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Republican Congressman Kevin Yoder from Kansas argued that the existing country-specific quota for Green card is unjust for people from countries like India and China.

"Local supply covers between 10 and 15 percent at present" of Qatar's needs, Dore told reporters at the farm, as the cows quietly munched on grass laid down next down to the large pens in which they are housed.

Christopher Wray, 50, who has been nominated by US President Donald Trump to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after he fired James Comey from this position in May.

US President Donald Trump's eldest son on Tuesday released emails showing he colluded with Russia to support his father's presidential campaign.

There were no reports of any casualties. "The first, second and third floors, plus the roof, of a building within the market are alight," the London Fire Brigade said on Twitter

The battle has left large parts of Mosul in ruins, killed thousands of civilians and displaced nearly one million people.

The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the North Korean rocket launch as requested by United States, Japan and South Korea, the UN press office said.

India, like other nuclear nations, has been closely watching the fate of Japanese-owned Westinghouse, which filed for Chapter 11 in March after an estimated $13 billion of cost overruns at two US projects

Davis made headlines this week when his book exposed the alleged role of Pakistan's former spy chief Shuja Pasha in quashing a murder trial against the CIA contractor

Two of the eight wounded were hospitalised after the incident, according to the source, who also said that worshippers leaving the mosque had not been the intended target

The five-member delegation visited Pakistan days after the US blacklisted Syed Salahuddin, the chief of Kashmiri militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, as a "global terrorist"

Qatar faces possible further sanctions by Arab states that have severed ties with Doha over allegations of links to terrorism, as a deadline to accept their demands is expected to expire on Sunday night.

Students and professors will be legally allowed to carry concealed handguns onto college campuses starting Saturday in the US state of Kansas.

South African President Jacob Zuma admitted on Friday the ruling ANC party is beset by corruption and divisions that could threaten its uninterrupted hold on power since the end of apartheid.

A superstitious 80-year-old Chinese woman delayed a flight in Shanghai after throwing coins at the engine for good luck, but will not face charges, the official media reported on Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia has reiterated that its demands on Qatar were not negotiable, as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held talks with the Qatari foreign minister on the Gulf states crisis.