Tag: Migration
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Myanmar’s military government has ramped up killings and arrests in an apparent bid to silence opponents and recruit soldiers in an escalating conflict, with tens of thousands detained since a 2021 coup, a U.N. report said on Tuesday. Les parlementaires géorgiens ont approuvé mardi en troisième et dernière lecture une loi sur les “valeurs familiales…
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Sweden offers to pay migrants from third-world countries $34,000 to self-deport
Sweden is radically changing its migrant policies, in what the government is calling a “paradigm shift,” to reverse the course of decades of leniency. The Minister of Migration announced it would pay migrants to return to their home of origin, up to $34,000. Migration Minister Johan Forssell announced the policy amid the right-wing bloc taking…
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After seven weeks in office, how is Iran’s President Pezeshkian faring?
Tehran, Iran – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has now been in office for a month and a half in one of the most eventful and tumultuous starting periods for a president since the country’s 1979 revolution. Over the past seven weeks, Iran has grappled with rising tensions with Israel — including considering a retaliatory strike…
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Tory peer ‘regrets’ anti-immigration rhetoric
BBC Lord Timothy Kirkhope was immigration minister for two years until 1997 before his role as an MEP representing Yorkshire and the Humber A former immigration minister has said he “regrets” the former Conservative government’s Stop The Boats rhetoric which he believes was used to inflame this summer’s riots. A banner emblazoned with the slogan,…
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Sweden wants to pay immigrants up to $34,000 to voluntarily leave
Sweden plans to boost payments to up to $34,000 to immigrants who leave the nation that has been a haven for the war-weary and persecuted, the right-wing government said Thursday. The Scandinavian country was for decades seen as a “humanitarian superpower”, but over the years has struggled to integrate many of its newcomers. Immigrants who…
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Key foreign policy takeaways from the Harris-Trump presidential debate
The highly anticipated US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump took place on Tuesday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the candidates trading barbs over Israel’s war on Gaza and defending their pro-Israel credentials. This was the second presidential debate this year for Trump, who also went up against Joe Biden in June. Biden’s stuttering…