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Immigration Principles Could Create Problems for DACA Plan

The Trump administration is finalizing the details of a set of immigration principles that could upend efforts to come up with a permanent fix for the status of young immigrants who came to the country illegally as children.

The principles, according to people familiar with ongoing discussions, were expected to include elements of proposed legislation that would dramatically reduce legal immigration rates. Also to be pursued was an overhaul of the green card system to prevent extended family members, including siblings and adult children, from joining permanent residents in the U.S.

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Cambodian Government Moves to Dissolve Opposition Party

Cambodia's government on Friday asked the country's top court to dissolve the main opposition party, which is hanging on by a thread after its leader was arrested on treason charges, sending scores of MPs into self-exile.

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Lack of Access to Myanmar's Rakhine State 'Unacceptable', Says UN

The lack of humanitarian access granted by Myanmar's government to Rakhine state, where more than half a million Rohingya Muslims have fled violence, is "unacceptable", the UN said Friday.

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ICAN: Staunch Campaigners For an End to Nuclear Weapons

With the nuclear threat at its most acute in decades, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize, is urgently pressing to consign the bomb to history.

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Catalans in Court over 'Sedition' as Spain Tensions Escalate

Catalonia's police chief and prominent separatist leaders appeared in court Friday accused of sedition over unrest in the region's contested independence drive, escalating Spain's volatile political conflict.

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Five Killed as India Military Chopper Crashes

An Indian military helicopter crashed in a disputed area near the border with China on Friday, killing five troops and injuring a sixth, an Air Force officer said.

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With Decision Looming, Trump Blasts Iran over Nuke Deal

US President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted Iran has not acted in keeping with a deal to curb its nuclear program, days before he must decide on the future of the accord.

"They have not lived up to the spirit of the agreement," said Trump, as he huddled with military leaders ahead of perhaps the most consequential foreign policy decision of his young presidency.

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Five Dead, Seven Missing after Chinese Boat, HK Tanker Collide

Japanese coastguards said Friday they had discovered five bodies inside a Chinese fishing boat that capsized after a collision with a Hong Kong oil tanker off the western coast of Japan the previous day.

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US Customs Vows to Block Imports Made by North Korea Workers

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it is ready to block U.S. imports of seafood — as well as any other goods — produced by North Korean laborers who work in China.

An Associated Press investigation tracked salmon, squid and cod processed by North Koreans working at Chinese factories and shipped to American stores, including Walmart and ALDI. The North Korean workers found in Chinese factories aren't allowed to leave, and receive only a fraction of their pay — most goes straight to the North Korean state. This means that American consumers buying seafood labeled "Caught in the USA, Processed in China" may inadvertently be subsidizing the government of Kim Jong Un as it builds nuclear weapons, and also supporting forced labor.

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U.N. Mission to Monitor Colombia's Truce with ELN

The Security Council on Thursday tasked the U.N. mission in Colombia with monitoring a days-old ceasefire between the Bogota government and the country's last guerrilla group, the ELN.

Reached last month, the truce with the National Liberation Army went into force on Sunday, building on the historic peace deal with the FARC rebels, Colombia's oldest guerrilla group.

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