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US president says he directed the Commerce Department to immediately work on a ‘new and highly accurate’ survey.

Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump has said that he directed officials to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in the Census – a survey of the US population conducted every 10 years.

Trump said he directed the Commerce Department, which oversees the US Census Bureau, to immediately work on “new and highly accurate” survey based on…

Ten days after Israeli settler Yinon Levi shot and killed Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, the Israeli army and police finally released his body for burial. His funeral was held today near his birthplace, in the community of Umm Al-Khair in the occupied West Bank.

Although Hathaleen was shot dead 35 meters away from where Levi stood, and there has been no allegation that he posed any threat,…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel plans to take control of “all of Gaza.” Speaking to Fox News before a security cabinet meeting, he said Israel doesn’t want to govern the strip but would hand it over to ‘Arab forces’ to govern. Hamas rejected his comments, saying they are a reversal of the course of ceasefire negotiations.

Trump’s administration halts mRNA vaccine development, sparking WHO fears for emerging pandemic preparedness.

The decision by US President Donald Trump’s administration to terminate 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines is a major blow to a hugely promising platform, the World Health Organization said.

“This is, of course, a significant blow,” WHO immunisation figurehead Joachim Hombach told the UN correspondents’ association ACANU on Thursday.

The Department of Health and…

A top Kremlin foreign policy aide said Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will meet “in the coming days.” The White House has not confirmed such a meeting and a day earlier said a summit including Ukraine’s president was on the table.