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US lawmakers demand Trump officials halt plan to send Afghans to DRC

Government urged to reconsider proposal for 1,100 Afghans, currently stranded in Qatar, who worked with US forces

Dozens of US lawmakers urged the Trump administration on Thursday to roll back any plans to ship to unsafe third countries Afghan nationals who worked with US forces during the war in their homeland.

In a letter seen by Reuters, more than 80 House of Representatives members, including at least three Republicans as well as Democrats, appealed to secretary of state, Marco Rubio, to reconsider plans for 1,100 Afghans who have been stranded in Qatar awaiting relocation.

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© Photograph: Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images

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Rubio inks public-private partnership with UFC ahead of White House cage fights

Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday with the UFC to create a public-private partnership with the mixed martial arts company ahead of this weekend’s cage fights on the White House’s South Lawn.  Rubio referred to the UFC as the “United Nations of fighting” in his Thursday remarks lauding the company…

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Rubio inks public-private partnership with UFC ahead of White House cage fights

Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday with the UFC to create a public-private partnership with the mixed martial arts company ahead of this weekend’s cage fights on the White House’s South Lawn.  Rubio referred to the UFC as the “United Nations of fighting” in his Thursday remarks lauding the company…

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Trump’s Board of Peace faces funding questions, trouble in Gaza

President Trump’s highly publicized Board of Peace is facing new questions over the sources — and destinations — of its funding, even as its flagship project, the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, stalls in the face of numerous obstacles. At an inaugural signing ceremony for the board in February, Trump touted a U.S. pledge of…

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Trump’s Board of Peace faces funding questions, trouble in Gaza

President Trump’s highly publicized Board of Peace is facing new questions over the sources — and destinations — of its funding, even as its flagship project, the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, stalls in the face of numerous obstacles. At an inaugural signing ceremony for the board in February, Trump touted a U.S. pledge of…

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U.S. Officials Told Colombia to Cancel President’s Meeting With Mamdani

The State Department canceled President Gustavo Petro’s visa last year after he attended a pro-Palestinian rally in Manhattan. He had planned to attend a forum led by Mayor Mamdani of New York.

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President Gustavo Petro of Colombia during a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on Wednesday.
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