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Evo Morales accepts political asylum granted by Mexico
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Mexico City [Mexico], Nov 12 (ANI): Evo Morales, who had announced his resignation as Bolivian president a day earlier, on Monday (local time) accepted the political asylum offered by the Mexican government.
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Gulalai Ismail: The new face of anti-Pakistan protest in New York
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], Sept 28 (ANI): Gulalai Ismail, a Pakistani women's rights activist on the run, who managed to escape Pakistan to seek political asylum in the United States, is now the new face of hope for the many oppressed minorities of the Islamic country. On Friday morning, Ismail appea
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Kin of Pak's former MLA seeks Centre's intervention for asylum
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Khanna (Punjab) [India], Sept 10 (ANI): The family of Baldev Kumar, a former MLA from Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), on Tuesday requested the Central government to intervene and provide political asylum to him.
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Hindus, Sikhs tortured in Pakistan, says ex-PTI MLA; seeks asylum in India
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Khanna (Punjab) [India], Sep 10 (ANI): A leader from Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party is seeking asylum in India along with his family, over atrocities on minorities in Pakistan.
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Ex-MLA from Imran Khan's party seeks political asylum in India
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 10 (ANI): Pakistan's record of using unfair means of treatment against the minority communities was exposed once again after a former legislator of Prime Minister Imran Khan's party sought political asylum in India in one of the latest reports of atrocities across the
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Maldives former vice-prez deported after govt rejects his asylum request
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Thoothukudi (Tamil Nadu) [India], Aug 3 (ANI): Former vice president of Maldives, Ahmed Adeeb Abdul Ghafoor, who was detained here after entering India without valid documents, has been deported to his country, port authorities said on Saturday.
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Saudi to lift travel restrictions on its women
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], Aug 2 (ANI): The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would be enacting amendments which would grant its women the right to apply for passports and travel independently, said Reema Bandar Al-Saud, the country's Ambassador to the United States on Friday.
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Princess Haya, wife of Dubai's Sheikh, seeks political asylum in UK
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 4 (ANI): Princess Haya bint Hussein, who left her husband, the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has been seeking political asylum in Britain and is asking for a divorce.
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'Mufti should be sent to mental asylum for criticising Indian cricket team
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Monday lashed out at former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, saying she should be sent to a mental asylum for blaming the Indian cricket team's jersey for their defeat in the World Cup match against England.
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US considers providing temporary asylum to Venezuelans
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 12 (ANI): President Donald Trump here on Tuesday (local time) said that he was looking into the possibility of granting temporary asylum to thousands of Venezuelans who have fled to the United States amid political turmoil in their country.
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to fight extradition to US
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 2 (ANI): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday told a London court that he will fight extradition to the United States where he faces trial for conspiring to hack a US government website, one of the largest compromises of classified information in history.
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Ecuadoran Prez: Assange attempted to use Embassy as 'spying centre'
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], Apr 15 (ANI): Justifying his decision to withdraw Julian Assange's asylum status, Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno in an interview to the Guardian newspaper on Sunday that the Wikileaks founder had violated his asylum rules many times and attempted to use the Embassy as a "centr
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