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HRW accuses Pakistan of mass forced returns of afghan refugees
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Feb 13 (ANI): New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Monday that Pakistani authorities have carried out a campaign of abuses and threats to drive out nearly 600,000 Afghans since July 2016.
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Trump Admin considering various options to reinstate travel ban
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Feb 11 (ANI): Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump, Stephen Miller on Sunday said that the administration is considering various options to reinforce the travel ban on all refugees and travelers from the seven majority-Muslim nations.
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Post court ruling, 72 pc refugees entered from banned Muslim countries: Tr
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Feb 12 (ANI): President Donald Trump, on Sunday, lashed out at the court again for halting his travel ban while saying that 72 percent of the refugees, who entered the United States following the ruling are from the seven countries that were listed in the imm
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Not sure how Trump's order would help America: Defence Expert
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 12 (ANI): In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump signing an executive order that effectively suspends immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days, the U.S. refugee programme for 120 days and Syrian refugees from entering the country, America has b
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America's legal system is 'broken': Trump on travel ban rep
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Feb 11 (ANI): President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at his country's legal system saying it was "broken", as 77 percent of refugees allowed into the U.S. since the travel reprieve, hailed from the very seven Muslim countries he had accu
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HRW urges Bangladesh to reject Rohingya relocation plan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [USA], Feb. 9 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Bangladesh to immediately drop its plan to transfer Rohingya refugees from the Cox's Bazar area to Thengar Char, an uninhabited coastal island, saying the move would deprive them of their rights to freedom of movement,
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Immigrants make America great: NY restaurant spreads brotherhood through r
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], Feb. 8 (ANI): In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump signing an executive order that effectively suspends immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days, the U.S. refugee programme for 120 days and Syrian refugees from entering the country, a bold political
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U.S. Homeland Security Department suspends Trump's immigration order
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb. 4 (ANI): The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Saturday suspended all actions to implement President Donald Trump's immigration order after a federal judge in Seattle issued a ruling to temporarily block the executive order on immigration and refugees.
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PeeCee 'deeply affected' by Trump's refugee ban
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 04 (ANI): After several Hollywood actors came out in the open to voice their protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping refugee ban, Desi girl-'gone-international' Priyanka Chopra did not lag behind in voicing her concern against the move.
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Action 'should be based on facts, not fear', Angelina Jolie slam
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb. 3 (ANI): Angelina Jolie, like numerous other Hollywood celebs, has spoken out against President Donald Trump's controversial executive order that suspended the entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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Trump's advisor makes up 'Bowling Green Massacre' to defend
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [USA], Feb. 3 (ANI): President Donald Trump's former campaign manager and now his senior advisor Kellyanne Conway has in an interview with an American TV channel referred to a made up terrorist attack committed by Iraqi refugees, the "Bowling Green Massacre" while def
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Post ban, Syrian envoy dubs U.S. as 'sponsor of terrorism'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Surajkund (Haryana) [India], Feb. 2 (ANI): Syrian Ambassador to India, Riad Abbas, snubbed U.S. President Donald Trump for his ban on refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, saying America is the sponsor of terrorism across the globe and not these nations.
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