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San Diego (AP) A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to save more than 9,000 US slots for visa lottery winners affected by the government's freeze on green cards earlier this year. But tens of thousands of other visa lottery winners will be out of luck. US District Court Judge Amit Mehta acknowledged that his order will mean only about half of the so-called diversity visas issued normally each year will be used. He said in his ruling that he gave the State Department leniency due to the coronavirus pandemic.. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/36luTc3 via Click here

Special judge SK Yadav exonerated the leaders of all the charges, citing severe lacuna in the prosecution’s case and its inability to prove evidence in accordance with the law. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3n3VNLr via Click here

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday said talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made progress on COVID19 relief legislation, and the House of Representatives postponed a vote on a $2.2 trillion Democratic coronavirus plan to allow more time for a bipartisan deal to come together. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/348iju0 via Click here

Just under 400 jobs will be affected, according to a source familiar with the matter, a number equal to around one percent of the company's employees. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3ijb1Zl via Click here

A Russian man convicted of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring and stealing the personal information of more than 100 million customers was sentenced Wednesday to more than seven years in federal prison. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2Sb2bCo via Click here

November's elections are too close for Texas to make changes now and restore a straightticket voting option that was sought by Democrats, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/34aO8T3 via Click here

Lawyers for Takahiro Shiraishi, 29, argued the charges should be reduced because the victims -- who had expressed suicidal thoughts -- gave their consent to be killed. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/30omvoh via Click here

Public opinion polls have shown strong support for Suga since he took office, prompting speculation that he could take advantage of it and call a snap election soon. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3l6sG8B via Click here

Security was tight in Hong Kong early on Thursday with police vans dotting the streets ahead of an expected China national day march by prodemocracy protesters, despite authorities banning the demonstration. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/34huWCY via Click here

Singapore will allow entry to travelers from Vietnam and Australia, excluding its coronavirus hot spot Victoria state, beginning next week. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2G7NqxY via Click here

President Donald Trump's former campaign manager is stepping away from the reelection campaign days after he was hospitalized after Florida law enforcement officials said threatened to harm himself. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3n7S1AQ via Click here

Timothy Ray Brown was considered cured of his HIV infection in 2008. In the year prior, Brown received a bone marrow transplant in Berlin, Germany, to treat a separate disease he had been diagnosed with: acute myeloid leukemia (AML). from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3cMiRcQ via Click here

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to save more than 9,000 U.S. slots for visa lottery winners affected by the governments freeze on green cards earlier this year. But tens of thousands of other visa lottery winners will be out of luck. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/36kztqY via Click here

Coronavirus LIVE Updates: US biotech firm Moderna won't seek an emergency use authorization for its coronavirus vaccine before November 25, its CEO has told the Financial Times. The news deals a blow to President Donald Trump's hopes of having an injection ready before the election to give his campaign a much-needed boost. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/33jOp70 via Click here

Trump, whose approval has taken a hit over his handling of the Covid-19 crisis, has frequently hinted a vaccine could be ready before the November 3 vote. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3ifGtHX via Click here

The United States has held off on joining Britain and Canada in imposing sanctions on Belarus in hopes the European Union can overcome an internal dispute, paving the way to coordinated U.S. and EU sanctions, four sources said on Wednesday. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3n3fTW5 via Click here

A top Democratic senator on Wednesday introduced a legislation in the US Senate to establish a forum for bilateral cooperation with India on clean energy technologies and energy transmission. Introduced by Senator Robert Menendez, a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Prioritizing Clean Energy and Climate Cooperation with India Act establishes the United States-India Clean Energy and Power Transmission Partnership (CEPTP) as the main forum for cooperation between the two nations on clean energy technologies and energy transmission. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/33hnIQh via Click here

A prosecutor said two onduty white Alabama officers brutally beat a Black man five months ago after the victim got into a roadrage incident with the wife of one of the officers. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3ifYXbd via Click here

A popular opposition politician in Venezuela urged authorities on Wednesday to delay upcoming congressional elections, saying it's the only way to create free and fair conditions for the vote. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3kTUugi via Click here

European Union leaders will try to break a stalemate over Belarus on Thursday by untangling a separate standoff with Turkey that has exposed the paralysis in the bloc's decisionmaking. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/36kmNQU via Click here

Lansing (AP) Eleven Democratic governors issued a joint statement on Wednesday defending American democracy, vowing that every valid ballot will be counted in the election after President Donald Trump sowed distrust during the first presidential debate. Trump claimed without evidence Tuesday night that mail voting is ripe for fraud, and he refused to say whether he would accept the results. He also called on his backers to scrutinize voting procedures at the polls, which critics said could cross into voter intimidation.. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3n5bx0L via Click here

A Black deathrow inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a Texas teenager in 1994 has been scheduled for execution in November, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3cM3VLO via Click here

The prevalence of COVID19 infections in England is much higher than it was at the end of August but there are signs that growth in infection rate is slowing, a study by Imperial College said on Thursday. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2SalBYa via Click here

The attacker's initial plan was to enter into the office of the magazine, possibly with the help of a hammer, and then to set it on fire with the bottles of white spirit from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/36k0afs via Click here

The revered living goddess is not leaving her temple this year. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/33dPJId via Click here

Hear from Trump and Biden in their own words how they would tackle the problems facing the United States. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2SdseJf via Click here

TikTok said the guide will give users access to information about federal, state and local candidates from BallotReady, and about how to vote in each state, from the National Association of Secretaries of State. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3kZQQ4o via Click here

