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Who are the Indian Americans and how does the current political discourse affect them?

China's top legislative body passed an act on Monday to effectively bar the recently elected lawmakers Yau Wai-ching, and Baggio Leung from taking office in Hong Kong’s legislature.

Suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 18 people and wounded more than 30 in two cities north of Baghdad on Sunday, officials said.

President Barack Obama struck back at Republican US Senator Pat Toomey for using footage of the Democrat praising Toomey's courage in a TV campaign ad in his life-or-death re-election bid in Pennsylvania.

Donald Trump has criticised President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for dragging the US into wars overseas.

The US has confirmed the death of a top Al-Qaeda leader in an air strike in northeastern Afghanistan last month, in a major blow to the terror group in the war-torn country.

Authorities say a New York City police sergeant has been fatally shot and another has been wounded in an exchange of gunfire with a suspect in the Bronx.

In a crackdown to curb its soaring immigration figures, the UK government has announced changes to its visa policy for non-EU nationals, which will affect a large number of Indians especially IT professionals.

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told his followers on Thursday there could be no retreat in a "total war" against the forces arrayed against them, as advancing soldiers battled into their northern Iraqi stronghold of Mosul.

Jihadist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on his fighters to resist as Iraqi forces were poised today to enter the city of Mosul where he declared a "caliphate" two years ago.

Nepal's foreign minister on Thursday said it was not possible to give a deadline by when a decision on the SAARC summit could be taken.

It is estimated that the operation will take until January 2017 to complete.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign officials have dismissed a poll suggesting that her Republican rival Donald Trump may have taken the lead in the final days before the November 8 election.

A week before the US presidential elections, Republican nominee Donald Trump has taken a slender lead of one percentage point against his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for the first time since May in a major national tracking poll.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said she is open to having First Lady Michelle Obama in her Cabinet if she wins the November 8 polls.

Citing flight of jobs to overseas including some to India, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has vowed to stop such a trend in the US if he is voted to power in the election in about a week from now.