Donald Trump considers issuing new travel ban
Donald Trump is considering a new executive order to ban citizens of certain countries from travelling to the US after his initial attempt was overturned in the courts.
Mr Trump told reporters on Air Force One that a "brand new order" could be issued as early as Monday or Tuesday.
It comes after an appeals court in San Francisco upheld a court ruling to suspend his original order.
It barred entry from citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries.
It is unclear what a new US immigration order might look like.
Mr Trump said that it would change "very little", but he did not provide details of any new ban under consideration.
China expels South Korean missionaries amid missile defence tensions
Beijing believed to be retaliating against Seoul’s plan to host Terminal High Altitude Area Defence system of the US military
China has expelled 32 South Korean Christian missionaries, a Seoul official has said, amid diplomatic tension between the two countries over the planned deployment of a US missile defence system.
The 32 were based in China’s northeastern Yanji region near the border with North Korea, many of whom had worked there more than a decade, South Korean media has reported.
South Korea’s foreign ministry said on Friday it briefed Christian groups on the case of the missionaries, adding that they were expelled in January.
Donald Trump lost in translation after 'failing to use earpiece' for Japanese premier's news conference
The president apparently laughed after taking cues from his aides
When Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson were famously lost in translation, the setting for the 2003 movie was a Japanese hotel.
When the Japanese Prime Minster visited the White House, it was the turn of Donald Trump to have language problems, after he apparently failed to use his translation earpiece to listen to the visiting premier’s remarks.
Mr Trump has spoken warmly of his regard for Shinzo Abe, and the Japanese prime minister visited the New York tycoon before his inauguration - one of the very first foreign leaders to do so.
Striking Brazilian police 'to return to work on Saturday'
Officials in Brazil's Espirito Santo state say police will return to work on Saturday after an agreement was reached to end the strike. A week of violent lawlessness has left more than 120 people in the state dead.
The walk-out is expected to end at 7 a.m. local time (09:00 UTC) on Saturday morning, at which time police officers "will return to their duties," said Julio César Pompeu, the secretary of human rights of Espírito Santo, which had been negotiating an end to the strike.
Pompeu said those who supported the strike "will not suffer disciplinary sanctions."
The state's entire police force walked off the job a week ago in a row over pay, when the officers' female relatives sidestepped a law barring police from demonstrating and barricaded the obliging officers into their police stations.
Democracy and drama: 100 million Indians to cast pivotal vote
By Juliet Perry, CNN
Saturday sees the first vote cast in one of the world's biggest exercises in democracy.
From slums, villages, towns and cities, millions of people will make their way to polling stations, in a seven-phase election that takes place over four weeks in Uttar Pradesh, India.
If the 2012 election is anything to go by, they'll stand in line for hours, determined to leave their mark on the make-up of the 403 seats up for grabs on the state legislature.
Indian media has covered every twist and turn of the campaign. There have been family feuds, corruption accusations, rows over cow vigilante violence and recriminations over statues and misspent funds.
The scandal over Mike Flynn's secret talks with the Russians, explained
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Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, may be in a lot of trouble.
Late Thursday night, the Washington Post reported that Flynn had called Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak on December 29, the same day that Obama had slapped new sanctions on Russia in retaliation for its hack of the US election. The conversation covered the sanctions, and, according to two officials, suggested that the Trump administration would be rolling back the sanctions in the future.
That would mean Flynn had been actively trying to undermine Obama administration policy while not yet in office — a big, questionably legal no-no. Indeed, the FBI is currently investigating the content of the Flynn calls.
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