The country reported 2,089 coronavirus cases on Tuesday, bringing the total to 287,421, with 9,471 fatalities, the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases said. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2GfLTp7 via Click here

There was no handshake as the two men took the stage and while this was due to Covid-19 restrictions, the absence of the traditional greeting symbolized the bitterness engulfing the country in the final countdown to November 3. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3n2lzjd via Click here

Wang's sentence comes amid fresh allegations of the mistreatment of children at a kindergarten in northern China. Eight parents claimed to have found unknown needle marks on their children's heads and bodies after they returned from Zhaojun Dingqi Kindergarten in Hohhot, in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, state media Xinhua said. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2Sd9p96 via Click here

South Korea has reported 113 new cases of COVID19, its first daily increase over 100 in five days, as the country entered a holiday break that officials fear would possibly worsen transmissions. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2GaFNGW via Click here

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden sparred Tuesday in their first of three debates, hoping to sway undecided voters planning to cast ballots by mail and in person in the final weeks leading up to the Nov. 3 election. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2SbZmkA via Click here

President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, are meeting in Cleveland on Tuesday for the first of three debates ahead of the Nov. 3 election, when Trump is seeking a second term in office. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3n0NUX7 via Click here

Babri Masjid Demolition Verdict LIVE Updates: A special CBI court will today deliver its verdict in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case involving 32 accused, including BJP veterans LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti and Vinay Katiyar after 27 years. The date was fixed on the direction of the Supreme Court that had asked for the judgment to be delivered by September 30. The Babri Masjid was demolished in December 1992 by "kar sevaks" who claimed that the mosque in Ayodhya was built on the site of an ancient Ram temple. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/36jZVkI via Click here

Washington (AP) President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are face-to-face in their first presidential debate, the most pivotal moment so far in an election that turns on a historic pandemic, racial unrest and an economy in shambles. The two are meeting Tuesday night in Cleveland. It's a key opportunity for Trump to improve his standing in a race that polls show has remained stubbornly unchanged. For Biden, the debate offers a chance to show the steadiness he says the nation needs in contrast to Trump's divisiveness.. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3cIcebp via Click here

The US House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan bill aimed at raising awareness about the alarming rate of heart disease in South Asian communities throughout the United States while investing in strategies to reverse the deadly trend. The South Asian Heart Health Awareness and Research Act was introduced by Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2Gil7N1 via Click here

President Donald Trumps nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court has close ties to a charismatic Christian religious group that holds men are divinely ordained as the "head of the family and faith. Former members of the group, called People of Praise, say it teaches that wives must submit to the will of their husbands. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/36k0evS via Click here

After more than a year of circling each other, Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met on the debate stage Tuesday night in Ohio. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3ik6HJf via Click here

US Presidential Debate 2020 LIVE Updates: Democratic challenger Joe Biden branded President Donald Trump a liar and told him to "shut up" as the pair clashed in a bad-tempered start to their first televised US Presidential debate. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/34pQk9t via Click here

Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden did not shake hands or wear masks as they entered their first White House debate on Tuesday, adhering to protocols on social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3jgnNt0 via Click here

In a letter R-S.C., Ratcliffe said that in late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian spycraft alleging that Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against Trump. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2Gql9SI via Click here

President Donald Trump on Tuesday approved a permit for a proposed rail line connecting Alaska and Canada. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3n69ido via Click here

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce parted ways Tuesday with its longtime political strategist, as the organization, once a Republican stalwart, has demonstrated a more bipartisan spending streak in the Donald Trump era. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/33cFhRm via Click here

Prosecutors in Mexicos most violent state said they have found skeletal remains that may belong to the bodies of about 15 people near the city of Irapuato. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3kYzIvR via Click here

The U.N. Security Council called on Armenia and Azerbaijan Tuesday to immediately halt fighting over the separatist territory of NagornoKarabakh and urgently resume talks without preconditions. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/36pwpd0 via Click here

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a sixday extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsins presidential election, handing Democrats a victory in their fight to deliver the key battleground state for Joe Biden in November. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3cK8fLr via Click here

The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has proposed two pieces of legislation that would clamp down on news outlets and nongovernmental organizations, which critics say is an attempt to control the opposition and the media. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3n1IQ4U via Click here

Colombia will extend a socalled selective quarantine for the duration of October, President Ivan Duque said in a nightly address on Monday, and urged citizens to avoid meeting in large groups. from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3i5Uvfi via Click here

As farmers and opposition leaders continue nationwide protests against the newly enacted farm laws, Congress president Rahul Gandhi is set to interact with the crop growers at 10am. The grand old party interim president has asked all Congress-ruled states to pass laws that would negate the 'draconian and anti-farmer' legislations of the Centre, against which several farmers under the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee have been observing 'rail roko' agitation. The protesters have been squatting on rail tracks since September 24 in Punjab's Jalandhar, Amritsar, Tanda, Mukerian and Ferozepur. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/33bnNFd via Click here

The Taliban and Pakistan are interested in the withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan more than a peace settlement, a former Pakistani diplomat has said, warning that the ongoing peace talks in Doha are headed towards failure. I am not optimistic about the outcome of the talks. The US has made all the major concessions up front. The Taliban know that the US is eager to withdraw from Afghanistan. As they see it, they are just negotiating the withdrawal of foreign forces and the restoration of the status quo ante, when they ruled Afghanistan as its Islamic Emirate, Pakistan's former Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani said on Monday. from Top India News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3ibLlhs via Click here