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With an all-American Stetson cowboy hat on his head, President Trump launched ‘Made in America’ week at the White House.  He highlighted goods manufactured in the 50 US states, including Hawaiian rum and a firetruck from Wisconsin. However, for some the launch was a little overshadowed by the fact that many Trump family business products are made in foreign factories.

Far right European ‘hipsters’ are taking matters into their own hands to stem the influx of refugees into Europe. The identitarian group — you’ll have to read the story to find out what that means — has a history of violent direct action and has chartered a 422-ton ship with the intention of intercepting and turning back any migrants it finds in the waters off Libya.

VIDEO: Iraqi officials want to close all camps — that are now crowded with people who fled the fighting in Mosul — by the end of the year. But at one camp in Iraqi Kurdistan, VOA’s Persian Service learns not everyone is in a rush to go home.

China is helping itself to millions of fish off the West African coast. Every day, foreign fishing vessels prowl the waters off West Africa and sell those catches to China, Europe, and even the U.S., satisfying a global demand for seafood. But that makes things tough for local fishermen and costs the West African economy billions in revenue and lost jobs.

VIDEO: Not only is Thailand offering citizenship to the children of migrants and displaced people who were born in the country, but it’s also making the paperwork easier. Thousands of Myanmar and Cambodia migrants who fled conflicts in their homeland face hardships in Thailand without proper work documents. But the future now looks more promising for their children. In Thailand, VOA speaks with young people about finally being legal in the only country most of them have every known.