Tag: political refugees
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UN raises alert for 780,000 people displaced in Mozambique, most due to violence in north
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The United Nations’ refugee chief has raised a new alert over 780,000 displaced people in Mozambique
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Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill suffers first defeats in UK House of Lords
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LONDON — The House of Lords inflicted the first defeats on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government as it tries to pass controversial legislation designed to enable the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda. The government’s bill seeks to designate Rwanda a “safe” destination for deportees, despite a Supreme Court ruling last year that refugees risked…
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Netanyahu insists on Israeli military offensive in Rafah
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Despite international warnings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Saturday that an Israeli military offensive would be launched in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. “Of course, only after we make it possible for civilians in the combat zones to move to safe areas,” Netanyahu told journalists in Jerusalem. He…
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Israeli forces storm the main hospital in southern Gaza, saying hostages were likely held there
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Israeli forces have stormed the main hospital in southern Gaza in what the army says is a search for the remains of hostages taken by Hamas
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Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli forces are storming the Khan Younis hospital after evacuation of displaced people
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli forces are storming the Khan Younis hospital after evacuation of displaced people.
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Israel unveils tunnels underneath Gaza City headquarters of UN agency for Palestinian refugees
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The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City
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Migrants from Africa and Mideast who died in Bosnia get marble headstones and a memorial
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In cities along a section of the Drina River that forms a natural border between Bosnia and Serbia, simple, durable gravestones mark the final resting places of dozens of migrants who drowned in recent years trying to reach Western Europe