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US helping Egypt build border fence on Gaza frontier: American officials have agreed to a $23 million aid package from which most will go towards purchasing technology to prevent the fence from being perforated and for locating underground smuggling ...

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Borders Group Inc., the second-largest U.S. bookstore chain, put itself up for sale yesterday and halted its dividend. Chief executive officer George Jones said the retailer was unable to borrow money to remodel stores and pay for new technology. Shares ...

MOSCOW: Russia has charged two brothers with dual Russian-U.S. citizenship on charges of gathering secret information aimed at giving foreign oil companies a competitive advantage, the Federal Security Service said Thursday. The service said one of the ...

March 20, from AP Financial News: NEW YORK (AP) News that Borders Inc. might have to sell itself sent the bookseller's shares to a new low on Thursday, while Barnes & Noble Inc. shares rose on a strong profit forecast. NEW YORK (AP) Shares of several ...

Expecting another avalanche of petitions for H-1B temporary worker visas when the window for next year's allotment opens April 1, U.S. immigration officials have adopted new rules designed to address complaints that some companies are gaming the system. ...

Some politicians are responsible for stoking the myth that immigrants, especially Mexicans, are causing crime waves according to a new study by Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson. His study shows that rising immigration, especially from Mexico, does not ...

NEW DELHI: With less than two weeks to go before the start of the H-1B visa rush, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) released rules today to prevent applicants from trying to unfairly boost their odds in the expected visa lottery. ...

- Peter Sprigg, vice president of policy at the Family Research Council, discussed the group's opposition to the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) saying 'I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the ...

DETROIT - Borders Group Inc., America's second-largest bookseller, said Thursday it may put itself up for sale and has lined up $42.5 million in financing to help the chain continue operations. Borders, which has lost market share to online retailers and ...

Our Bureau New Delhi, March 20 With barely ten days to go for the start of H-1B visa rush, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today introduced new rules prohibiting companies from filing multiple H-1B visa applications for the same ...

MOSCOW, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Federal Security Service said its agents have detained two persons with dual Russian-U.S. citizenship as they were receiving 'confidential information which constituted a commercial secret.' The FSB identified the ...

The US high-street chain Borders is facing a cash crunch that may force it to put itself up for sale as music sales migrate to the internet and discount retailers muscle in on the books market. Borders said today that it was suffering a funding crisis as ...

Russian news agencies say two Russians who also hold US citizenship and have connections to the British Council and a British joint-venture oil company have been arrested. The reports Thursday cite the Federal Security Service, the main successor to the ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - State police have charged a Stratford driving school owner with helping illegal immigrants get Connecticut drivers' licenses by forging documents submitted to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Henry Kruszewski, owner of Express ...

Peter Sprigg, vice president of policy at the Family Research Council, in talking about the group's opposition to the Uniting American Families Act, said, among other nuggets of homophobia, 'I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United ...

Washington: The U.S. has barred employers from filing more than one H-1B visa application for a worker in a fiscal year. To ensure a fair and orderly distribution of available H-1B visas, USCIS will deny or revoke multiple petitions filed by an employer ...

While the debate over Indian outsourcing firms making the most of H-1B visas rages on, Indian firms' share of the temporary worker visas has actually come down by over 8,500. Leading Indian IT companies Infosys, Wipro, TCS and Satyam received fewer H-1B ...

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Meanwhile, the Programmers Guild wants visas based on salaries that firms will pay Share Top Stories March 19, 2008 (Computerworld) WASHINGTON -- With less than two weeks to go before the start of the H-1B visa rush, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ...