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4/24/2024 11:23:50 AM
Migrants, vaccines, pedophilia rings -- old conspiracy theories are resurfacing ahead of the US election despite being repeatedly debunked, in what researchers call "zombie" falsehoods that appear to resonate with polarized voters.
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Africa
4/23/2024 7:35:51 PM
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak 's latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda finally won approval from Parliament early Tuesday, hours after he pledged deportation flights would begin in July.
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4/23/2024 5:35:49 PM
The bodies of 22 people presumed to be sub-Saharan migrants were found off the coast of the Tunisian port city of Sfax in recent days, a court spokesperson said Tuesday.
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4/22/2024 9:09:41 PM
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday pledged that deportation flights to Rwanda would begin this summer as he called on the unelected House of Lords to stop blocking his key policy for ending the tide of small boats carrying migrants across the English Channel.
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4/9/2024 5:44:02 PM
UK leader Rishi Sunak and Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame reiterated Tuesday that they expect Britain to soon start sending undocumented migrants to the African country, despite fresh questions over the controversial scheme.
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3/26/2024 7:18:14 PM
More than a decade ago, the death of 600 migrants and refugees in two Mediterranean shipwrecks near Italian shores shocked the world and prompted the UN migration agency to start recording the number of people who died or went missing as they fled conflict, persecution or poverty to other countries.
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3/6/2024 3:38:59 PM
At least 8,565 people died on migration routes worldwide in 2023, making it the deadliest year since records began a decade ago, the UN's International Organization for Migration said Wednesday.
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Foreign Affairs
2/27/2024 11:59:00 PM
The Cairo International Centre for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA) launched, for the second time, a project to cooperate with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Switzerland to improve African capacities to combat human trafficking and smuggling of migrants.
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2/18/2024 9:43:29 PM
Officials in northern France said Sunday rescue boats had saved nearly 140 people who got into difficulty while attempting the perilous Channel crossing to England this weekend.
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2/13/2024 8:10:11 PM
More than 1,300 irregular migrants died at sea or went missing trying to reach Europe from Tunisia last year, a Tunisian rights group said on Tuesday.
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1/16/2024 10:41:35 PM
Around 40 Tunisian migrants attempting to reach Italy by sea have been missing for five days, the Tunisian National Guard said on Tuesday.
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International
12/28/2023 4:52:07 PM
A ragged migrant tent camp next to the Rio Grande is a long way from Mexico's National Palace, where a U.S. delegation met this week with Mexico's president seeking more action to curb the surge of migrants reaching the U.S. border.
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International
12/20/2023 10:32:21 AM
EU countries and lawmakers reached an agreement Wednesday on an overhaul of the bloc's laws on handling asylum-seekers and migrants, officials said.
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12/17/2023 6:26:36 PM
A boat carrying dozens of migrants trying to reach Europe capsized off the coast of Libya, leaving more than 60 people dead, including women and children, the UN migration agency said.
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Africa
12/12/2023 10:08:31 PM
UK lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favour of the government's latest plans to send migrants to Rwanda, which has split Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ruling Conservative party.
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International
12/7/2023 3:58:18 PM
UK leader Rishi Sunak defiantly insisted on Thursday that his latest immigration plan will work, as the issue threatened to tear apart his ruling Conservatives, putting his premiership in jeopardy.
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International
12/6/2023 10:12:09 PM
Britain's immigration minister quit on Wednesday after the government published legislation regarding its controversial treaty with Rwanda to send migrants to the East African country.
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Africa
11/15/2023 3:34:32 PM
Britain’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government’s contentious plan to send some migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda is illegal, striking a major blow to a key policy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government that has drawn international attention and criticism.
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World
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11/7/2023 2:51:27 PM
Germany on Tuesday agreed to tighten rules for asylum seekers, cutting financial help for migrants seeking refuge and speeding up the decision process on whether to take them in.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/6/2023 10:49:08 PM
Libya has started deporting about 600 undocumented Egyptian migrants, an official of the Tripoli-based government told AFP on Monday.
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