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    Vanity Fair Mexico is facing a backlash after featuring a bejewelled Melania Trump on its latest front cover, just as her husband sparked a diplomatic crisis with the country by ordering the construction of a wall along America's southern border . The photo, which was recycled from GQ's April 2016 issue, shows the glamorous first lady posing with a fork and strings of jewels in a bowl like spaghetti, a jarring image for a country where almost half the population live in poverty . Melania Trump, on February cover, the magazine said on Twitter on Thursday. A report that reveals the past of this intriguing first lady. The front cover of Vanity Fair MexicoCredit: EPA The tweet appeared on the same day the White House suggested the US would make Mexico pay for the controversial...

    Britain and the US will never again invade sovereign foreign countries in an attempt to make the world in their own image, Theresa May told Republican policymakers in Philadelphia. The Prime Minister vowed never to repeat the failed policies of the past in reference to Western military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, breaking from the liberal intervention principle established by Tony Blair. Referencing the special relationship between the UK and US, Ms May also stressed the importance of cooperation between the two countries to meet their obligations of leadership and stand up for our interests. It is in our interests those of Britain and America together to stand strong together to defend our values, our interests and the very ideas in which we believe, she said. T...

    Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright tweeted Wednesday that she is prepared to register as a Muslim in solidarity as reports say President Trump plans on suspending the US’s refugee programme for 120 days. Albright said that there is no fine print on the Statue of Liberty and America must remain open to people of all faiths & backgrounds. She went on to say that she was raised Catholic, became Episcopalian and ‘found out later my family was Jewish.’ I stand ready to register as Muslim in #solidarity, she tweeted. The Hill reported that she is following in feminist icon Gloria Steinem’s vow to become Muslim if there is ever a registry, reports the Associated Press. Albright was a vocal critic of Trump in the election and lended her support to Hillary Clinton....

    The entire senior management team of the department announced it was leaving The entire senior level of management officials at the US State department has resigned - rather than serve under President Donald Trump. In the latest display of disquiet among civil servants in Washington over the new commander-in-chief, the four top senior officials at the equivalent of America's foreign ministry, announced they were standing down. The new Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, was present in the department’s offices in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington DC, when the officials resigned on Wednesday, the Washington Post reported. The officials were Patrick Kennedy, Under Secretary of State for Management, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assi...

    Flames from one of Chile’s worst wildfires completely consumed the town of Santa Olga as the death toll from the blazes since November rose to 10, officials said on Thursday. The flames engulfed the post office, a kindergarten, and about 1,000 homes in the town, located 220 miles (360 kilometres) south of the Chilean capital. The body of one person was found under the charred remains of the town, which another 6,000 residents fled unharmed. Officials have not identified the person who died. ‘This is an extremely serious situation of horror, a nightmare without an end,’ said Carlos Valenzuela, the mayor of the neighbouring coastal city of Constitucion. ‘Everything burned.’ Authorities found another body burned inside a house destroyed in the flames about 85 miles (140 kilom...

    I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, Trump tweeted Wednesday apparently unaware that his daughter Tiffany Trump, Chief White House Strategist Stephen Bannon and Treasury Secretary pick Steven Mnuchin were all reportedly registered to vote in two states during the 2016 election. Bannon was registered to vote in both Florida and New York, the Daily News confirmed Wednesday. According to the Florida Division of Elections, Bannon is an active registered Republican voter in Nokomis, Fla. He registered there on April 2, 2014. According to the New York State Board of Elections, Bannon is also registered as an active Republican voter in Manhattan. Stephen Bannon is actively registered to vote in both Florida...

    Mexican President Enrique Pe a Nieto Mexico’s president has once again declared that Mexico will not pay for any wall but stopped short of cancelling a visit to Washington after Donald Trump signed executive orders that include building the border barrier. Enrique Peña Nieto reiterated that Mexico would not put a single peso towards the new US president’s signature project. But Peña Nieto did not cancel a trip to Washington – a move many in Mexico had demanded after Trump signed an executive order to start plans for fencing off the frontier. I have said time and time again, Mexico will not pay for any wall, Peña Nieto told the nation in a short video statement on Wednesday night. Mexico reaffirms its friendship with the people of the United States and its willingness to re...

    Buried under a stack of presidential paperwork President Trump signed shortly after his inauguration was his first official proclamation, declaring last Friday a National Day of Patriotic Devotion. But by the time anyone found out about it, it was already over. Trump proclaimed the day to honor his own inauguration, proclaiming a new national pride that would strengthen our bonds to each other and to our country. But the White House never released the proclamation until it arrived Monday at the Office of the Federal Register, where it was scheduled to be published Tuesday. The proclamation continues a tradition that began with President George H.W. Bush in 1989 and followed by every president since. The one-page proclamations read like mini-inaugural addresses, and can set...

    President Trump on Wednesday will order the construction of a Mexican border wall the first in a series of actions this week to crack down on immigrants, including slashing the number of refugees who can resettle in the United States and blocking Syrians and others from terror-prone nations from entering, at least temporarily. During an appearance at the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, Mr. Trump plans to sign an executive order to direct federal funds to be shifted toward the building of a wall on the southern border, a signature promise of his campaign. He has argued that doing so is vital to gaining control over the illegal flow of immigrants into the United States. Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow, Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night. ...

    Melania Trump wore a blue Ralph Lauren dress for the inauguration, and some people aren't pleased with the designer. We immediately started to get complaints about Melania Trump wearing [the label], an anonymous Ralph Lauren source told Glamour. Refinery29 Trump didn't simply buy one of Ralph Lauren's dresses. He designed the dress specifically for her. With the historic swearing-in of her husband, Donald J. Trump, as the forty-fifth President of the United States, the First Lady elect will become America’s new First Lady wearing an American designer who transformed American fashion, Ralph Lauren, her spokesperson told WWD. Opponents of this decision have rallied around the hashtag #BoycottRalphLauren. Several designers have vowed not to dress Melania Trump, including Tom ...