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US judge skeptical of challenge to $100,000 H-1B visa fee

 A federal judge on Friday said US President Donald Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly-skilled foreign workers seems to fall under his broad powers to regulate immigration, casting doubt on a...

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Trump delivers longest-ever Congress speech

U.S. President Donald Trump's reacts during a joint session of Congress

China, Canada retaliate to Trump tariff war

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC. — AFP

On Mexico’s once-packed border, few migrants remain

Jordan García, bottom right, a former mining worker from Venezuela, with his wife and their three daughters at Albergue Vida, a migrants shelter in Ciudad Juárez, March 1, 2025. (Alejandro Cegarra/The New York Times)

He stole $400,000 in diamonds and swapped them for look-alikes

The Manhattan Criminal Courthouse in New York, on May 31, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)

MS retires Skype, web call pioneer, in favour of Teams

Starting in May 2025, Skype will no longer be available

Compromise with Russia: Trump to Ukraine President Zelensky

US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Friday. — AFP

Police probing 'suspicious' deaths of Hollywood giants

Reporters gather outside the entrance to the gated community where actor Gene Hackman was found dead on Wednesday with his wife and dog, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S., February 27, 2025. REUTERS/Andrew Hay

Opinion- How can Europe talk to Trump? flatter, then gently resist.

President Emmanuel Macron of France, left, and President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Monday, Feb, 24, 2025. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Macron meets Trump as transatlantic alliance shaken

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the White House in Washington, DC. — AFP

Casualties as mall food court roof collapses in Peru

Aerial view of the roof of a shopping mall after collapsing in Trujillo, Peru

On $15 a month, Venezuela's teachers live hand to mouth

A teacher browses clothes inside a second-hand run by the Venezuelan Teachers' Federation (FVM) in Caracas

Trump urges Musk to be 'more aggressive' in cuts

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. — Reuters file photo

Bond franchise shifts to Amazon

A pedestrian walks past a James Bond 007 logo above the entrance to Burlington Arcade in London. AFP file photo

12 university students dead in Brazil bus crash

Forty-one people died in a bus crash in Brazil’s worst highway accident last December.

Delta plane flips upside down on landing at Toronto airport

The wreckage of a Delta Air Lines-operated CRJ900 aircraft lays on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport. — Reuters
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