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Mark Zuckerberg expresses concern over Trump's immigration orders
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [United States], Jan. 28 (ANI): Criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees, Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg has expressed his concern on this decision.
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IOM to launch displacement tracking system in Afghanistan as humanitarian
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan. 28 (ANI): The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is launching a new displacement tracking system in Afghanistan to better understand population movements and needs amid concerns of a severe humanitarian crisis induced by sudden return home of hundreds o
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Trump signs executive action to keep 'radical Islamic terrorists'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [USA], Jan. 28 (ANI): U.S President Donald Trump has signed two executive actions, including one limiting the flow of refugees into the country by instituting "extreme vetting" of immigrants.
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More than 100 killed after military jet bombs refugee camp in Nigeria
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [United Kingdom], Jan. 18 (ANI): More than 100 people have been killed after a Nigerian military jet mistakenly bombed a refugee camp in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria.
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Afghan migrant attacks Bible-reading woman in Austria
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Jan. 1 (ANI): An Afghan migrant has reportedly attacked a Bible-reading woman in a refugee camp in Austria.
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JKLF chaiman Yasin Malik detained while protesting against refugees'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Dec. 30 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik was on Friday detained by police in Pulwama here, after he tried to protest against refugees' domicile issue.
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European Commission provides €3m for Rohingyas in Bangladesh
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec.29 (ANI): Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh will be provided emergency humanitarian assistance by the European Commission to the tune of Euro 300 000.
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Govt. tried to redeem an anomaly of past by granting domicile certificate:
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Dec. 24(ANI): Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh on Saturday said the opposition was having a problem with the present regime, as it has tried to redeem an anomaly of the past by granting domicile certificates to ref
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Domicile certificate has nothing to do with 'religion' of West P
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Jaipur [India], Dec. 23 (ANI): Defending its move to grant domicile certificates to West Pakistan refugees, the Centre on Friday swatted off charges that the move had a 'Hindutva' agenda behind it, asserting that the nation owes it to them to ensure for they get dignified means of
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China: 'Air-pocalypse' blights half a billion, smog refugees fle
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Dec. 21 (ANI): With the world's most populated nation being hit by "airpocalyse" reducing people to survive under a blanket of toxic fumes, several of "smog refugees" have reportedly fled China's pollution-stricken north.
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Three UN staffers abducted in Sudan released
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Dec 20 (ANI): Three United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) staff members including two Nepalis who were abducted on November 27 from El Geneina, Sudan, have been safely released.
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Indonesian Foreign Minister visits Rohingya refugee camp
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec. 20 (ANI): Visiting Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi along with his Bangladeshi counterpart A. H. Mahmood Ali on Tuesday visited the Rohingyas living in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya.
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