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WASHINGTON - The US government has rescinded a new rule that could have denied international students their stay in the country if they only attend online courses in the coming fall semester, a federal judge in Boston, Massachusetts said Tuesday.

Alexander Auster came to the United States for college because here, unlike in his native Germany, he could study and swim, with hopes of someday competing in the Olympics. His Olympics dream fizzled. But after a successful college career at George Washington University, he stayed for law school and planned to start his legal career here, too.

The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) said it has arrested an individual who sold methamphetamine or “ice” through social media platform Twitter and also distributed the drug via post.

Police found and seized 450 kilogrammes of crystal meth or “ice” when a 10-wheel truck hit a road island on the southbound Phetkasem road in Phetchaburi’s Muang district Friday night.

Two Myanmar women were arrested at a border checkpoint in Chiang Rai Tuesday evening for allegedly trying to smuggle two kilogrammes of crystal meth or "ice" and 41,000 methamphetamine pills into Thailand.

A Thai man has been arrested at Don Mueang Airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 970 grams of crystal meth or “ice” to Japan, police said.

Two African men have been arrested along with 533 grams of crystal meth or "ice" in Bangkok's Suan Luang district.

Border patrol police and Army troops found 5.4 million methamphetamine pills and 185 kilogrammes of crystal meth hidden in a cave in Chiang Mai’s Chiang Dao district.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tested more than 16 tonnes of narcotics – including 12 tonnes of methamphetamine pills – on Tuesday before the drugs get destroyed.

Drug-suppression police arrested three suspects in Songkhla and seized 178,800 methamphetamine pills and 1.09 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine from them, a deputy national police chief said on Tuesday.

A Bangkok resident was arrested last week while delivering 10 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine to a police informant, Narcotics Suppression Bureau commissioner Pol Lt-General Chinnaphat Sarasin said on Monday.

The authorities have managed to intercept a container carrying a tonne of crystal methamphetamine or “ice” worth close to Bt2 billion before it could leave the country.