An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced cleric Aman Abdurrahman to death on being found guilty for ordering Islamic State (IS) group-affiliated militants to carry out attacks, including the January 2016 suicide bombing at a Starbucks in Jakarta.
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Melania Trump, the first lady of the US, on Thursday made an unannounced visit to a child detention centre in Texas. She stated that she wanted to help reunite migrant children with their families.
US President Donald Trump signed an order that immigrant families will be detained together, except in cases where there are concerns about the child's welfare. It would end separation of families. The signing ceremony was held on Wednesday.
The signing of the order by President Trump has been viewed as his bowing down to international pressure and fury over the separation of undocumented parents and children. It was reported that more than 2300 children have been separated from their parents or adult relatives after they illegally crossed the border since May 5.
President Trump said that he had been swayed by images of children who have been taken from parents while they are jailed and prosecuted for illegal border-crossing. He also ordered prioritising immigration cases involving detained families.
He said: "It's about keeping families together. I did not like the sight of families being separated."
Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border saying populism is not the answer to the world's immigration problems.
Former Maldives Foreign Minister and eldest daughter of the former President of the Maldives, Dunya Maumoon has urged the release of her father from imprisonment.
