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Rwanda expects first 50 asylum seekers transferred from UK by end of May
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Rwanda expects first 50 asylum seekers transferred from UK by end of May

Kigali, Rwanda – Rwanda expects the first group of 50 asylum seekers to be transferred from Britain by the end…
Cubans are arriving to the US in record numbers. Smugglers are profiting from their exodus
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Cubans are arriving to the US in record numbers. Smugglers are profiting from their exodus

Havana, Cuba (CNN) – As Cuba confronts the worst shortages of food and medicine in decades and runaway inflation, a…
Migrants sew their mouths shut in quest for Mexico passage to U.S. border
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Migrants sew their mouths shut in quest for Mexico passage to U.S. border

TAPACHULA, Mexico, Feb 15 (Reuters) – A dozen undocumented migrants on Mexico’s southern border sewed their mouths shut on Tuesday…
Tunisian women’s posts glamorize risky migrant crossings
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Tunisian women’s posts glamorize risky migrant crossings

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — In a photo posted in November, 18-year-old Sabee al Saidi is shown wearing bright-pink lipstick as…
‘Back to me in a coffin’ – bodies of migrants drowned in Channel reach Iraq
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‘Back to me in a coffin’ – bodies of migrants drowned in Channel reach Iraq

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, Dec 26 (Reuters) – At least 16 bodies of Iraqi Kurdish migrants who drowned in November when their…
Shun polarisation, try dialogue to heal divided world, pope says at Christmas
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Shun polarisation, try dialogue to heal divided world, pope says at Christmas

VATICAN CITY, Dec 25 (Reuters) – Pope Francis in his Christmas message on Saturday decried increasing polarisation in personal and…
Freezing in the Alps, migrants find warm hearts and comfort
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Freezing in the Alps, migrants find warm hearts and comfort

MONTGENEVRE, France (AP) — From the inky night, two women loomed. Police? The wary migrants, crossing the high-altitude Alpine border…
‘I am dead here’: Lebanese join Mideast migrants to Europe
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‘I am dead here’: Lebanese join Mideast migrants to Europe

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Ziad Hilweh knew his family might die on the way. But the risk was worth it,…
With migrants in mind, Pope Francis visits divided Cyprus
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With migrants in mind, Pope Francis visits divided Cyprus

NICOSIA, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Pope Francis visits Cyprus this week to lend his support to a conflict-riven island now…
Migrant crisis front and center in pope’s Greece-Cyprus trip
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Migrant crisis front and center in pope’s Greece-Cyprus trip

LESBOS, Greece (AP) — When Pope Francis visited the Greek island of Lesbos in 2016, he was so moved by…
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