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He was asked about the growing concern in the Indo-Canadian community living in Canadas British Colombia about getting extortion calls and threat calls in the last two months and if the Indian government was monitoring the situation. Media reports said that law enforcement in Canada has established a task force to probe reports of extortion targeting some businesses of members of the Indo-Canadian community. The reports citing police in Canada said that nine incidents were being investigated.

In the history of ASEAN, Indonesia has been the venue for several landmark regional agreements.

Hoy se radicará en el Congreso el proyecto de Ley Orgánica que reglamenta esta nueva figura. | Bogotá | ElTiempo.com

Getting an early start today, pete buttigieg in new hampshire, elizabeth warren and cory booker, both in south carolina. and heres a look at the wider field. youve got five presidential hopefuls who plan events in iowa today, three in new hampshire, two as we mentioned in south carolina, also kamala harris, the lone campaigner in nevada. following mayor pete on a four-day bus tour is josh lederman from lebanon, new hampshire, and mike memoli is following the biden campaign, 60 miles south in c...

Posing a potential humanitarian crisis if the group reaches the fence en masse. >> 1100 people marching through mexico should be stopped at the border and sent back. we should not allow people to come into our country and break the laws. >> the law provides protection for victims of persecution not economic refugees. that is up to immigration judge because of the backlog, others arriving see a ticket to freedom and thats why it remains a magnet for care vans like this. >> jon: thorny issues. wil...

Corporate issues. and finally, theyre probably going to target womens health issues. remember, donald trump said during the campaign he wanted a pro-life judge, so the democrats say that gives them license to ask questions about that. but kate, at the end of the day, really, were taking another step in changing the way the supreme court nominees are chosen. thats a big deal. not only for the senate but for the supreme court. >> absolutely. sunlen, ariane, thank you so much. keeping a very close ...

Hear the ranking democrat on this committee, finally really hearing from her own mouth, where dianne feinstein stands on this nomination. where does the math stand right now, and is anything really likely to change before they come to a final vote? >> well, it sure looks like were heading toward the republicans having to trigger that. this judiciary committee meeting -- gorsuch is not there, right, but the members are delivering these remarks. we expect him to advance out of the committee on par...

Getting what it wanted on the world stage was because we had these weak, naive leaders who didnt know how to negotiate. he told that story in domestic policy, too, and hes quickly found, his voters have quickly found that it is actually much more complicated than that. so, i think now well see the same challenge that the president went through on the domestic change over the last few months on the international stage. if hes meeting with chinas president, hes made an awfully long list of promise...

Each other. you know, we can get caught up in the nuclear option, in the vote and all that. i mean, whats important is that neil gorsuch is going to get confirmed. and this means there will be a very strong conservative voice on the supreme court for the next 20, 30, 40 years on issues like abortion, gay rights, campaign finance. this is what really matters, i think, to the country. whether he gets on with 55 votes or 61 votes i dont think matters that much, but i think it matters a great, great...