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Turkey to send back to 1 mn refugees to Syria: Erdogan
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey] Oct 15 (Sputnik/ANI): Turkey will send back to Syria one million refugees as the first step, while two more million will follow, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.
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Nepal: Gas leak causes fire at a refugee camp, injures one
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Oct 13 (ANI): One person was injured after a huge fire triggered by a gas leak burned down huts at a refugee camp in Jhapa district of Nepal on Sunday.
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Muslims in India are 'happiest': RSS chief
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Oct 13 (ANI): Dubbing that Muslims in India are the "happiest", Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) supremo Mohan Bhagwat asserted that people of other faiths have also sought refuge in India due to the "Hindu culture".
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Over 1,200 Syrians returned home from Jordan, Lebanon in past 24 hours: Ru
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia] Oct 9 (Sputnik/ANI): Over 1,200 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Jordan and Lebanon in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defence Ministry's Center for the Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Refugee Migration Monitoring said on Wednesday.
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Intruders will be shown the door, refugees given citizenship, says Shah in
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Oct 1 (ANI): Asserting that no "intruder" will be allowed to stay in the country while refugees belonging to Hindu and some other religions will be given citizenship, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that the BJP-led government will bring Nation
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Infiltrators will not be allowed to stay, refugees will be given citizensh
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Oct 1 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that the BJP-led Central government will not allow any "infiltrator" to stay in the county while refugees belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi, and Christian religions will be given citize
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Greece: Migrants set fire to refugee camp; 2 killed
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], Sept 30 (ANI): At least two people were killed after a fire broke out in an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, local media reported on Sunday.
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US plans to slash refugee intake to 18,000
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Sept 27 (ANI): The US on Wednesday announced that it plans to allow only 18,000 refugees to be resettled in the United States in the 2020 fiscal year, the lowest number since Washington began its refugee program in 1980.
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Kolhapur: Polish Minister unveils memorial pillar to mark arrival of refug
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Kolhapur (Maharashtra) [India], Sept 15 (ANI): Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, Marcin Przydacz, on Saturday unveiled a memorial pillar in memory of Polish families who were given refuge in Valivade during the World War II.
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Commemoration post in memory of Polish refugees to be unveiled at Valivade
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Kolhapur (Maharashtra) [India], Sept 12 (ANI): Deputy Foreign minister of Poland, Marcin Przydacz on Saturday will be unveiling a commemoration post in memory of Polish families who were given refuge in Valivade during Second World War.
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Bangladesh orders telecom operators to stop services in Rohingya camps
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sep 3 (ANI): Bangladesh's telecommunications authority has ordered all mobile phone operators to stop telecommunication services and sale of sim cards to almost one million Rohingya refugees living in Cox's Bazar camps.
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40 people feared dead after boat capsizes off Libya's coast
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], Aug 27 (ANI): At least 40 people are feared dead after another boat capsized off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).
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