A United States federal judge in Hawaii has issued an emergency temporary halt to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban, just a day before it was set to go into effect.
The decision means that travellers from the six Muslim-majority countries covered by the ban will still be able to travel to the US.
US District Judge Derrick Watson put an emergency stop to the new order in response to a lawsuit filed by the state of Hawaii, which argued the order discriminated against Muslims in violation of the constitution.
The new ban, signed by the President on March 6, had aimed to overcome legal problems with a January executive order that caused chaos at airports and sparked mass protests before a Washington judge stopped its enforcement in February.
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