Mexico condemns Trump's border wall tax proposal
Mexico has condemned a US suggestion that it may impose a 20% tax on Mexican imports to pay for President Donald Trump's planned border wall.
Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said such tax would make Mexican imports more expensive for US consumers and they would end up paying for the wall.
The Mexican president earlier cancelled a visit to the US amid the row of who would pay for the barrier.
The planned wall was one of Mr Trump's key election campaign pledges.
Earlier this week, the president signed an executive order to create a wall along the 2,000-mile (3,200km) US-Mexico border.
If you want to know how Isis was really created, Donald Trump, then start with US torture programmes
A confession given by a Libyan national during torture was America's excuse for invading Iraq. ‘They were killing me,’ the terror suspect later told the FBI about their torturers. ‘I had to tell them something’
We are learning very quickly that Donald Trump intends to deliver on the threats he made on the campaign trail.
His promise to bring back waterboarding (simulated drowning) and other heinous tortures is now under active consideration by his administration.
Yesterday the President told ABC News that he wanted to “fight fire with fire” so that America could level the playing field against Isis, by resurrecting the CIA’s illegal “enhanced interrogation” programmes because he believes torture “absolutely works”.
But torture absolutely doesn’t work.
Deadly Chile wildfire destroys entire town
Latest update : 2017-01-27
Flames from one of Chile's worst wildfires completely consumed the town of Santa Olga as the death toll from the blazes since November rose to 10, officials said Thursday.
The flames engulfed the post office, a kindergarten, and about 1,000 homes in the town, located 220 miles (360 kilometers) south of the Chilean capital. The body of one person was found under the charred remains of the town, which another 6,000 residents fled unharmed. Officials have not identified the person who died.
"This is an extremely serious situation — of horror, a nightmare without an end," said Carlos Valenzuela, the mayor of the neighboring coastal city of Constitucion. "Everything burned."
Southern Thailand’s separatist violence shows no signs of ending
Insurgency to create a Muslim state goes back decades but has ramped up since 2004
Tom Farrell in Pattani
Outside the Grand Mosque in Pattani, the largest in Thailand, white-veiled adolescents congregate, waiting for one of the motorised trishaws that ferry residents around the town of 120,000.
Many of the men here wear prayer caps and sport beards. It is a reminder of how Pattani – capital city of a province of the same name – feels culturally closer to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur than the Thai capital of Bangkok.
A pronounced military presence can be seen on the highways that link Pattani with Yala and Narathiwat, Thailand’s two other majority Muslim provinces. This is not surprising, given the region’s separatist violence, which has killed thousands. Although technically there is no curfew, the town falls silent soon after dark.
France prosecuting citizens for 'crimes of solidarity'
French citizens are facing prosecution and even jail time for helping refugees and migrants.
Paris, France - Trying to ward off the overnight cold with a blanket donated by volunteers, Muktar Ali was sleeping rough in the north of Paris when at about 4:30am, the police returned. He and several other Eritreans say they were pushed, prodded and kicked by police clearing the area.
"Police took everything I had - clothes, shoes, blanket - and threw it all away," said Ali, 33, who had fled forced conscription in Eritrea and was held captive by rebels in Libya before crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Now, he's among many refugees living on the streets of Paris, who have been subjected to displacement, detention and deportations.
Homeward bound: Afghan refugees in a bind
JANUARY 27, 2017 1:06 AM
Pakistan’s ultimatum to Afghan refugees living on its soil to leave the country by March 31 or face deportation has evoked much apprehension among the latter. They are being forced back although the situation in Afghanistan is hardly conducive to their return.
According to the Global Peace Index, Afghanistan is the third least peaceful country in the world after Syria, and Iraq, where the overall security situation worsened “considerably” in 2016. “Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous, and most violent, crisis ridden countries in the world,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) observed in a recent report, pointing out that in 2016 Afghanistan saw “the highest number of civilian casualties on record.”
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