The US has applied a raft of stringent sanctions on Iran and has threatened even more, making good on threats by President Trump.
It’s been just over a week since 11 people were shot dead in a Synagogue in Pittsburgh in America. In a year that’s also seen students killed in Parkland, a number of states have introduced laws to restrict gun ownership. But that’s come at a cost for some politicians.
President Trump has eschewed saying much about the latest job figures which are up; or about the US economy which is booming. Instead it’s immigration. Jon Snow sat down with Anthony Scaramucci, Mr Trump’s former Press Secretary, and asked him why there’s such a focus on immigration.
In a state known as the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement, there are now accusations that state authorities are placing obstacles in the way of some seeking to cast their ballots. More often than not, it seems to be African American voters who are affected.
Jon Snow talked to Jineea Butler about claims of voter suppression and accusations that Trump immigration policy is racist. She is the unabashed pro-Trump Republican Candidate in the predominantly African American district of Harlem.
The charity Oxfam says some of the aid projects which it funds in Yemen have been hit by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, including a cholera treatment centre, accusing Britain of an “irresponsible and incoherent” policy in the country by continuing to sell arms to the Saudis.
Hundreds of people, including royal soldiers and monks, have joined relatives of the Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha at his funeral procession in Bangkok – at the start of seven days of ceremonies.
Jon Snow
Chicago O’Hare Airport. Mile upon mile of concrete runways with tiny quadrants of grass, and slow moving aircraft traffic criss-crossing ahead of us. We are in America. The eternal passport control awaits us, and thence to the open road. Five lanes in each direction, massive ten wheeler wagons belching un-green gases along in all but the not…
A range of politicians, voters and experts from across Indiana discuss Donald’s Trump’s America ahead of the mid-term elections.
This area has one of the highest manufacturing jobs per capita in the United States and it also has a diverse population, with many Hispanic and Latino workers and families.
She was a Christian farm labourer who drank from a cup of water intended for Muslim men in Pakistan. A row ensued and accusations of blasphemy, which led to her getting the death penalty.
The Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the consulate in Istanbul. That’s according to a Turkish prosecutor investigating the case.
Next Tuesday’s poll is the first chance Americans have had to deliver a verdict on President Trump through the ballot box. With turnout high in states including Texas and Georgia, where early voting’s already under way, Democrat hopes are up.
People are just drifting into this town after walking through the early hours of the morning, busy with finding somewhere to sleep, finding food, somewhere to repair their feet, and maybe have a shower.
The mayor of Pittsburgh has called it the city’s “darkest day”. The 11 people killed in a shooting at a synagogue yesterday have now been named. They ranged in age from 54 to 97.
