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JERUSALEM  – When Benjamin Netanyahu sent a tweet in support of President Donald Trump‘s plan for a wall along the Mexican border, the Israeli prime minister can barely have expected it would be retweeted 40,000 times and cause a backlash at home and abroad. Check also: Iran To Ban All American Citizens From Entry In Response To Trump’s Travel Ban Already ...

Iran is carefully studying US President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and will take legal, political and reciprocal measures accordingly, Iran’s Foreign Affairs Ministry announced Saturday. Check also: Celebrities Who Said They’d Leave The Country If Trump Wins Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif didn’t specify what those measures would be, but he affirmed in a tweet that anyone ...

Denmark was named the least corrupt country in the world in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2016 released on Wednesday. The index, which is published by Berlin-based Transparency International, aims to rank nations “based on how corrupt a country’s public sector is perceived to be.” The index ranked 176 countries on a scale of 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very ...

BANJUL – Thousands of people lined the streets of Gambia’s capital Banjul on Thursday to welcome home new President Adama Barrow days after authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh fled into exile under pressure from regional forces. Check also: Gambia’s Jammeh Under Military Pressure, He Agrees To Step Down Adama, a former real estate agent, won a Dec. 1 election but Jammeh refused ...

Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto cancelled on Thursday a scheduled meeting with US President Donald Trump next week amid a deepening dispute over a border wall promised by America’s new leader. Check also: President Omar Gulleh Of Djibouti Believes Trump Will Pay Little Attention To Africa Enrique Pena wrote this on Twitter Esta mañana hemos informado a la Casa Blanca que ...