Siddharth Jaganath wanted to return to India after earning his master's degree at Texas' Southern Methodist University. Instead, he built a new life in the US over a decade, becoming a manager at a communications technology company and starting a family in the Dallas suburb of Plano.
	"You start growing your roots and eventually end up staying here," the 37-year-old said.
	His path is an increasingly common one: Immigrants from China and India, many with student or work visas, have overtaken Mexicans as the largest groups coming into the US, according to US Census Bureau research released in May.
	The shift has been building for more than a decade and experts say it's bringing more highly skilled immigrants here. And some Republican presidential candidates have proposed a heavier focus on employment-based migration, which could accelerate traditionally slow changes to the country's ever-evolving face of immigration.
	Mexicans still dominate the overall composition of immigrants in the 

Immigration shift shows India, China outpacing Mexico

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An international flight from Las Vegas to Frankfurt, Germany, made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport escorted by two F-16 fighter jets Friday night after what officials called a "disturbance on the plane."
	A pilot on the Condor Airlines Boeing 767 reported an in-flight emergency, and the fighter jets were sent as a precaution, said Air Force Capt. Ashleigh A. Peck, a spokeswoman for North American Aerospace Defense. The plane landed safely, and one person was taken off the plane.
	"All passengers are fine," airport spokesman Heath Montgomery said.
	The FBI told ABC News that the incident was a "misunderstanding," and nobody was arrested or taken into custody, but no other details were available.
	Carsten Stepanowicz (ste-PAN'-o-wits), a spokesman for the airline in Germany, said the pilot requested help because of an unruly passenger on board.
	"It was not possible to go on with the flight, so the pilot decided to land in Denver," he said. He said he could not ...

Flight from Vegas to Germany diverted over unruly passenger

Authorities are still pursuing a suspect in the death of a uniformed sheriff's deputy who was shot several times while filling up his patrol car at a suburban Houston gas station, they said Saturday afternoon during a strongly worded news conference.
	Deputy Darren Goforth, 47, was pumping gas about 8:30 p.M. Friday when a man approached him from behind and fired multiple shots. Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman said that surveillance video shows there were people at the gas station and asked that they reach out with any information that could lead to the man who ambushed Goforth.
	Hickman and District Attorney Devon Anderson both said the ambush was unsettling, especially given the recent climate of tension between minorities and law enforcement.
	"We've heard black lives matter, all lives matter. Well, cops' lives matter, too," Hickman said.
	Anderson said that there are bad individuals in every field, but that "there should not be open warfare on law enforcement officers."
	Earlier 

Deputy ambushed, killed at gas station in Houston suburb

The Pakistani military says its latest airstrikes in a troubled tribal region near Afghanistan have killed 14 suspected militants.
	The military says in a statement that 14 "terrorists" were killed in today's airstrike in Shawal, a town in North Waziristan where the army launched a ground operation this month to eliminate local and foreign insurgents.
	The military gave no details and did not elaborate on the nationalities or identities of the slain men.
	The Pakistani army has been carrying out a major military operation in North Waziristan since June 2014 and it says security forces have cleared more than 90 per cent of the region and killed more than 3,000 militants. The army has lost nearly 300 soldiers in the region in the past year.

Pakistan army kills 14 suspected militants near Afghanistan

The Nigerian air force says one of its aircraft has crashed into a residential house in Kaduna state killing all four crew and three passengers.
	Commodore Dele Alonge, air force spokesman, said the Dornier-228 aircraft had taken off from Kaduna Military Airfield Saturday morning bound for the country's capital, Abuja, when it crashed in a house in the Ribadu area.
	Alonge said bodies of those in the plane have been recovered and firefighters are at the crash site trying to prevent the fire from spreading.
	Earlier this month, a helicopter belonging to Bristow, a Houston, Texas-based firm that charters helicopters to oil and gas rigs, traveling from an oil rig crashed into a lagoon in Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, killing four people.

Officials: 7 die in Nigeria air force plane crash

A veteran Mozambican journalist, known for his crime reporting, was gunned down on the streets of the capital.
	Paulo Machava was shot by unknown assailants on Friday, while on his morning jog in Maputo.
	"We don't know the motives for the killing but we will work hard to trace the killers," police spokesman Orlando Modumane told The Associated Press on Saturday.
	A private security guard found Machava's body lying in a pool of blood. He said he heard four gunshots before seeing young men drive away.
	"They're professionals," the guard told journalists, saying they moved quickly, using AK-47 assault rifles. Machava's brother Januario told reporters he believed the shooters trailed their victim, studying his daily routine.
	Machava once hosted a radio show covering crime on the state-run Radio Mozambique. He then reported for a weekly newspaper, covering the assassination of well-known journalist Carlos Cardoso in 2000. He published a series of reports on the man who was later found ...

Mozambican journalist, known for crime reporting, killed

President Hassan Rouhani said today he opposes a parliamentary vote on the landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers because terms of the agreement would turn into legal obligations if passed by lawmakers.
	Rouhani told a news conference that the deal was a political understanding reached with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, not a pact requiring parliamentary approval. The deal also says Iran would implement the terms voluntarily, he said.
	The historic deal calls for limiting Iran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting economic sanctions.
	"If the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is sent to (and passed by) parliament, it will create an obligation for the government . It will mean the president, who has not signed it so far, will have to sign it," Rouhani said. "Why should we place an unnecessary legal restriction on the Iranian people?" A special committee of parliament has already begun studying the deal before putting it to a vote. But .

Iran president opposes parliament vote on nuclear deal

Rescue workers have recovered 12 more bodies off the Libyan coast, raising the death toll from the latest disaster for migrants trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean to 117, Libyan authorities said today.
	Thus far 198 people were rescued and the search is ongoing for missing passengers from two boats that capsized Thursday off the western coastal city of Zuwara with about 500 migrants onboard, the rescue team said in a statement.
	Human smuggling of people fleeing conflicts and poverty in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa from Libya has spiked since the 2011 overthrow and killing of longtime dictator Moammer Gadhafi, after which the oil-rich north African country plunged into chaos.
	One more Libyan accused of organising the dangerous crossing was arrested yesterday, bringing the total to three, a security official said.
	Later yesterday, a protest broke out in the coastal city, with residents carrying signs in English, Arabic and Berber, urging people not to rent 

Libya migrant disaster death toll rises to 117

Thousands of people began gathering today amid tight security in downtown Beirut, ahead of a major rally to protest government corruption and the country's dysfunctional political system.
	At least two or three armoured personnel carriers were deployed around the prime minister's office. A man over a megaphone chanted: "Declare it a revolution!"
	The protest is expected to be the largest of the demonstrations that began last week over garbage piling up in the streets of Beirut, following the closure of a main landfill. But the government's failure to resolve the crisis has evolved into wider protests against a political class that has dominated Lebanon since the end of the country's civil war in 1990.
	Two protests last weekend outside the prime minister's office drew up to 20,000 people and were generally peaceful. But the rallies turned violent when security forces used batons, tear gas and water cannons to disperse groups of people who tried to break the security cordon around the .

Thousands of Lebanese protesters gather in Beirut

Islamic State militants detained at least 70 people in a remote western Iraqi town today following a rare street demonstration protesting the extremist group's execution of a local resident, security officials said.
	They said the protest by hundreds of residents in Rutbah, in Anbar province, was triggered by the execution earlier on Saturday of Munir al-Kobeisi, a civil servant, for killing a member of the extremist group. The killing was part of a long-running blood feud between two local clans.
	Eid Amash, a spokesman for Anbar's provincial government, confirmed al-Kobeisi's execution and the subsequent protest. Officials said they did not know the whereabouts of the detained residents.
	Elsewhere in Anbar, much of which is under IS control, a roadside bomb on Saturday hit a border guard convoy making its way to the border crossing of Trebil on the Jordanian border, security officials said.
	Five officers were killed in the attack, which bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State ...

IS detains dozens in Iraqi town after rare street protest

Security officials say a roadside bomb targeting a border guard convoy has killed five officers.
	The officials say today's blast hit the convoy, headed to the border with Jordan in western Iraq, near the border post of Trebil.
	Officials also say a pair of roadside bombs killed five people and injured 19 south and west of Baghdad. Also in the capital, assailants using pistols fitted with silencers killed two people in the Jihad neighbourhood in western Baghdad before they fled in a car. Other details were not immediately available.
	The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media.

Roadside bomb kills 5 border officers in western Iraq

Gunbattles between rival Taliban factions left at least five dead in southern Afghanistan, a top official with the insurgent group said today as its members meet in Pakistan to resolve a leadership crisis following the death of its former leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
	It was the first confirmed report of deadly Taliban infighting after an announcement last month that Mullah Omar had been dead for more than two years. Mullah Omar's family objected after his former deputy, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, was named the new Taliban leader and rivalries have spilled into violence, said Ahmad Rabbani, head of a committee trying to reunify the group.
	Rabbani spoke from the Pakistani city of Quetta, where hundreds of Taliban loyalists are meeting in an effort to resolve the split.
	The five deaths came after Taliban commander Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, loyal to Mullah Omar's family, led hundreds of gunmen against Mansoor supporters in the southern Afghan province of Zabul, where the Taliban have long ..

Gunbattles between rival Taliban factions leave 5 dead

Officials and media reports say three attacks or clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels have killed five people and injured 24 others in southeast Turkey.
	The Tunceli governor's office said today the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, attacked government buildings in the province with rocket-propelled grenades, triggering a clash that killed a police officer and two militants.
	The state-run Anadolu Agency said the rebels also fired at police outside a hospital in nearby Sanliurfa province late yesterday, killing two officers.
	Meanwhile, 10 policemen and 14 civilians were injured when the rebels detonated an improvised explosive device as a police bus passed by in Mardin province, Anadolu reported. Renewed fighting with the PKK has killed dozens of people since July, mostly police and soldiers.

5 killed, 24 injured in attacks in southeast Turkey

At least 38 girls and young women were killed in a crash while travelling to a famous traditional festival in Swaziland, a rights group said today.
	About 20 others were injured when the truck they were in collided with another vehicle yesterday, the Swaziland Solidarity Network said in a statement. The young women and girls were allegedly travelling on the back of an open truck, the rights group said.
	Police in Swaziland, a small mountainous country of 1.4 million people bordering northeastern South Africa and Mozambique, discouraged reporting on the accident, said the group. Photographers were prevented from taking pictures at the scene, said a Swazi journalist who insisted on anonymity for security reasons.
	A high-ranking police officer contacted by The Associated Press refused to comment, saying the matter was related to the "highest authority," and so no details could be disclosed to the media.
	"You don't hide a death," said Lucky Lukhele, spokesman for the Swaziland ...

38 girls, young women killed in Swaziland crash, says group

An Egyptian court today sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison, the last twist in a long-running trial criticised worldwide by press freedom advocates and human rights activists.
	The case against Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy, Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed embroiled their journalism into the wider conflict between Egypt and Qatar following the 2013 military ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
	It wasn't immediately clear how the sentence would affect the three men. Greste, deported in February, spoke to Al-Jazeera from Sydney and criticised the verdict. Mostefa Souag, Al-Jazeera English acting director-general, also criticised the verdict, saying it "'defies logic and common sense."
	"The whole case has been heavily politicised and has not been conducted in a free and fair manner," Souag said in a statement.
	"There is no evidence proving that our colleagues in any way fabricated news or aided and .

