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A student in her final year of work at Bethlehem University was deported last night to her home in Gaza by Israeli authorities, despite appeals by the university and human-rights groups after she was arrested on Wednesday at a military checkpoint near ...

In an unusually protracted and closely watched case, the Obama administration has recommended political asylum for a Guatemalan woman fleeing horrific abuse by her husband, the strongest signal yet that the administration is open to a variety of asylum ...

Uttara Choudhury / DNA New York: The H-1B visa programme that catapults Indians into the Silicon Valley and the Wall Street is on track for leaving thousands of spots unfilled for the first time since 2003. Rising protectionist tides and the anemic US ...

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Economy Keeps Capitalism Ticking What has merica learned in the 80 years since Black Tuesday? Not enough, says rmstrong Williams. Spoonful Of 'Socialism' Makes Capitalism Work Eighty years ago this week, the freewheeling, free-market economy of the 1920s ...

CONCORD, N.H. -- A commission created to provide jobs and boost the economy in the northern reaches of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York is getting $1.5 million under a measure signed into law by President Barack Obama. The funding for the ...

The US will issue 50 million new smart passports. An Israeli smart card start-up may be one of the big winners in the US government smart document project. Sources inform ''Globes'' that information security solutions developer for smart cards SC2 Ltd. ...

US should press India to reduce troops on Pak border LAHORE: If the US wants success in Afghanistan, it should pressurise the Indians to cut down troops on Pakistans eastern border, former information minister Sherry Rehman said on Tuesday. In ...

The woeful employment picture in the US is resulting in thousands of unfilled spots in the H-1B visa program for the first time since 2003, according to Miriam Jordan writing in the Wall Street Journal. Although employers snapped up all 65,000 available ...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico --The U.S. Consulate in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez warned U.S. citizens that Mexican drug cartels were possibly planning random shooting attacks on cars Wednesday -- the same day gunmen ambushed a top state ...

MEXICO CITY: Mexican soldiers discovered a sophisticated but incomplete tunnel running under the border into the United States and arrested six people in the process of digging, the army said. The tunnel was two meters (6.5 feet high) and one meter (3.2 ...

By The Canadian Press TORONTO - The new U.S. ambassador to Canada says he's confident the two countries can find a way to protect their borders without hampering free trade. David Jacobson says protecting the United States and Canada from terrorist ...

Russia to Seattle News - From the October 26, 2009 issue of High Country News by Krista J. Kaprolos Document Actions Font Size: A A A See end of story for a complete package of refugee stories in this issue. Aleksandra Krotova perched on the edge of a ...

BALTIMORE, MDU.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Mouyad Mahmoud Darwish, age 48, formerly of Maryland, today to 15 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for making a false statement in connection with an ...

Previous Issues Comment Enforcement Hurts Labor reports that an AFL-CIO report points out that the zealous enforcement of immigration laws is resulting in violation of labor protections for US citizens. 'Workplace immigration raids during the Bush ...

SANTO DOMINGO.- An Environment Ministry study in Baoruco and Independencia provinces (southwest) identified 23 communities where 200 people make 37,000 sacks of charcoal per month, a clandestine market worth RD$89.2 million (US$2.5 million) yearly. The ...

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MEXICAN soldiers discovered a sophisticated but incomplete tunnel running under the border into the United States and arrested six people in the process of digging, the army said. The tunnel was two metres high and one metre wide, and was well lit and ...

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MEXICAN soldiers discovered a sophisticated but incomplete tunnel running under the border into the United States and arrested six people in the process of digging, the army said. The tunnel was two metres high and one metre wide, and was well lit and ...