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WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Department plans to increase H-1B visa fee to $103,265, according to a notice posted in the Federal Register on Monday. (Reporting by Daphne Psale...

By David Lawder and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration on Monday announced a possible expansion of sanctions on countries doing business with Iran as ...

By Saurabh Sharma and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to attend next month's BRICS summit in New Delhi with a large delegation, three sources said, in ...

By Julia Payne BRUSSELS, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Art thieves in Europe are committing more violent robberies focusing on gold and jewels, and specialist gangs have been replaced by ad-hoc opportunists recr...

LUSAKA, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Zambian authorities closed the country's top courts on Monday, blocking access to the premises on the last day that the opposition could file a challenge to this month's dis...

By Tarek Amara TUNIS, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A hospital in the southern Tunisian city of Ben Guerdane has received at least 19 bodies of migrants recovered from the sea over the past two days, the head of...

DAKAR, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A mission to observe implementation of a ceasefire between Congolese forces and Rwandan-backed rebels began on Monday in eastern Congo, the first field deployment under a mon...

By Miranda Murray QUEDLINBURG, Germany, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The sound of thousands of engines filled the festival grounds of the medieval German village of Quedlinburg on Sunday as Ulrich Siegmund, the...

PARIS, Aug 24 (Reuters) - French far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon is seen as the most likely rival to far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in next year's presidential run-off, a Monday poll showed, und...

SAO PAULO, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro are in a technical tie in a potential runoff ahead of October's presidential electio...