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US to close 2 Russia consulates ​ By IANS | Published on ​ Sat, Dec 19 2020 15:42 IST | ​ 2 Views US to close 2 Russia consulates. Image Source: IANS News Washington, Dec 19 : The US Department of State informed Congress that it has planned to close two consulates in Russia over limits set by the government in Moscow on the number of American diplomats allowed in the country, the media reported. In a letter dated December 10 and obtained by The Hill news website, the Department infor...

GOP moves to ensure US embassy stays in Jerusalem   December 18, 2020 (JNS) — Ahead of the three-year anniversary of U.S. President Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, more than three-dozen Republican members of Congress have called for language in an upcoming must-pass appropriations bill that would prohibit American funding from being used to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Jerusalem. In a Dec. 4 letter, a group of 43 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representat...

Jewish Ledger GOP Congress members move to ensure US embassy in stays in Jerusalem (JNS) Ahead of the three-year anniversary of U.S President Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, more than three-dozen Republican members of Congress have called for language in an upcoming must-pass appropriations bill that would prohibit American funding from being used to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Jerusalem. In a Dec. 4 letter, a group of 43 Republicans in ...

The timing of America’s public designation of retired senior police officer Reneto Adams, and five members of his long-disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU), is a bit curious. And it would have carried far more weight if it had been done under a presidency other than Donald Trump’s in its waning days. But no matter who the messenger is, this development ought to be a reminder of the primacy of human rights in a liberal democracy, a commitment which requires more than pious declarations of s...

Retired Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams has described as barbaric and an insult, the decision by the United States authorities to ban his family members from travelling to that North American country.  At the same time, Adams says the United States decision to impose sanctions on him to enter the country has "not shaken his resolve" and his "high morals" that he has maintained over the years. "For me, Im alright. Ive never been fond of America. I have a visa going 50 years plus ...

Reneto Adams Former tough-talking and feared Senior Superintendent of Police, the controversial Reneto DeCordova Adams, and five other cops who were part of the now -disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), along with their immediate family members, have been banned from entering the United States. The former cops are among 17 officials and family members of foreign governments who have been blacklisted for what United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo...

US slaps sanctions against 17 officials of foreign govts including Chinese for violation of human rights

Speaker Pelosi was asked about the Hyde Amendment after her weekly presser on Thursday. The Hyde Amendment bans federal funding of most abortions. Democrats hate it and want everyone to pay for abortions, including, perhaps especially, Americans who are morally opposed to the practice or opposed to late-term abortions, and consider it murder. Late-term and partial-birth abortions are particularly concerning. Pelosi characterized the Hyde Amendment as an “unfairness for women.” A reporter as...

By Terence P. Jeffrey | December 10, 2020 | 12:11pm EST (Screen Capture) (CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said at her weekly press briefing today that she has opposed the Hyde Amendment—which prohibits federal funding of most abortions—ever since it was first enacted and hopes to kill it in the coming year because she sees the lack of federal funding for abortions as an "unfairness for women." A reporter asked Pelosi whether she inte...

WASHINGTON, (Sputnik) - The United States sanctioned 17 government officials in at least five nations for alleged violations of human rights, banning them and... 10.12.2020, Sputnik International