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As soon as she stepped onto Mexican soil this week, Venezuelan migrant Yuri Carolina Melendez downloaded the US government’s app to apply for asylum appointments. The CBP One app has been around, but as of Friday migrants in Mexico’s…
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The British government on Wednesday announced new measures to crack down on high numbers of asylum seekers arriving illegally on small boats from France. It said 100 “new specialist intelligence and investigation officers” would be…
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Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye continues to rule with an unrelenting “wave of repression” despite hopes of change when he took office four years ago, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Human rights defenders, journalists…
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Azerbaijan formally applied Tuesday to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies, a day after Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s visit to the oil-rich South Caucasus country to shore up regional ties and secure Moscow’s under-pressure trade…
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Russia launched its fifth missile attack on Kyiv this month, Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday, with preliminary data showing air defense systems were again successful in repelling the strikes. The missile attack followed a drone attack…
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The US State Department condemned “dangerous actions” by China on Monday against Philippine vessels in the South China Sea. Chinese ships “employed reckless maneuvers, deliberately colliding with two Philippine Coast Guard ships, causing…
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Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Saturday accused Ethiopia of not accepting his country as a sovereign state. And he renewed his attack on Addis Ababa’s agreement with a breakaway Somali region. “Ethiopia refuses to…
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A prison break in the Haitian city of Saint-Marc left 12 inmates dead on Friday, Mayor Myriam Fievre said, the third such incident in Haiti in recent months amid a protracted humanitarian crisis fueled by gang violence. State Prosecutor…
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday pardoned 30 prisoners convicted over protests, the presidential website said. Lukashenko “signed a decree pardoning 30 people convicted for crimes related to protests,” the statement…
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A Polish deputy prime minister on Friday denied his country’s involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September 2022. “Poland did not take part in anything. It has to be said clearly that this is…
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