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In the first quarter of the 2019 fiscal year, the government issued initial denials to nearly 25,000 H-1B applications, a 50 percent increase over the same period last year.

Humanitarian aid nearly ground to a halt in 2018 as the United States stepped up enforcement of U.N. sanctions. Reports say Russia is considering sending 50,000 tonnes of wheat in humanitarian aid to North Korea to help it cope with natural disasters.

At least 10 people were killed in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Four people, including two children and a woman, were killed in landslide and roof collapse incident in Dir.

Nearly 250 rescue workers, medical team members, police officers and military personnel backed by eight helicopters and a dozen search dogs were deployed after the avalanche on Plaine Morte.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said sanctions against North Korea would remain in place.

Two people have been arrested and there have been "no injuries, only five people have been evacuated" from the Cantabria region.

A radical change of course was ordered after leaders realized an ageing population and declining workforce threatened to hamstring the country's future development. In 2016, a two-child policy came into effect and Chinese couples were urged to go forth an...

The Israeli Prime Minister-- who was initially quoted in Haaretz newspaper as saying that "The Poles collaborated with the Nazis" -- has been condemned in Poland for appearing to accuse all Polish people of cooperating with Germany during World War II.

President Trump warned that ISIS fighters could "permeate Europe" and called on European nations to "step up" efforts to put the prisoners on trial in their countries.

Police said they do not know the motive for the shooting, but witnesses told local media that the gunman was a disgruntled employee.

The ousted premier was shifted back to jail on February 7 after undergoing treatment for six days at the Services Hospital where a multi-disciplinary medical board examined him and unanimously opined that he needs some kind of cardiac intervention.

Pelosi, Trump's Democratic nemesis, expressed disdain for the president's upcoming emergency declaration, warning that he was doing "an end run around Congress."

Shehbaz Sharif served as the chief minister of the politically crucial Punjab province from 2013 to 2018.

Unless May can get a Brexit deal approved by the British parliament, she will have to decide whether to delay Brexit or thrust the world's fifth largest economy into chaos by leaving without a deal.

The article by Manzoor Pashteen, the leader of a movement which calls for an end what it says are enforced disappearances and extra-judicial murders of ethnic Pashtuns by security officials, was widely available online, however.

Naming Russia and China among the states that pose a threat with their increasing military might, the minister warned that while Britain tackled the extremism of Al Qaeda and Islamic State (ISIS), state-on-state competition from these countries has been o...