Egypt sentences 3 Al-Jazeera reporters to 3 years in prison

The Associated Press has sued the US Department of Justice over the FBI's failure to provide public records related to the creation of a fake news story used to plant surveillance software on a suspect's computer.
	AP joined with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to file the lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Columbia.
	At issue is a 2014 Freedom of Information request seeking documents related to the FBI's decision to send a web link to the fake article to a 15-year-old boy suspected of making bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Washington.
	The link enabled the FBI to infect the suspect's computer with software that revealed its location and Internet address.
	AP strongly objected to the ruse, which was uncovered last year in documents obtained through a separate FOIA request made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
	"The FBI both misappropriated the trusted name of The Associated Press and created a situation where our credibility could have .

AP sues over access to FBI records involving fake news story

A sheriff's deputy in uniform has died after he was fatally shot while filling up his patrol car at a suburban Houston gas station.
	Harris County Sheriff's Office spokesman Ryan Sullivan says the deputy was pumping gas into his vehicle last night when a man approached him from behind and fired multiple shots. Once the deputy fell to the ground, the suspect fired more shots.
	Police said they have a description of the male suspect, who was driving a red or maroon Ford Ranger truck, and have begun an intensive search.
	The identity of the sheriff's deputy was not immediately released, but he was a 10-year veteran of the force.

Sheriff's deputy fatally shot in Houston while pumping gas

An Afghan official says at least eight police officers have been killed in separate attacks by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan.
	Col Asadullah Ensafi, the deputy police chief in Ghazni province, said today another 15 police officers were wounded in the attacks on police checkpoints in the province's Andar and Qarabagh districts.
	The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, carried out yesterday. Insurgents have targeted police checkpoints targeted in recent months, resulting in high casualties.
	Separately, Ensafi says an Afghan airstrike killed 16 insurgents and wounded 17 late yesterday in Ghazni's capital.
	The war with the Taliban has been particularly tough this year for Afghan forces, who are fighting without international troops backing them up following the US and NATO ending their combat mission last year.

Afghan official: Taliban kill 8 police officers in attacks

The UN Security Council warned South Sudan's feuding president and ex-vice president that it is ready to impose an arms embargo and sanctions if they don't immediately stop fighting and implement a new peace agreement.
	A presidential statement approved by all 15 council members was aimed especially at President Salva Kiir, who signed the deal reluctantly and with reservations on Wednesday.
	Rebel leader and ex-vice president Riek Machar signed on August 17 without reservations. The Security Council quickly threatened sanctions after Kiir refused to sign at the time.
	The council statement welcomed the signatures but expressed concern "with any statement by any party suggesting a lack of commitment to implement the agreement."
	Fighting broke out in the world's newest nation in December 2013 after Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused Machar, an ethnic Nuer, of trying to oust him.That sparked ethnic attacks that have continued despite several attempts at cease-fires.
	The violence has killed 

UN warns South Sudan of sanctions if peace deal isn't kept

The small nation of El Salvador has recorded another milestone in criminal violence. At least 51 people were killed in a single day this week, the National Civil Police force has said.
	Thursday's toll surpassed the mark of 45 killed on Aug. 22 as gang violence continues to plague the Central American country of 6 million people.
	Authorities have said the surge in violence is a result of a government crackdown that has led to gunfights between police and criminals, as well as gang battles over territory.
	Police yesterday also reported finding the body of a slain police officer the 45th officer this year to die at the hands of gangs. Sixteen soldiers and six prison guards also have been killed.
	The government says 3,942 people were slain in 2014, an increase of 1,429 over 2013.

El Salvador reports 51 violent deaths in a day

Authorities say three Georgia men have been sentenced to prison in an anti-government militia plot.
	The US Attorney's office said in a news release yesterday that Brian Cannon, Terry Peace and Cory Williamson were sentenced to 12 years each in prison for conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction.
	US Attorney John Horn said Peace wanted the pipe bombs designed for "maximum fragmentation." The men are from Rome, Georgia.
	FBI officials have said Peace, Williamson and Cannon participated in online chats about executing a militia operation against the government. Authorities say the chat was being monitored by federal agents, and the men spoke with a confidential informant who offered them 12 pipe bombs and two grenades.
	Prosecutors say the men were arrested after the informant gave them fake explosives.

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