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Turkey, US suspend visa services
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A], Oct 9 (ANI): The US and Turkey have suspended all non-immigrant visa services for travel between the two countries after last week's arrest of a US consulate employee in Istanbul.
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Trump administration sends immigration policy wish list to Congress
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A], Oct 9 (ANI):The Trump administration has sent an immigration policy wish list to Congress that threatens to derail efforts to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from being deported.
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Watchdog urges UN inquiry into Iran recruiting Afghan kids to fight in Syr
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Beirut [Lebanon], Oct.1 (ANI): A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report today revealed that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been recruiting Afghan immigrant children, as young as 14, to fight in Syria and urged the United Nations to investigate the matter.
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Centre reviews security situation along Myanmar border in Manipur
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Imphal (Manipur) [India], Sept. 28 (ANI): India shares a 1643-km-long international border with Myanmar and a 4096.7 km with Bangladesh and the north east region is one of the gateways to South East Asia.
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Rohingya crisis: India sends relief material to Bangladesh
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh) [India] Sept 24 (ANI): In continuance of yesterday's initiative to send relief packages to Rohingya immigrants in Bangladesh, India on Sunday loaded approximately 21,000 units of relief material on the INS Gharial to help its neighbouring nation evolve from the ongo
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Calling Rohingya Muslims illegal immigrants is disingenuous: Owaisi
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 21 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday termed Union Minister Rajnath Singh's statement that Rohingya Muslims are 'illegal immigrants' as 'disingenuous.'
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Suu Kyi bats for resisting collateral damage in counter-terrorism operatio
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 20 (ANI): The majority-Buddhist Myanmar is no stranger to the anti-muslim sentiment, even as the country's government has long denied citizenship to the Rohingyas, with the argument that they are illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
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SC to hear plea challenging decision to deport Rohingyas today
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 18 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday will hear plea filed by the two Rohingya immigrants, Mohammad Salimullah and Mohammad Shaqir.
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Trump's illegal immigration agenda gets setback from court
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.] Sept 16 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump's illegal immigrant agenda on Friday got setback from a court that barred the U.S. Justice Department from denying public-safety grants to so-called sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with the Trump administrat
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Will file affidavit on Sep. 18 in SC: HM Rajnath singh on Rohingya deporta
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 15 (ANI): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre would file an affidavit on the matter of deportation of Rohingya Muslims in Supreme Court on September 18.
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BJP slams Mayawati over Rohingyas, says India can't allow security situati
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 14 (ANI): After Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati urged the Centre to adopt a humanitarian approach towards thousands of Rohingya families seeking asylum in India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said that the Government of India cannot allow a sec
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15 U.S. states sue President Donald Trump over DACA
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], September 7 (ANI): As many as 15 U.S. states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit in New York to block President Donald Trump's plan to end the programme protecting young immigrants from deportation - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA
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