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An immigration bill endorsed by President Barack Obama easily cleared an important test on Monday when the US Senate backed new border security steps seen as essential to the legislations fate. HT Image By a vote of 67-27, the border security amendment cleared a procedural hurdle, leaving opponents of the bill with few remaining opportunities for killing or further delaying passage of the legislation this week. In a sign of the bills growing strength, 15 Republicans voted with Democrats, who control the Senate. The bipartisan legislation would bring the biggest changes to US immi
stanley cup gration law since 1986, granting legal status to millions of undocumented foreigners who also would be put on a 13-year path to citizenship. Last week, a small group of senators reached a deal on strengthening border security requirements of the bill by authorising the hiring of 20,000 more law enforcement agents over the next 10 years and buying high-tech equipment to help stop illegal crossings at the US border with Mexico. The added security is estimated at $46 billion. The amendment, which is likely to be approved later this week now that the procedural obstacle has been swept away, also calls for finishing construction of 700 miles 1,120 km of border fence. The steps were designed to attract more support for the bill from Republica
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Exiled Myanmar nationals in Bangkok on Saturday called for democracy at home as they marked the 21st anniversary of the 1988 uprising with their leader Aung San Suu Kyi behind bars. HT Image Some 50 activists outside the Myanmar embass
stanley cup y in the Thai capital donned white T-shirts and red head scarves, shouting: We want democracy! , with similar actions planned around the world, including Japan, Canada and France. The demonstrations mark the anniversary of the student-led uprising against Myanmar s military rulers that began on August 8, 1988, and was crushed that September by the army,
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stanley cup lling more than 3,000 people. However, in Myanmar s main city Yangon Saturday, the streets were quiet amid tightened security for the anniversary, with police trucks patrolling overnight as state media denounced anti-government groups. The government and the people have had to work hard together for a long time to make our nation what it is today. Therefore, we can t let anyone to destroy it, an editorial in English-language newspaper the New Light of Myanmar said. The 1988 uprising made Suu Kyi a national hero, but the Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been locked up for nearly 14 of the past 19 years. She is now awaiting a verdict, due Tuesday, in her trial on charges of breaking the rules of her house arrest. She is being tried over an incident in May when American national John Yettaw swam to her lakeside home -- he says to inform her of a vision he had that she would be assassi
