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EghtesadOnline: Canada’s technology community is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to snap up industry workers caught in U.S. President Donald Trump’s border crackdown, saying embracing diversity drives innovation and the economy.

EghtesadOnline: Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama administration holdover, ordered the Justice Department Monday not to defend President Donald Trump’s directive banning entry to the U.S. by citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries, questioning its legality.

EghtesadOnline: Head of the Expediency Council Center for Strategic Research, Ali-Akbar Velayati, said on Sunday that Iranians have always led a dignified life and they have no need for Trump or any other person from the US to allow them in or not.

EghtesadOnline: Silicon Valley took the lead over the weekend in corporate resistance to President Donald Trump's clampdown on immigration, financing legal opposition, criticizing the plan, as well as helping employees ensnared by his executive order.

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump’s immigration clampdown sparked a global backlash for a second day, as aides offered conflicting interpretations of its reach, allies from the U.K. to Germany condemned the move and major international companies said it threatened to strangle the free flow of workers and commerce.

EghtesadOnline: Global opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump intensified on Sunday, as world leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced his decision to limit entry from seven predominantly Muslim countries in the name of fighting terrorism.

EghtesadOnline: Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said green-card holders from the predominantly Muslim Middle East countries covered by an executive order on travel won’t be stopped from returning to the U.S., as criticism mounted over President Donald Trump’s action.

EghtesadOnline: Oscar Academy issued a statement following the reports of Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s travel ban to attend the 89th Academy Awards.

EghtesadOnline: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that Muslims entry ban to the United States will be recorded in history as a great gift to extremists and their supporters.

EghtesadOnline: Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, a co-star in the Iranian film 'The Salesman', an official nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category in the 2017 Academy Award, said Thursday that she would boycott the Oscars ceremony to protest US President Donald Trump’s executive order on the temporary ban on visas to citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries.