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Washington, Jun 23 (PTI) The temporary suspension of foreign work visas is expected to free up to 5,25,000 jobs in the US, senior officials said after President Donald Trump issued a proclamation to ban until the end of the year popular non-immigrant visas, including H-1B and L1, which benefit Indian IT professionals.

"The sum total of what these actions will do in terms of freeing up jobs over the course of the rest of 2020 is about 5,25,000 jobs," a senior administration official told reporters during a conference call on Monday.

Washington, Jun 23 (AP/PTI) President Donald Trump is tweeting that an initial trade agreement with China is still on after a top White House adviser's comments seemed to suggest it was over, spooking markets late Monday.

Trump tweeted: The China Trade Deal is fully intact. Hopefully they will continue to live up to the terms of the Agreement!"

NEW YORK, June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in the United States could surpass 150,000, President Donald Trump said.

“It could get up to 150,” Trump said in an interview with the cable television channel Spectrum News. “It could go beyond that.

“But we would have lost two million to four million lives (without mitigation),” he said.

WASHINGTON, June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump says he did not sanction Chinese officials further over the detention of Muslims in Xinjiang as he was in the “middle of a trade deal”.

Trump told the Axios news site that achieving a “great” deal meant he could not impose “additional sanctions”.

China has held about a million Uighurs and other ethnic groups in camps in Xinjiang for indoctrination and punishment but denies mistreating them.

WASHINGTON, June 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the United Nations Human Rights Council of hypocrisy after the organisation condemned racism and police brutality in the US following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.

Pompeo said the 47-member forum’s unanimous resolution on Friday on policing and race was a new low for the Council and reaffirmed the US’ decision to withdraw from the organisation in 2018.

20 June 2020; MEMO: In response to the “misleading” remarks of United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials that it rejects proposals to solve the crisis with its neighbours, Qatar announced on Friday that it: “Has always asserted its openness to unconditional dialogue to solve the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) crisis.”

WASHINGTON, June 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic in the United States have passed 45.7 million, raising fears that despite some positive signs, the economy faces a halting recovery from the downturn.

Another 1.5 million US workers filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department said, a decrease of only 58,000 from the prior week and higher overall than analysts expected.

GENEVA, June 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nearly 80 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to violence and persecution, meaning more than one percent of humanity is now living in displacement, the UN said.

A fresh report from the UN refugee agency found that by the end of last year, a record 79.5 million people were living either as refugees, asylum seekers or in internal displacement within their own countries.

WASHINGTON, June 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US Pres Donald Trump said that US police have “not been treated fairly” and appeared to defend a white officer charged with the murder of a black man.

WASHINGTON, June 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump signed into law an act that authorises sanctions against Chinese officials over the mass incarceration of Uighur Muslims.