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Salman Rushdie Says 'Pleased' With Attacker's Jail Sentence

This is Beirut, 27/05 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Salman Rushdie said Monday he was "pleased" with the maximum 25-year jail sentence handed to a man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural center in 2022. "I was pleased that he got the maximum available, and hopefully he uses it to reflect upon his deeds," Rushdie told BBC radio in an interview. Hadi Matar was sentenced to 25 ...

Salman Rushdie’s attacker to be sentenced this Friday

This is Beirut, 16/05 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Hadi Matar will be sentenced on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack at a New York cultural center. Hadi Matar, 27, faces up to 25 years in prison after being convicted of attempted murder and assault charges in February this year. During the trial, Rushdie told jurors about Matar "stabbing and slashing" him ...

Harvard Sues Trump Over US Federal Funding Cuts

This is Beirut, 22/04 05:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Harvard sued US President Donald Trump's administration Monday in a sharp escalation of the fight between the prestigious university and the Republican, who has threatened its funding and sought to impose outside political supervision. Trump has sought to bring several prestigious universities to heel over claims they tolerated campus ...

More Than 130 Students in US Join Federal Lawsuit Over Revoked Visas

This is Beirut, 17/04 15:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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More than 130 international students across the United States have joined a federal lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully canceling their visas, jeopardizing their legal status in the country, court documents show. The students allege the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency abruptly and illegally terminated their status ...

California Sues US Government Over Trump Tariffs

This is Beirut, 17/04 05:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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California is suing the federal government over Donald Trump's on-again-off-again tariffs, the governor and attorney general said Wednesday, claiming the American president does not have the right to impose them. The move marks the strongest pushback yet against a tariff roll-out that has sent global stock markets into meltdown, and left ...

US Supreme Court Lifts Order Barring Deportations Using Wartime Law

This is Beirut, 08/04 05:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The US Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a victory on Monday by lifting a lower court order barring the deportation of undocumented Venezuelan migrants using an obscure wartime law. But the nation's top court also said that migrants subject to deportation under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act must be given an opportunity to legally ...

US Judge Orders Trump Admin To Save ‘Signalgate’ Chat

This is Beirut, 28/03 05:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A US judge ordered Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to preserve messages from a chat group used by top national security officials to discuss plans for an attack on Yemen's Huthi rebels. The ruling adds to the pressure on the White House after the Atlantic magazine revealed that its editor had been accidentally added to the group ...

From El Salvador mega-jail, Trump's homeland security chief tells migrants 'do not come'

This is Beirut, 27/03 05:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump's homeland security chief on Wednesday visited the mega-prison in El Salvador where hundreds of Venezuelan migrants have been deported under contested legal grounds. Standing in front of a cell of inmates who were stripped to the waist, revealing their tattooed torsos, Kristi Noem recorded a message telling others ...

Appeals Court Rejects Trump Bid to Lift Order Barring Deportations

This is Beirut, 27/03 03:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A US appeals court on Wednesday denied a bid by the Trump administration to lift a lower court order barring summary deportations of Venezuelan migrants using an obscure wartime law. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to temporarily keep in place the ban on deportations carried out under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act ...

Israel's Opposition Calls for General Strike

This is Beirut, 23/03 05:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israel's opposition leader on Saturday called for a general strike if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to obey a Supreme Court decision freezing the government's dismissal of the internal security chief. If the government "decides to disobey the Court's decision it will become a government outside of the law," Yair ...

Trump Wants Supreme Court's Help Against Federal Judges Who Block His Agenda

This is Beirut, 21/03 05:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump demanded Thursday that courts stop blocking his agenda, edging closer to a constitutional showdown after a judge suggested the administration had ignored an order to block summary deportations. A federal judge, in a strongly worded order, gave the Justice Department until Tuesday to explain why it went ahead with flights ...

Trump Veers Towards Courts Clash Over Migrant Flights

This is Beirut, 18/03 02:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump barreled towards a showdown with the courts Monday after his administration expelled alleged members of a Venezuelan gang under little-used, centuries-old wartime legislation. Trump, already pushing the law to its limits on several fronts, also claimed he had annulled pardons issued by Joe Biden on the grounds that his ...

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