Trump administration to impose US travel ban on 'couple of countries'

Davos: US President Donald Trump said his administration was considering to add a "couple of countries" to the controversial list of states whose citizens are subjected to travel bans or severe restrictions on entry to the United States.

"We are adding a couple of countries to it. We have to be safe. Our country has to be safe," he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, adding that the names of the new countries would be announced "very shortly".

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that the administration plans to add seven countries including Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, along with others in Africa and Asia.

Trump says holding talks on 'very dramatic'reform of WTO

Trump also said talks were going on aimed at overhauling the World Trade Organization (WTO), the arbitrator of global commerce that the US leader accuses of treating Washington unfairly.

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"I've had a dispute running with them for quite a while because our country hasn't been treated fairly," Trump said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, speaking alongside WTO chief Roberto Azevedo.

"We're talking about a whole new structure for the deal... We'll have to do something," Trump told reporters.

Injuries sustained in Iran's retaliatory attack not 'serious' 

Trump said that he did not consider injuries sustained by his country's army men, after Iran reacted to General Qassem Soleimani's death, 'serious'.

“I heard that they had headaches, they had no serious injuries,” Trump said, after which a reporter questioned that doesn’t he consider potential brain injury serious?

To which the US President replied that, he had seen much worse injuries than those and that he “did not consider it a serious injury."

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When asked whether the Hong Kong riots would be discussed in the US-China Phase two trade deal Trump said: “We are already discussing that, and we would like to do something” about it.

“We are doing a trade deal and it’s a very big deal Phase one is done Phase two is being discussed” Trump said, adding that Hong Kong was also a part of the discussions.

Trump Calls Impeachment Trial a 'Hoax'

"The Senate will set the rules but what do you want", a reporter asked Trump, to which he replied: “I can live either way, and I’ll tell you what I think, it’s a hoax, that when we have here the head of the World Trade Organisation and he has to hear to this nonsense about a call that was perfected.”

“I never see them talking about the transcription, I never see them talking about the call, because there is nothing to say,” Trump said.

“You should read it, somebody should just sit there and read it and everybody’s going to say, you mean that’s an impeachable event?”

Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy would have to leave their offices on day one. It’s a hoax, the US President said.    

— Additional reporting from AFP