of activity on the island, Muftuoglu noted, adding that Turkey could take preventive measures if necessary.
Update: The State Department has contradicted the Justice Department lawyer who previously told a federal judge that over 100,000 visas were revoked to comply with Trump’s temporary ban on travel from seven countries. The actual number is about 40,000 lower according to the State Dept: “Fewer than 60,000 individuals’ visas were provisionally revoked to comply with the Executive Order,” said Will Cocks, spokesperson for the department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.
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The U.S. imposed fresh sanctions on Iran as President Donald Trump seeks to punish Tehran for its ballistic missile program after warning the Islamic Republic that it is “playing with fire." As Bloomberg reports, the Treasury Department published a list of 13 individuals and 12 entities facing new restrictions, some for contributing to proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and others for links to terrorism.
Additional headlines from the Trump administration: