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Illegal migrants entering through the southern US border will no longer be eligible for asylum under a new rule, the Trump administration has said. Announced by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, the ruling would stop asylum for those who breach any presidential restriction on entry.   The president can stop migration in the “national interest”, a statement said. ...

Photo: This image made from aerial video show officers around a Police SUV in the vicinity of a shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, early Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Thousand Oaks,Nov 8 : A sheriff says 13 people are dead, including a sheriff’s sergeant and the gunman, after a shooting inside a crowded Southern California bar late Wednesday. Ventura County Sheriff ...

Photo: In this image made from aerial video, police vehicles block an intersection in the vicinity of a shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, early Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Thousand Oaks, Nov 8 : Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Eric Buschow says the gunman is dead inside a Southern California bar where 11 people were injured late Wednesday. Authorities say a responding ...

A police spokesman says a bus crash killed 45 people in Zimbabwe, where road accidents are common due to poor roads and bad driving. Police spokesman Paul Nyathi says two long distance buses going opposite directions collided “head on” near Rusape, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) east of the capital Harare on Wednesday.   The State-run Herald newspaper reported that ...

The White House has suspended the credentials of a CNN’s chief White House correspondent hours after a testy exchange with US President Donald Trump. A White House staffer tried to grab the microphone from CNN’s Jim Acosta at the press conference on Wednesday.   But press secretary Sarah Sanders said access was removed because the reporter put “his hands on ...

A Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row has been freed from prison, her lawyer says. Some reports say Asia Bibi has boarded a plane but its destination was not known.   The Supreme Court ruling sparked protests from Islamists and the government had said it would bar her from leaving Pakistan.   Her ...

Eleven people were killed and 44 injured Wednesday when two buses collided on a road between Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott and the central city of Aleg, doctors and police said. Five passengers died in the crash and six more on their way to hospital in Aleg, a doctor said.   The 11 comprised six Mauritanians, two Ivorians, two Togolese and an ...

 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been fired by President Donald Trump. “We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service, and wish him well!” Mr Trump tweeted on Wednesday.   The president had repeatedly criticised his top law enforcement official after he recused himself from the Russia investigation dogging the White House.   Mr Trump said Mr Sessions will ...

A Bangladeshi immigrant was convicted Tuesday of setting off a pipe bomb in New York City’s busiest subway station, disputing in court that he was supporting the Islamic State group and saying he was instead motivated by anger at President Donald Trump.   The unusual outburst by Akayed Ullah, who was convicted in Manhattan federal court of supporting the terrorist ...

Somali refugee Ilhan Omar and social worker Rashida Tlaib, born to Palestinian immigrant parents, will be the first Muslim women in US Congress U.S. Democratic congressional candidate Ilhan Omar poses for a group photo with campaign volunteers in Minneapolis. Chicago, Nov 7 : US voters are poised to elect two Muslim women to Congress in the midterm election next week, ...