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500 US troops deploy in Chicago ahead of court hearing

Five hundred US troops deployed in the Chicago area on Thursday as part of president Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown, despite strenuous objections of local leaders seeking a judge’s order to block the mobilisation.

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Indians lead drop in US university visas

The United States issued nearly one-fifth fewer student visas in August following a crackdown by president Donald Trump, led by a steep drop for India which was overtaken by China as top country of origin, data showed Monday...

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Common inhalers carry heavy climate cost, study finds

The inhalers people depend on to breathe are also warming the planet, producing annual emissions equivalent to more than half a million cars in the United States alone, researchers said Monday in a major new study.

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Trump administration brands US cities war zones

The Trump administration branded Chicago a ‘war zone’ Sunday as a justification for deploying soldiers against the will of local Democratic officials, while a judge blocked the White House from sending troops to another Democrat-run city...

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Trump authorises troops to Chicago as judge blocks Portland deployment

US president Donald Trump authorised deployment of troops to Chicago after a federal agent shot an allegedly armed motorist there on Saturday, while a judge blocked the Republican leader’s attempt to send the military into Portland, another Democratic-run city.

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US court judge would-be assassin jailed for 8yrs

The would-be assassin of US Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh was sentenced Friday to just over eight years in prison—far less than the 30 years prosecutors had sought.

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Chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies

British primatologist Jane Goodall, who transformed the study of chimpanzees and became one of the world’s most revered wildlife advocates, has died at the age of 91, her institute announced Wednesday.

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Solution to Rohingya crisis lies with Myanmar: UNHCR

Commissioner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has warned that the plight of the Rohingyas will not end without bold action inside Myanmar, saying that the solution to the protracted crisis lies in Myanmar...

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Rohingya tell UN of Myanmar bloodshed, suffering

A Rohingya refugee who fled ethnic violence in Myanmar along with 7,50,000 others in 2017, spending seven years in Bangladesh, described Tuesday the endless cycle of violence and exile facing the mostly Muslim minority...