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শীর্ষবিন্দু আন্তর্জাতিক নিউজ ডেস্ক: যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের প্রেসিডেন্ট ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্পের মুসলিম বিরোধী নির্বাহী আদেশের ফলে পাল্টে যাচ্ছে বিমান সংস্থা এমিরেটসসের পাইলট ও কেবিন ক্রু। যুক্তরাষ্ট্রগামী এ বিমান সংস্থায় এ পরিবর্তন আসছে। দুবাইভিত্তিক এই বিমান সংস্থার প্রতিদিন ১১টি ফ্লাইট যায় যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের বিভিন্ন শহরে। রোববার তাদের একজন মুখপাত্র বার্তা সংস্থা রয়টার্সকে বলেছেন, সর্বশেষ পরিস্থিতি মেনে চলতে তারা তাদের এ পরিবর্তন আনছেন। উল্লেখ্য, ইরান, ইরাক, লিবিয়া, সোমালিয়া, সুদান, সিরিয়া ও ইয়েমেনের শরণার্থী ও অভিবাসীদের যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে প্রবেশ নিষিদ্ধ করে একটি নির্বাহী আদেশে গত শুক্রবার সই করেন প্রেসিডেন্ট ট্রাম্প। তারপর থেকে বিশ্বজুড়ে তীব্র প্রতিক্রিয়া সৃষ্টি হয়েছে। বার্তা সংস্থা রয়টার্স রিপোর্ট করেছে যে, ট্রাম্পের ওই নিষেধাজ্ঞার আওতায় আসবে নিষিদ্ধ সাতটি দেশের পাইলট ও ফ্লাইট অ্যাটেনডেন্টরাও। কিন...

    Theresa May's controversial decision to invite Donald Trump for a state visit to the UK has put the Queen in a very difficult position, a former head of the Foreign Office has claimed. In a letter to The Times, Lord Ricketts urged the Prime Minister to move fast to save the Queen from further controversy by downgrading the visit as protests against Mr Trump's divisive travel ban spread from the US to major cities across the UK. He claimed Mrs May's invitation was both premature and unprecedented, as no president has ever been given a state visit during their first year in the White House. Although Barack Obama first visited the UK two months into his presidency, it took 28 months before he made a state visit. George W Bush spent 32 months in office before being hosted by t...

    Donald Trump A mutiny among US diplomats was gathering steam on Monday as hundreds of state department officials were reported to have signed a memo fiercely dissenting from Trump’s refugee ban. We are better than this ban, one leaked version of the memo said, arguing that it would backfire, making the US less safe from terrorism. The executive order, freezing entry for nationals of a list of seven majority Muslim countries, stands in opposition to the core American and constitutional values that we, as federal employees, took an oath to uphold, the memo said. The memo is being sent through the state department’s dissent channel, set up at the time of the Vietnam war to allow alternative points of view to be aired inside the institution. Under its foreign affairs manual, d...

    Barack Obama has broken his silence on his successor’s presidency after only 10 days, issuing a short statement that attacks Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban. The president [Obama] fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion, a spokesman for Obama said. During his final press conference as president earlier this month, Obama listed a number of issues that might prompt him to return to the political fray. President Donald Trump shakes hands with ex-President Barack Obama after he took the oath of office at the Inauguration Ceremony in Washington, D.C. Trump became the 45th President of the United States There’s a difference between [the] normal functioning of politics and certain issues or certain m...

    US coffeehouse chain, Starbucks has pledged to hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years in the 75 countries where it does business in response to President Donald Trump’s order banning travel from seven Muslim majority countries, the media reported. We are living in an unprecedented time, chairman and CEO Howard Schultz wrote in a memo on Sunday, which listed several actions, the company said it was taking to reinforce our belief in our partners around the world. The refugee hiring proposal, Schultz wrote, will begin with a focus on people who have served with US troops as interpreters and support personnel, CNN reported. Schultz also reiterated Starbucks’ support for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme (DACA), which helps undocumented immigrants who ...

    Trump signs a memorandum to security services directing them to defeat the Islamic State in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington President Donald Trump discussed Syria and the fight against Islamic State with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday in one of several calls with world leaders that the new U.S. president used to put his stamp on international affairs. Trump's call with Putin was their first since the New York businessman took office and came as officials said he was considering lifting sanctions on Moscow despite opposition from Democrats and Republicans at home and European allies abroad. Neither the White House nor the Kremlin mentioned a discussion of sanctions in their statements about the roughly hour-long call. Vladimir Putin The positi...

    Theresa May has issued a late-night statement saying she does not agree with Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries entering the US, after coming under intense political pressure to condemn the order. The prime minister released her comments through a spokesman shortly after midnight, saying the UK would make representations” if British citizens were affected by the 90-day ban on travel to the US for those from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria or Yemen. Immigration policy in the United States is a matter for the government of the United States, just the same as immigration policy for this country should be set by our government, the spokesman said. But we do not agree with this kind of approach and it is not one we will be ta...

    It has emerged that Theresa May was only photographed hand-in-hand with Donald Trump because, bizarre as it sounds, the president may have a fear of slopes and needed a soothing arm to negotiate a downhill stretch of path. The image of the pair holding hands was beamed around the world, to the delight of supporters of the new President but to the consternation of those many of them in the UK  far less keen on Mr Trump. But Government sources in Washington DC were suggesting that the hand-holding was not as a result of a deep and lasting friendship after all. The insider said that Mr Trump is known to have an aversion to slopes or stairs, and said this could have been the reason for the president's decision to grasp the Prime Minister’s hand. Such a fear is a recognise...

    Theresa May and Donald Trump have been photographed holding hands as they took a walk through the White House. The candid moment was caught by a photographer moments before the two world leaders held a joint news conference. It is unclear who initiated the contact as they walked along The Colonnade. Ms May is the first world leader to meet the Republican in Washington after his inauguration last Friday. Both leaders used the news conference to reinforce their commitment to the "special relationship" between the US and UK. We pledge our lasting support to this most special relationship, Mr Trump said. He added that friendly relations between the UK and US was "one of the great forces in history for justice and for peace". Ms May said an "even stronger special relationship" ...

    Saudi Arabia, one of the world's most prominent Muslim nations which has previously been associated with terrorism and religious extremism, is likely to escape censure from Donald Trump. The US leader is expected to sign a draft executive order blocking refugee admissions from Syria, barring all refugees from the rest of the world for at least 120 days and suspending immigration from Syria and six other predominantly Muslim countries, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, for at least 30-days. But the document, which could still be amended before it is officially signed, appears to make no mention of Saudi Arabia, despite the Middle-Eastern country's associations with the largest terror attack on US soil. Of the 19 hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks on the World...