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SEOUL: North Korea confirmed Saturday that it was holding two American journalists and accused the women of 'illegally intruding' on its territory. The two were arrested March 17 after crossing the border with China, the Korean Central News Agency said. ...

Washington: The US government's controversial restriction on companies from hiring skilled foreign workers with non-immigrant H-1B visas will continue for only two years, the immigration department has said. As part of a stimulus package passed last ...

With concerns over the economy taking precedence in Washington, efforts to re-ignite the contentious debate over Immigration reform in Congress have been met with resistance. George sought to cast the issue in moral terms, calling it 'a matter of ...

NEW YORK -- Farzana Morshed arrived from Bangladesh three years ago without any real grasp of English. Her husband had to help her open a bank account, an interpreter was necessary when she needed medical care and she couldn't go anywhere by herself for ...

At next month's G-20 meeting, leaders from 20 countries will put their heads together to solve the world's toughest challenges. But imagine if the super-collaboration of the G-20 became a meeting of just G-1? Protectionist regulation added to the ...

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Mexico this week to discuss the drug-related violence that left 6,200 dead there last year and is now spreading across the U.S. border, she should be told in unmistakable terms: Stop the trafficking of U.S. ...

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SEOUL: North Korea confirmed yesterday that it was holding two American journalists and accused the women of 'illegally intruding' on its territory. The two were arrested March 17 after crossing the border with China, the Korean Central News Agency said. ...

President Obama is finalizing plans to move federal agents, equipment and other resources to the border with Mexico to support Mexican President Felipe Caldern's campaign against violent drug cartels, according to U.S. security officials. In Obama's ...

As the U.S. continues balancing out from thousands of layoffs, some U.S. lawmakers are demanding that H-1B visa holders be the first thing to go. Raymond Thibodeaux reports why highly-skilled workers from India are a target. An Indian technician works on ...