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Iraq suspends direct flights with Belarus over migrant crisis
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], November 13 (ANI/Xinhua): Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday announced the suspension of direct flights to Belarus to protect Iraqi migrants from human trafficking gangs.
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France urges Russia to use ties with Minsk to resolve migrants border cris
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Paris [France], November 12 (ANI/Sputnik): French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Defense Minister Florence Parly urged their Russian counterparts, Sergey Lavrov and Sergei Shoigu, at a meeting in Paris to use their close ties with Minsk to resolve the crisis on the Belarusian-Polish
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Belarus' military tried to expel 35 illegal immigrants into Poland by forc
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Warsaw [Poland], November 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Belarusian military tried to expel several dozen illegal migrants, mostly women and children, into the territory of Poland, Tomasz Krupa, a spokesman for Poland's Podlaskie Voivodeship police, said on Friday.
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Taiwan lifts entry ban on Indonesian migrant workers
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], November 12 (ANI): Taiwan has lifted an entry ban on migrant workers from Indonesia, implementing the first of two levels of COVID-19 quarantine requirements, Taipei News reported.
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Russia may close air routes to Asia if EU introduces sanctions against Aer
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], November 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Possible EU sanctions against Russian carrier Aeroflot over its alleged role in the migrant crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border would bring an immediate closure of Russian airspace to European airlines, which badly need the direct Siberian route
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Belarus Red Cross says staff to go to Polish border Friday to deliver aid
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Minsk [Belarus], November 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Employees of the Belarusian Red Cross Society plan to go to the border with Poland on November 12 to provide further humanitarian aid to migrants who have been camping there since early this week, Dmitry Shevtsov, the head of the organization's mis
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EU will expand sanctions against Belarus, says German foreign minister
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], November 11 (ANI/Sputnik): The European Union will expand sanctions on Belarus and individuals and companies involved in transporting illegal migrants there, including sectoral sanctions, Acting Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday.
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Jammu-based animal lover runs a shelter for injured, stray animals
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], November 11 (ANI): Jammu Municipal Corporation recently awarded a Kashmiri migrant living in the district's Hakkal village for rescuing over 368 street animals, and rehabilitating them with the help of trust.
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Germany ready to provide humanitarian aid to migrants at Belarusian-Polish
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], November 10 (ANI/Sputnik): Germany is ready to provide humanitarian support to migrants stranded at the Belarusian-Polish border, German interior ministry spokesman Steve Alter said on Wednesday.
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Dozens of illegal migrants rescued off Libyan coast
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], November 10 (ANI/Xinhua): A total of 65 illegal migrants were rescued at sea and returned to Libya, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
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Afghan migrants cross over to EU not only from Belarus, but also from Ukra
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Minsk [Belarus], November 10 (ANI): Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that Afghan migrants cross over to the European Union not only through Belarus but also through other countries, including Ukraine, the Russian state-owned news agency reported.
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Polish Prime Minister blames Russia for directing migrant run on border
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Warsaw [Poland], November 9 (ANI/Sputnik): Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki accused Russia on Tuesday of pulling the strings behind what Warsaw sees as a Belarusian operation to smuggle migrants into his country.
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