A list of everything the Trump administration has done so far. WASHINGTON — Much of President Donald Trump’s first weekend in the White House was driven by criticism from Trump and press secretary Sean Spicer of media coverage over the size of his inauguration crowd. But the new administration is also driving policy changes that will have far more long-term significance. Here’s a list of the Trump administration’s actions in its first 72 hours: Taken over running of the entire federal government.Issued an executive order aimed at rolling back former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.Halted a reduction to the annual mortgage insurance premiums borrowers pay when taking out government-backed home loans.Ordered agencies to freeze new regulations, giving the new administration time to review them.Received a key legal OK from the Justice Department for Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner to take on a role in the White House.Met with the CIA, where he addressed employees.
CAF Website Hacked By Russian Group - Ghanacelebrities.com. IRIN | Inside Venezuela's hidden healthcare crisis. Venezuela is in the midst of a healthcare crisis caused by a crippling lack of state resources. Medicines and basic hospital equipment are now in such short supply that doctors struggle to make diagnoses, let alone provide treatment. And yet, they continue to try to do their best for their patients, even as they lack the tools to deal with a resurgence of previously eradicated diseases such as malaria and diphtheria and rising maternal and infant mortality rates. Meanwhile, the government of President Nicolas Maduro has refused to lift a ban on international aid that could alleviate the crisis. The government also restricts media access to public health facilities and penalises health workers who speak out. Jamaica Voted to Block UN Mandate of the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity | Petchary's Blog.
The voting board for the Draft Amendment on December 19. Those in favor (including Jamaica) are in green, and those against in red. Countries abstaining have a yellow mark beside their names. (Screenshot from UN Web TV) Is the Jamaican Government serious about protecting the rights of all its citizens? A recent vote in the United Nations certainly does not reflect this. On December 19, a second attempt was made to block the United Nations mandate of the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) at the 71st Plenary Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. The vote on December 19 on a resolution to block the UN SOGI mandate. For your interest and information, here is the voting record of Caribbean nations on this resolution.
For: Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Against: Antigua/Barbuda, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, St. Abstained: Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago Suriname and Cuba did not vote. December 19, 2016 (Article 3): Berlin Christmas market: 9 dead, at least 50 injured in truck crash. Authorities have apprehended the suspected driver, according to a police spokesman. The crash occurred in Breitscheidplatz in the western part of central Berlin. Another person who was in the truck died on scene, Berlin police tweeted. "A truck just ran over a sidewalk at #Breitscheidplatz Our colleague report multiple injuries. more to follow," Berlin police tweeted.
Witness Emma Rushton tweeted: "People crushed. I am safe. I am safe. " Rushton told CNN that the truck didn't slow down. "There's no way it was an accident," Rushton told CNN. "We saw at least 10 people" injured and lying on the ground, she said. Police could not confirm whether the incident was related to terror and had no information on the driver. Video showed the vehicle was a tractor-trailer. Jan Hollitzer, deputy editor-in-chief of Berliner Morgenpost, a Berlin newspaper, said he saw people underneath the truck when it came to a stop.
The market is difficult to access by accident. Germany's bloody year. Ta-Nehisi Coates Perfectly Explains How Racism Helped Donald Trump Win | The Huffington Post. Gender Rights Defender Arrested in Egypt. Log In. 2 teens killed in auto accident joins string of stark, tragic Facebook Live broadcasts. "Are you going live? " It would be the final question Brooke Miranda Hughes would hear before a tractor-trailer plowed into the back of her car as it crawled down Interstate 380 in Pennsylvania just after midnight Tuesday (Dec. 6).
Chaniya Morrison-Toomey, the passenger who posed the question, was referring to Facebook Live, which Hughes had just launched to broadcast live from her moving vehicle, according to the Scranton Times-Tribune. The final moments of their young lives -- marked by a flash of lights, screeching tires and then seven minutes of blackness --- were captured on the live-streamed video after Hughes, sitting behind the wheel, held her phone near her face for the rest of the world to see. Hughes, 18, and Morrison-Toomey, 19, were declared dead at the scene. The driver of the truck that killed them was uninjured, according to the Associated Press. "Stay with me," she told Philando Castile. "It broke me," she said. "They were both down-to-Earth people," she told the paper. Giraffes land on extinction watch list. WASHINGTON -- The giraffe, the tallest land animal, is now at risk of extinction, biologists say.
