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Travelers From These 36 Countries May Soon Be Banned From Entering the U.S.
Fodors Travel Guide
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June 16, 2025
And other travel news you may have missed. This week in travel, we’ve uncovered several stories that might have flown under your radar. Among them: locals fire squirt guns at tourists (again); a woman has an epic meltdown in Milan over excess...
Travel ban stays as High Court refuses Grace Road’s Daniel Kim to go to Nauru
The Fiji Times
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June 16, 2025
The Lautoka High Court last week refused to uplift a travel ban on Grace Road President, Daniel Kim. He had filed an application for bail variation on June 6 to allow him to travel to Nauru for a meeting with the country’s President, David W.R...
Could Anything Be More Bigoted Than Trump’s Travel Bans?
The American Prospect
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June 23, 2025
In her early nineties, my mother had emergency surgery to remove her gallbladder, which had somehow managed to flip over and begun to rot. The physician who performed the surgery—from which she recovered completely—was an Iranian immigrant. I was...
I'm the First Person to Travel to Every Country in the World Without Ever Getting on a Plane–How I Did It
Travel + Leisure
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For Travel + Leisure’s column Traveling As, we’re talking to travelers about what it’s like to explore the world through their unique perspectives. We chatted with Thor Pedersen of Denmark, who spent nearly a decade on a single journey to 203...
I'm the first person to travel to every country in the world without getting on a plane — how I did it
AOL
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Clockwise from right: Selena Wright; Mike Douglas; Pavel Toropov Clockwise from right: Thor Pedersen in New Zealand, 2022; Sri Lanka in 2023 and Hong Kong in 2020.For Travel + Leisure’s column Traveling As, we’re talking to travelers about what...
US warns of expanded travel ban that could affect key African markets
ICEF Monitor
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June 19, 2025
"The United States is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced by the Trump administration early this month," reports The Washington Post. The...
E.U. Makes It Easier To Tighten Visa-Free Travel In Schengen Area
Forbes
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Schengen Visa and Passportgetty The European Parliament and Council have agreed on a provisional new system to restrict visa-free travel in the Schengen zone of free movement. With citizens of 61 non-EU countries currently enjoying visa-free...
US threatens 36 more countries with travel bans — mapped
The Times
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The Trump administration has given dozens of countries an ultimatum to improve the vetting of their travellers to the US or risk being blacklisted. The State Department identified 36 countries in danger of joining the 12 already subject to US...
Anthony Albanese hosts Fijian prime minister at Wallabies test in Newcastle
The West Australian
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July 6, 2025
Anthony Albanese focused on diplomacy at home on Sunday, hosting Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in Newcastle for a Wallabies Test match against Fiji. Australia edged out Fiji 21-18 in front of a lively crowd at McDonald Jones Stadium....
EU Tightens Visa Rules: Israeli Travelers Could Face New Restrictions
To Vima
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June 18, 2025
Israeli travelers may be among the first to be affected by new EU visa rules which allow the suspension of visa-free travel in cases of “severe international human rights or humanitarian law” violations. Approved on Tuesday by both the European...
Australian neighbours in possible new 36-nation US travel ban, but America-bound Aussie travel grows
KARRYON
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June 16, 2025
The memo, seen by The Washington Post, shows the new restrictions would apply to 25 African nations, including Egypt, as well as numerous countries in the Caribbean and Central Asia. Multiple Pacific Island nations also feature in the list,...
Trump Administration May Possibly Add 36 Countries To Latest Travel Ban List
Travel Noire
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June 18, 2025
The Trump administration may subject 36 countries to full or partial travel bans, which would extend the list of 19 countries it restricted earlier this month. The Washington Post relayed a list of the allegedly proposed 36 countries. The outlet...
EU possibly to cancel visa-free travel for Israelis
MENAFN
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June 19, 2025
(MENAFN) The European Union may suspend Israel’s visa-free access to the Schengen zone under newly revised rules approved by EU lawmakers, Euronews reported on Wednesday. The development comes in the wake of Israel’s recent airstrikes on Iran,...
Trump gives 36 countries Wednesday deadline to avoid travel ban
FOX 10 Phoenix - Arizona
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FILE-President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House on April 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) President Donald Trump has given 36 countries a Wednesday deadline to commit to improve its...
UAE residents who bought CBI passport face uncertainty
St. Vincent Times
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July 5, 2025
Thousands of UAE residents who acquired Citizenship by Investment (CBI) passports from countries like Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Cambodia, and Egypt are staring at a storm they didn’t see coming. Some had invested their life...
Ghanaian destinies hang in the balance as US considers travel clampdown
Joy FM
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June 18, 2025
A cloud of uncertainty looms over Ghana as the United States considers expanding its travel ban to include more countries. This possible move—intended primarily to bolster American national security and address perceived deficiencies in...
Revealed: Analyst details motivation for Trump’s sprawling travel bans
AlterNet
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June 18, 2025
Although Donald Trump enacted a travel ban during his first presidency, he is taking it much further this time. Trump is now imposing either total travel bans or travel restrictions on 19 different countries. And according to reporting in The New...
Business class on this plane is so bad, even the crew hates it
The Sydney Morning Herald
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July 4, 2025
Low rent I can empathise with your reader who felt deceived by Europcar at London Heathrow (Traveller Letters, June 21), as the same disreputable action happened to us on a trip to the UK. The friendly check-in person offered us a free upgrade...
'We're not a danger to the US': Pacific Islanders respond to proposed travel ban
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 18, 2025
Utah-based immigration lawyer Laura Lui doesn't see how Tonga — with a population of 100,000 — could be a threat to the United States. So she was baffled to see her home country on a list of 36 nations the Trump administration is reportedly...
US demands response from 36 countries - including Angola - to avoid travel restrictions on their citizens
Ver Angola
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A diplomatic cable sent over the weekend by the State Department instructs embassies and consulates in 36 countries to assess their hosts’ willingness by Wednesday to improve their citizens’ travel documentation and take steps to address the...