The world’s friendliest country for expats has been revealed in a survey – with a Central American destination topping the list. The result comes from a survey by InterNations, an expat guide, which asked foreign residents in 53 countries around the globe to rate their new home. Expats were asked about their social life, whether…
United States Customs and Border Protection has awarded a construction company roughly $70 million to a extend the wall along the southern border, in the first such contract of President Trump’s second term. The contract tasks Granite Construction Co., a California-based company that has worked on government projects before, with building approximately seven more miles…
Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are down to their lowest level in decades. Once-crowded migrant shelters are empty. Instead of heading north, people stranded in Mexico are starting to return home in bigger numbers. The border is almost unrecognizable from just a couple of years ago, when hundreds of thousands of people from around…
President Trump threatens 200% tariff on alcohol from EU President Donald Trump has threatened to place a 200% tariff on all alcohol from the European Union. WASHINGTON – To some people, President Donald Trump is shaking things up. To others, he is sowing an unusual amount of chaos and confusion in a world that has…
A group of volunteers searching for their missing relatives first received a tip last week about a mass grave hidden in western Mexico. When they arrived at an abandoned ranch outside La Estanzuela, a small rural village outside Guadalajara, they discovered three underground cremation ovens, burned human remains, hundreds of bone shards and discarded personal…
With a trade war brewing, President Trump gave the Mexican president a sign of grudging respect: “You’re tough,” he told her in a phone call last month, according to four people with knowledge of the exchange. By their most recent conversation, the two leaders were trading compliments and carving out a reprieve from some tariffs…
Chained, detained for weeks and eventually deported, two German tourists trying to enter the United States were recently tangled in a system responding to President Trump’s push to sharply restrict entry and deport people en masse. The cases of Jessica Brösche, held for 46 days, and Lucas Sielaff, held for 16, and accounts of their…
Juana Perez Gomez, 49, of the indigenous Tzotzil Maya, uses a backstrap loom to make a fabric, in … [+] Zinacantan, Chiapas state, Mexico, on September 8, 2021. – Indigenous weavers from a village nestled among the green hills of southern Mexico create beautiful garments and struggle to make a dignified living from their work…
BEIJING (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump threw a curve ball at China by linking the fentanyl issue to his tariffs on imports. The Chinese government is swinging back. First it issued a report detailing its efforts to control the illegal trade in fentanyl, specifically the ingredients for the opioid that are made in China….
President Donald Trump’s tariffs on the imports of steel and aluminium by the United States are sending shockwaves through global markets and escalating tensions with key trading partners, including Canada, Mexico and the European Union. Some countries are fighting back with retaliatory tariffs, others are seeking exemptions, and a few are trying to negotiate their…