Because the giraffe population has shrunk nearly 40 percent in just 30 years, scientists put it on the official watch list of threatened and endangered species worldwide, calling it "vulnerable. " That's two steps up the danger ladder from its previous designation of being a species of least concern. In 1985, there were between 151,000 and 163,000 giraffes but in 2015 the number was down to 97,562, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). At a biodiversity meeting Wednesday in Mexico, the IUCN increased the threat level for 35 species and lowered the threat level for seven species on its "Red List" of threatened species, considered by scientists the official list of what animals and plants are in danger of disappearing.
The giraffe is the only mammal whose status changed on the list this year. Scientists blame habitat loss. But they're not, Fennessy said. West African Countries Ban 'Dirty European Fuel' Catholic Church Apologises for Role in Rwanda Genocide. Alt-right: How the white nationalist fringe invaded the mainstream. Until a year ago, David Duke was like the the Ku Klux Klan he once headed, a relic of another era; a darker, uglier America of burning crosses, white hoods, racism and violence.
Just like his sieg-heiling acolytes in the so-called "alt-right", Duke and his white nationalist comrades were a nasty fringe of right wing politics defined by anti-Semitism and racism. However, the election of Donald Trump has brought the alt-right movement to the fore. Duke and other white nationalists such as Jared Taylor, the founder of white supremacist publication American Renaissance, and Richard B Spencer, who coined the alt-right term, have suddenly started appearing in mainstream media outlets. A search on Google News brings up some 588,000 articles on Duke and 131,000 on Spencer.
This clamour for information has seen web searches for the alt-right rocketing since September. The rise of the alt-right "Both Spencer and the term alt-right were [...] unknown to the US public until the rise of Donald Trump. Ethiopian Runner Crowned World Athlete of the Year. IRIN | If Trump’s America shrinks humanitarian support, will China fill the void? China’s latest “white paper” is another sign of the country’s decision to play a larger role in global affairs. It comes after statements from US president-elect Donald Trump that suggest he will lead his country in retreat from internationalism. Can China fill a potential void in humanitarianism? The received wisdom is that China’s internal dynamics limit the country’s ability to become a true humanitarian leader, but there are indications it might seek to raise its profile in certain fields, particularly peacekeeping and possibly climate change.
“The white paper focuses on development, but it does not promise anything about democracy, personal freedom and human rights,” said Xu Guoqi, a professor of history at the University of Hong Kong who is writing a book called The Idea of China. He said China’s unwillingness to promote those ideals at home undermines its ability to take a lead role in global affairs. “For sure, China wants a stronger and more dominant regional role,” he said. Jf/ag. Log In. Photo WASHINGTON — President-elect spoke by telephone with Taiwan’s president on Friday, a striking break with nearly four decades of diplomatic practice that could precipitate a major rift with China even before Mr. Trump takes office. Mr. Trump’s office said he spoke with the Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, “who offered her congratulations.” He is believed to be the first president or president-elect who has spoken to a Taiwanese leader since 1979, when the United States severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan after its recognition of the People’s Republic of China.
In the statement, Mr. The White House was not told about Mr. But the potential fallout from the conversation was significant, the administration official said, noting that the Chinese government issued a bitter protest after the United States sold weapons to Taiwan as part of a well-established arms agreement. Mr. Continue reading the main story. New Study Puts Us Closer To HIV Cure. There’s more hope in the future for curing HIV. A new study found that an experimental HIV vaccine coupled with an immune system-stimulating compound showed signs for a cure.
Using monkeys with a virus equivalent to human’s HIV, the combination of the vaccine and compound reduced the virus to undetectable levels without antiretroviral treatments, according to Huffington Post. Unlike antiretroviral treatment, which keeps HIV at low levels in the body, this vaccine and immune system compound could actually lead to a cure. Lead study investigator, Dan Barouch, infected 36 monkeys with a virus similar to HIV. Then, he gave the monkeys an antiretroviral treatment to suppress virus levels. After six months, the virus rebounded in some of the monkeys. But for the monkeys that were given the vaccine and immune system compound, it took 2.5 times longer for the virus to return. To date, there is no cure for HIV. Related HIV May Hide In Tissues Even After Treatment November 1, 2016 In "HIV/AIDS" South African Deputy President Booed at World Aids Day Event. Log In. He is now one of just a few surviving witnesses to the Islamic State’s killings in Hamam al-Alil.
