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Saudi woman held at Bangkok airport 'fears death' if repatriated
AFP, Published on 06/01/2019
» A Saudi woman held at Bangkok airport said she would be killed if she was repatriated by Thai immigration officials, who confirmed the 18-year-old was denied entry to the country on Sunday.
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'Too fat' man wins deportation reprieve
AFP, Published on 09/09/2013
» WELLINGTON - An overweight South African threatened with deportation from New Zealand because of his obesity was Monday granted a 23-month reprieve.
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Plane held on trafficking concerns lands in India
AFP, Published on 26/12/2023
» MUMBAI - A plane grounded in France for days over concerns it was part of a human trafficking scheme landed in India on Tuesday, with its passengers avoiding media questions as they quickly exited bustling Mumbai airport.
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Migrants call UK barge accommodation a ‘prison’
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» WEYMOUTH, England - In the damp December cold, a blue bus stops near Weymouth town centre in southwest England. A few men get off, relieved to be spending a few hours away from what they call their "prison" — a barge housing asylum seekers.
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EU: Turkey 'must soften tone to avoid isolation'
AFP, Published on 06/12/2023
» ISTANBUL - Turkey has become internationally isolated and must dial down its rhetoric if it wants to win key concessions from the European Union, a top European official said Wednesday in Istanbul.
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US charges Indian man with foiled hit on American Sikh activist
AFP, Published on 30/11/2023
» WASHINGTON - The US Justice Department unveiled charges on Wednesday against a man they say planned to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader on American soil earlier this year under the direction of an Indian official.
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Celebrations as Nepal registers first LGBTQ marriage
AFP, Published on 30/11/2023
» KATHMANDU - An LGBTQ couple has acquired a marriage certificate in Nepal, officials said Thursday, a first in South Asia and hailed by the pair as a win "for all".
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Finland says to shut last border crossing to Russia
AFP, Published on 29/11/2023
» HELSINKI - Finland's prime minister said Tuesday the country will shut its last border crossing with Russia, following an influx of migrants which Helsinki claims is a hybrid attack orchestrated by Moscow.
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Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital a 'death zone', WHO says urging evacuation
AFP, Published on 19/11/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES): Gaza's largest hospital has become a "death zone", the World Health Organization said Sunday, announcing plans to evacuate the last remaining patients as Israel's army said it was expanding operations to destroy Hamas.
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Australia offers Tuvalu citizens climate refuge
AFP, Published on 10/11/2023
» SYDNEY - Citizens of climate-threatened Tuvalu will have the right to live in Australia under a landmark pact unveiled Friday -- an offer of refuge as their Pacific homeland is lost beneath the seas.
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