LOS ANGELES, March 29 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday extended his previous nationwide order blocking the implementation of President Donald Trump's revised travel ban while the lawsuit continues.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson's original order halting the travel ban was issued on March 15, hours before the ban was set to go into effect, in the form of a nationwide temporary restraining order.
Court papers show that Watson granted a motion on Wednesday to turn his temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction, extending his order against the ban while the case moves forward.
The move sets the stage for the Department of Justice to appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the same court that upheld a national halt to Trump's first travel ban last month after a Seattle federal judge ruled against it.
Hawaii has become the first state in the United States to file a lawsuit against Trump's revised travel ban. Judge Watson blocked provisions of the March 6 executive order of Trump that would have frozen the refugee program for 120 days and stopped citizens of six Muslim countries from entering the United States.
The revised travel ban will bar entry of citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen for 90 days.
The new order lowered the named nations from seven to six, among other changes. Iraq, which was included in the first ban, has been taken off the list.
The state of Hawaii sued to stop the travel ban, arguing the president's policy violates the Constitution and the travel ban would harm its economy because of the loss of tourism and the ability to recruit international students.
Trump reacted to Watson's March 15 restraining order by calling the ruling "an unprecedented judicial overreach", pledging to take the legal fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
HARARE Khris Middleton Jersey , Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Several loud explosions were heard in central Harare early Wednesday, two days after the military threatened to "step in" to end the country's political crisis, but Zimbabwean military officers denied that they were launching a coup.
Zimbabwean military officers announced on state TV early Wednesday that they were not taking over the government Giannis Antetokounmpo Jersey , but "targeting criminals around" President Robert Mugabe.
Mugabe and his family were safe and their security was guaranteed, the officers read the statement live on state TV, saying they were accomplishing "their mission".
According to reports Jabari Parker Jersey , soldiers were deployed across the Zimbabwe capital and seized the state broadcaster, after Mugabe's ruling party accused the chief of the military of treason.
Gunfire was heard near Mugabe's private residence, the reports said.
Mugabe last week fired Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa Eric Bledsoe Jersey , his political ally for more than 40 years, on allegations of disloyalty and deceit.
Zimbabwean army commander Constantino Chiwenga issued a statement on Monday, saying purges against senior ruling party officials should end "forthwith."
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Chiwenga's statement was outrageous and calculated to disturb national peace and stability, party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo said in a statement.
by Wang Xiuqiong
BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- There's no need to worry that an expected launch of work on a free trade zone would complicate the trade terrain in the Asia-Pacific. Instead Vin Baker Bucks Jersey , it would raise hopes for a solution of the current "spaghetti bowl" dilemma.
Attention has been heightening on the prospects of establishing the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) as a series of high-profile Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings opened here this week. One of the meeting's outcomes, China expects, could be the start of the FTAAP process.
Those who see the move as China's challenge to the under-negotiation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and anticipate diplomatic wrestling over it will find their speculations unfounded and unnecessary.
A free trade area has long been a common vision for APEC economies Tony Snell Bucks Jersey , not a product of China's own wishful thinking.
The FTAAP is not a new idea, nor was it first brought onto the table by China. China suggested feasibility study on the FTAAP in February this year, but it was first proposed in 2004 and written into the declaration of the APEC leaders' meeting in 2006.
An annual meeting of APEC trade ministers in May reiterated the resolution to draft a roadmap for the FTAAP to be finalized within this year.
The idea gained traction as the region's mushrooming free trade pacts resulted in growing complexity and costs for exporters and importers. As a host of the 2014 APEC meetings Thon Maker Bucks Jersey , China's determination to push for concrete steps on the FTAAP only showcased its efforts to shoulder more international responsibility, since the country has been repeatedly urged to do so.
The impasse in the Doha round of global multilateral trade talks gave impetus to a proliferation of smaller free trade agreements (FTAs) in the region. They brought some benefits but also unwanted troubles: different tariff schemes, complicated rules of origin Ray Allen Bucks Jersey , trade discrimination over countries excluded from the FTAs, to list a few.
Against that backdrop, APEC economies' enthusiasm to integrate the varying and overlapping FTAs is understandable.
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