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Japan approves six-month visa for Myanmar soccer player seeking asylum
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], July 3 (ANI): Myanmar national soccer goalkeeper Pyae Lyan Aung, who applied for refugee status in Japan last month, has been approved visa for six months on Friday, Kyodo News reported.
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Kareena Kapoor is 'Grateful, Happy, Blessed, Motivated' on completing 21 y
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor Khan, on Wednesday celebrated 21 years of her debut movie, 'Refugee' by sharing a compilation video of special moments from the movie.
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Myanmar soccer player applies for refugee status in Japan after three-fing
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Osaka [Japan], June 23 (ANI): Myanmar national soccer goalkeeper Pyae Lyan Aung applied for refugee status in Japan on Tuesday after he expressed fear for his life for making a three-finger salute in protest at the military coup in his country during a recent World Cup qualifier near Tokyo,
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Myanmar soccer goalkeeper to apply for refugee status in Japan as military
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], June 20 (ANI): Pyae Lyan Aung, Myanmar national soccer goalkeeper, will apply for refugee status in Japan on Tuesday after expressing fear for his life for making a three-finger salute in protest at the military coup in his country during a recent World Cup qualifier near Toky
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Myanmar: Timely support, action by Security Council 'really paramount', sa
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 19 (ANI): UN Special Envoy for Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener on Friday said timely support and action by UN Security Council (UNSC) is paramount in the ongoing crisis in the Southeast Asian country stemming from the military coup in February.
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Amit Shah reviews Jammu and Kashmir's developmental projects
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 18 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday reviewed the ongoing developmental projects in Jammu and Kashmir and directed the authorities to make sure that refugees from Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) and West Pakistan get the benefits of the refu
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Forced displacement of people reaches record high of 82.4 million, says UN
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 18 (ANI): The number of people displaced due to persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations in the world has increased to a record 82.4 million, according to the Global Trends report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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SC defers by two weeks hearing IUML's plea challenging Centre's notificati
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred for two weeks the hearing on the petition, filed by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) challenging the May 28 notification of the ministry of home affairs (MHA) that allowed allowing non-Muslim refugees to apply for c
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Plea in SC against MHA's notification for citizenship applications from no
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notification inviting Indian citizenship applications from non-Muslim refugees belonging to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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UN urges G7 to ensure COVID-19 vaccine access across low-income countries
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 9 (ANI/Sputnik): Eight United Nations officials have called on the Group of Seven (G7) leading economies to ensure peoples across the developing world get full and equal access to coronavirus vaccines, the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Refugees (OHCR) said on We
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COVID-19 vaccination almost out of reach for poor people, refugees in Paki
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 9 (ANI): In Pakistan, where nearly a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line, getting vaccinated against COVID-19 has become very difficult for them as well as for the refugees who are residing in the country.
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Tokyo 2020: 29 refugee athletes to send message of solidarity, hope
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], June 8 (ANI): Twenty-nine athletes competing across 12 sports and from 13 host National Olympic Committees (NOCs) will be part of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Refugee Olympic Team (EOR) Tokyo 2020.
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