White House says Colombia agreed to take deported migrants after Trump tariff showdown
Bogota (Colombia), Jan 27 (AP): The White House claimed victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the US on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports and other sanctions on the longtime US partner.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a late Sunday statement that the “Government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump's terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on US military aircraft, without limitation or delay.”
Leavitt said the tariff orders - which would have put in place 25% tariffs on all Colombian incoming goods, and then raised to 50% in one week - will be “held in reserve, and not signed." But Leavitt said Trump would maintain visa restrictions on Colombian officials and enhanced customs inspections of goods from the country, “until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned.”
There was no immediate reaction from the Colombian government.
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3 hurt as fire breaks out in Darul Uloom building in Srinagar
Srinagar (PTI): Two civilians and a fireman were injured after a fire broke out in a seminary here, officials said.
The fire broke out in a four-storey building of the Darul Uloom (an Islamic seminary) in the Hyderpora locality here in the evening, they said.
The officials said the attic and the fourth storey of the L-shaped building were engulfed in flames.
A fire-fighting operation was launched and after sustained efforts of the Fire and Emergency Services teams, the blaze was brought under control, the officials said.
Two civilians and a fireman were injured in the incident, they said, adding that the cause of the fire and the extent of damage to the property are yet to be ascertained.
