The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to deport Afghan refugees from a US-supported facility in Qatar to Pakistan as early as Monday, despite fears that some could later be forced back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, according to Anadolu. The possible deportation flight has not been officially announced. But rights advocates and relatives of detainees told NBC […]
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he is open to a formal British apology for the country’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, but has firmly rejected financial reparations, according to BBC News. Speaking ahead of next week’s Commonwealth summit in Antigua, Burnham described the slave trade as a “brutal and barbaric violation” and said […]
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Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has ordered the country’s armed forces to respond immediately and without “geographic limits” to any new threat from its enemies. The warning, posted on his official Telegram account, came as tensions between Tehran, Washington and Israel sharply intensified around the Strait of Hormuz, reported by The Express Tribune. Khamenei said […]
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Austria’s Constitutional Court has upheld a law requiring people to be at least 18 years old before they can marry, rejecting a challenge brought by an Austrian man and a Serbian woman who married abroad as teenagers, according to Kronen Zeitung. The couple married in Serbia when the man was 19 and the woman was […]
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