Following are the top foreign stories at 1700 hours

    
     FGN51: BANGLA-4THDLD MISRI
     *Foreign secretaries meeting: India expresses concern over safety of minorities in B'desh, desires 'constructive' ties
     Dhaka: India on Monday expressed concerns over the safety of minorities in Bangladesh and its desire for a "positive, constructive and mutually beneficial" relationship with the neighbour as Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri held high-level talks with his counterpart in Dhaka.
    
     FGN46: US-INDIAN-PHOTOGRAPHER-LD RACISM
     'Stand up for yourself': Indian-American Family to press charges against woman over racist abuse
     New York: An Indian-American family plans to press charges against the woman who hurled racist slurs at them on an airline shuttle bus, saying their generation is different from that of their parents and they won’t just put their head down and keep quiet.
    
     FGN9: US-TRUMP-IMMIGRATION
     Will make it easier for people to come in legally, says Trump; insists on deporting all illegal immigrants
     Washington: Incoming US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would go ahead with his plans to deport all illegal immigrants after entering the Oval Office and said at the same time he would make it easier for people to come in, a move that could be helpful to Indians who mostly enter the US legally.
    
     FGN7: US-LD SYRIA
     Fall of Assad regime 'historic opportunity for people' of Syria: Biden
     Washington: The fall of the Assad regime that brutalised, tortured and killed thousands of innocent Syrians over the past half a century is a historic opportunity for the people of the country, outgoing US President Joe Biden said on Sunday.*

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