Mathias Hammer
Foreign Policy Reporter at Semafor
Reporting on foreign policy @Semafor. Alum @TIME @Politics_Oxford, @Dept_of_POLIS 📧 mhammer (at) semafor dot com
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1 week ago |
semafor.com | Mathias Hammer
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele on Monday said he was powerless to return a wrongly deported migrant back to the US, even after the US Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration must facilitate the man’s return. The Trump administration has argued it is not required to demand that El Salvador return the Maryland resident, setting the stage for a further test of the judiciary’s power that could see the case end up back in front of the Supreme Court.
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1 week ago |
semafor.com | Mathias Hammer
Ukraine’s allies pledged a “record” $23.8 billion in military aid to Kyiv at a meeting in Brussels Friday, as a top US negotiator met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, reflecting the increasingly divergent approaches between the US and its Western allies over the war in Ukraine.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Mathias Hammer
Even after South Sudan admitted a US deportee Juba said was a Congolese citizen, the US has yet to undo its freeze on visas for South Sudanese nationals. “We have no announcements at this time regarding the resumption of visa issuances to South Sudanese passport holders,” a State Department spokesperson told Semafor. If South Sudanese citizens who had their visas revoked wish to travel to the US, “they will need to apply for a visa again,” the official said.
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1 week ago |
semafor.com | Mathias Hammer
Some of Argentina’s biggest worker unions went on strike Thursday, bringing much of the country to a halt in protest against President Javier Milei’s austerity measures. The government said the stoppage cost the economy $880 million. Trains and subways were disrupted, flights grounded, and banks closed. Milei’s government criticized the action, comparing striking workers to “wild animals” in a statement.
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2 weeks ago |
semafor.com | Mathias Hammer
Moscow has released Ksenia Karelina, a Russian-American citizen arrested for donating $50 to a US-based Ukraine charity, as part of a prisoner exchange deal with the US. In exchange, Washington freed Arthur Petrov, who had been arrested for allegedly skirting sanctions to smuggle microelectronics to Russia.
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