Gold climbs after Trump fires US attorney general January 31, 2017 The price of gold climbed overnight, edged on by uncertainty after US President Donald Trump fired attorney general Sally Yates. Global markets opened lower today, and safe haven assets such as gold and silver got a boost as investors looked for certainty. The precious yellow metal was up 0.5 per cent to $1,202, while the [...]
Boris Johnson says Trump’s travel ban will make no difference to British passport holders January 30, 2017 Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has told MPs that holders of British passports will remain unaffected by harsh new immigration rules introduced in the US. President Donald Trump signed an executive order introducing a 90 day restriction on arrivals from Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Yemen. Despite reassurances from the Foreign Office this weekend, [...]
Trump’s travel ban appeal has failed at the first hurdle February 5, 2017 The US appeals court has rejected a request by Donald Trump to immediately reinstate his ban on people from certain countries entering the US, after filing an appeal against a ruling that put a temporary halt on the ban. The US Justice Department (DOJ) has filed a motion seeking to reverse Friday's decision by a federal judge in Seattle, [...]
Amazon and Expedia back Washington state’s lawsuit against Trump’s travel ban January 30, 2017 The state of Washington is set to take Trump to federal court with the help of technology companies Amazon and Expedia to challenge the US President's executive order to ban travel from certain countries. Attorney general Bob Ferguson today said he was filing a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, the US Department of Homeland Security and [...]
Protesters march on the streets of London in opposition to Trump’s travel ban January 30, 2017 Protesters are gathering outside of 10 Downing Street and elsewhere across the UK in opposition to US President Donald Trump's controversial new executive order that banned travel from seven majority Muslim countries. At the protest tonight, there will be speeches from MPs including Ed Miliband and Caroline Lucas. A Press Association reporter on the scene said [...]
It’s not over: Donald Trump is preparing a new travel ban February 11, 2017 Donald Trump last night said he's considering signing a new executive order banning travel from people of certain countries. The news comes a day after a US federal appeals court upheld a decision to suspended the US President's controversial ban. After angrily tweeting that the ruling put US national security at risk, Trump announced he was mulling a "brand new [...]
The year of the vampire: 2017 is when political risk bites back January 3, 2017 “I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.” – Bela Lugosi Perhaps the greatest single indicator that the West no longer rules the world is its constituent nations’ signal inability to solve any of their many festering crises. Gormless, wildly overrated Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany epitomises this [...]
Trump bans Syrian refugees January 28, 2017 The US President has banned Syrian refugees from entering the country to "keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the US". Trump signed an executive order which also suspended the admission of refugees for four months, and stopped visitors coming from six mainly Muslim countries for three months. Read more: Trump: "We have one of the great bonds" At a [...]
PwC US chairman reassures staff over Trump travel ban January 31, 2017 The US chairman and senior partner of professional services giant PwC has become one of the latest business names to reassure staff over Donald Trump's travel ban over seven Muslim majority countries. In a message posted on Facebook, Tim Ryan wrote: I want to thank all those who have reached out to me in the [...]
Some of the world’s biggest tech companies join the fight against US President Donald Trump’s travel ban February 6, 2017 Some of the world’s biggest tech groups have officially joined the fight against US President Donald Trump’s travel ban on nationals from certain Muslim-majority countries. Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook are among 97 companies to file an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief, making clear their support for efforts to stop the travel ban. [...]