One evening around 8 p.m. several weeks ago, he said, he watched from his rooftop as eight minibuses drove toward the area where the mass grave was discovered, and he heard gunshot after gunshot. “I saw Daesh bury 200 bodies over here,” he said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State, which is also known as or ISIL. (The official government estimate is that roughly 100 people were killed in Hamam al-Alil.
But Human Rights Watch, after carrying out its own investigation, believes that at least 300 were killed there.) In the days before the killings, he said, Islamic State militants herded hundreds of people — perhaps thousands — from nearby villages and took them to Hamam al-Alil, using them as human shields against the possibility of American airstrikes. “I cannot believe I am still alive,” Mr. For Iraqis, the pain of not knowing can be the worst of all. Continue reading the main story. Ohio State attacker plows into crowd, stabs people on campus with butcher knife.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man plowed his car into a group of pedestrians at Ohio State University and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife before he was shot and killed by an officer Monday morning, campus police said. Nine people were hurt, one critically, and Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said police were looking into whether it was a terrorist attack. The details emerged after a morning of confusion and conflicting reports that began with the university issuing a series of tweets warning students that there was an "active shooter" on campus near the engineering building and that they should "run, hide, fight.
" Numerous police vehicles and ambulances converged on the 60,000-student campus, and authorities blocked off roads. Ohio State Police Chief Craig Stone said that the attacker drove over a curb outside a classroom building and that an officer who was nearby shot the driver. "There were several moments of chaos," she said. 'I Was Misunderstood On Trump's Election' - Liberian President. Trump supporter rants on airplane, Delta apologizes, AJC reports. In a video posted to Facebook on Tuesday, November 22, 2016, a man is shown shouting "Donald Trump, baby! " and asking passengers, "We got some Hillary bi----s on here? " while aboard a Delta Airlines flight bound for Pennsylvania from Atlanta. Delta issued a statement apologizing for the incident Saturday. (iStock Photo) Delta Airlines has apologized following a video posted to Facebook that shows a man's profanity-laced speech in support of Donald Trump on a flight Tuesday (Nov. 22), the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
In the video, an unidentified man yells "Donald Trump, baby! " In a statement issued Saturday, Delta described the event as a "disruption" and said the passenger "should not have been allowed to continue on the flight. " "Our responsibility for ensuring all customers feel safe and comfortable with Delta includes requiring civil behavior from everyone," the statement reads. Uganda: South Sudan Refugees Resort to Selling Charcoal for Survival.
By Robert Elema Yumbe — The continued influx of South Sudan refugees has exerted more pressure on environment with more trees being cut for firewood in the refugee settlement camps. Reports from the Office of the Prime Minister indicate incessant cutting down of trees in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement Camp. Illegal business While speaking to Daily Monitor on Wednesday, the Yumbe District chairperson, Mr Yassin Taban, noted that the refugees have started burning and selling of charcoal in the camps, a business venture that was banned by the district council over environmental concerns.
He said activities of cutting down trees in the camps are rampant but the concerned authorities managing refugees are not taking action. "We understand that the partners are busy with emergency cases but there is need to address the issue of the environment by conserving it. Cause Mr Taban attributed the continuous dry spell in the area to the destruction of the environment. Donald Trump's rise could boost his empire or damage his brand.
Days after Donald Trump's election victory, a news agency in the former Soviet republic of Georgia reported that a long-stalled plan for a Trump-branded tower in a seaside Georgian resort town was now back on track. Likewise, the local developer of a Trump Tower planned for Buenos Aires announced last week, three days after Trump spoke with Argentina's president, that the long-delayed project was moving ahead. Meanwhile, foreign government leaders seeking to speak with Trump have reached out to the president-elect through his overseas network of business partners, an unusually informal process for calls traditionally coordinated with the U.S. State Department. All of it highlights the muddy new world that Trump's election may usher in - a world in which his stature as the U.S. president, the status of his private ventures across the globe and his relationships with foreign business partners and the leaders of their governments could all become intertwined.
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Scientists have identified an antibody that neutralises 98% of HIV strains. India's cash crisis is making life even harder for the sick - Nov. 18, 2016.