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Millions of Syrians at grave risk if UN fails to strike deal on last border crossing

Aid workers are warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe in parts of Syria if the UN Security Council fails to renew a resolution allowing the last humanitarian border crossing to remain open. There had been a total of four border crossings approved in 2014 that allowed humanitarian aid to enter Syria from Turkey. Three were closed in July 2020 following a series of Russian and Chinese vetoes. Now, the Bab […]

today8 July 2021

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US top court blocks Trump bid to end young immigrants programme

US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, the second stunning election-season rebuke from the court in a week after its ruling that it's illegal to fire people because they're gay or transgender. For now, the young immigrants retain their protection from deportation and their authorisation to work in the United States. The 5-4 outcome, in which Chief Justice John […]

today19 June 2020

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At least 48 migrants dead after boat sinks off Tunisian coast

At least 48 migrants were killed when their boat sank off Tunisia’s coast and 67 others were rescued by the coast guard, officials said on Sunday, one of the worst migrant boat accidents in recent years. The boat went down near the southern island of Kerkenna, a tourist spot, in the night to Sunday, the defense ministry said in a statement. The victims were Tunisians and other nationalities, it said, […]

today4 June 2018

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Urgent appeal for humanitarian aid for Rohingya

The United Nations have called the Rohingya of Myanmar one of the world’s most persecuted ethnic minorities. Gross human rights violations of the Rohingya have been recorded since 1978. The state sanctioned violence against them is symptomatic of a long and oppressive history of discrimination by the Myanmar government. Myanmar has labelled the Rohingya  from Bangladesh rendering them stateless however the Rohingya presence in Myanmar goes back many generations. The […]

today5 September 2017

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Trump to ‘deport up to three million immigrants’

US president-elect Donald Trump said he planned to immediately deport or jail as many as three million undocumented immigrants, as he set out his priorities in the first television interview since his election. The interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" is to be broadcast on Sunday with millions expected to tune in for clues on how the billionaire businessman-turned-politician will govern the country. Since Tuesday's election triumph, Trump had appeared to […]

today14 November 2016

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