Trump issued measures Monday, after being sworn in as president for the second time, to suspend the arrival of asylum seekers and expel migrants in the country illegally

The Republican also defended his sweeping pardons of US Capitol rioters, including key figures from the far-right Proud Boys and Oath Keepers groups who were released from jail on Tuesday.

Netflix shares jumped more than 14 percent to top $993 in after-market trades.

Tens of thousands of Californians forced in recent years to live without a safety net

Finkelman headed Israel's southern military command, which is responsible for Gaza

He was sentenced to two life sentences for narcotics distribution and criminal enterprise

Hours after being sworn in on Monday, Trump granted pardons to more than 1,500 people who stormed the Capitol

US President Donald Trump began his first full day in office yesterday, riding a wave of executive orders signed just hours after his inauguration on everything from immigration to the environment and culture wars.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum yesterday called for “cool heads” to prevail in the face of US President Donald Trump’s announcement of severe new restrictions on migration, among other policy changes.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol yesterday attended a Constitutional Court hearing of his impeachment trial where he denied ordering military commanders to drag lawmakers out of parliament during his short-lived bid to impose martial law.

Sixteen Sudanese civilians were killed and 18 others injured when paramilitary forces shelled a famine-stricken displacement camp in El-Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur, rescuers said.

Indian security forces shot dead at least 14 Maoist rebels, including a top commander, yesterday in what the interior minister said was one of the heaviest bouts of recent fighting.

Fire-weary southern California was buffeted Monday by dangerous winds, with forecasters warning of an “extremely critical” risk in a region already staggering from the devastation of horrifying blazes.

Donald Trump unexpectedly held off tariffs on China on his first day back at the White House and did not single it out as a threat, raising the prospect of a rapprochement as both sides look to gain from each other rather than rain harm on an adversary.

Palaeontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour sardines.

Ukraine fired a wave of drones at Russia overnight, sparking a blaze at an oil depot and “explosions” at a plant producing military aircraft, its army said yesterday.

The UN’s climate chief yesterday said that the science of global warming had been “weaponised” by politics, a day after Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video call with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday in which he proposed further developing their strategic partnership just hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US president.

A fire at a ski resort hotel in Turkey’s Bolu mountains killed 66 people yesterday and forced panicked guests to jump out of windows in the middle of the night.

The Israel-Hamas ceasefire entered a third day yesterday, while US President Donald Trump said he doubted the fragile deal would hold.