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Pakistan has deported more than 19,500 Afghans this month, among more than 80,000 who have left ahead of a 30 April deadline, according to the UN. Pakistan has accelerated its drive to expel undocumented Afghans and those who had temporary permission to stay, saying it can no longer cope. Between 700 and 800 families are being deported daily, Taliban officials say, with up to two million people expected to follow in the coming months. Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar flew to Kabul on Saturday for talks with Taliban officials. His counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi expressed "deep concern" about deportations. Some...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent wouldn’t let Jackeline Reyes explain why she and her 15-year-old daughter fled Honduras and needed asylum, pointing to the coronavirus. It was just days after the Trump administration quietly empowered itself to shut down the nation’s asylum system. “The agent told us about the virus and that we couldn’t go further, but she didn’t let us speak or anything,” said Reyes, 35, who was shuttled on March 24 to Reynosa, Mexico, a violent border city. The Trump administration is relying on a seldom-used public health law to set aside decades-old national and international immigration laws....

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (Reuters) - The Illinois House of Representatives on Friday expelled a Democratic lawmaker indicted for bribery, the first member to be booted from the chamber since 1905. State House Representative Derrick Smith, who represents a staunchly Democratic district in Chicago, was arrested in March and charged with accepting a $7,000 bribe in exchange for endorsing a daycare center's state grant application. He has denied the charges. Days after his arrest and indictment, Smith won the Democratic Party primary to contest the November 6 election, in part because some Democrats hoped he would resign and be replaced on the...

Two British tourists were kicked out of America after joking on Twitter that they were going to “destroy America” and “dig up Marilyn Monroe,’”according to the Daily Mail. DHS Expels Two Brits From America Over Joking Tweet: Report After landing in Los Angeles International Airport with his friend Emily Bunting, authorities detained and handcuff Leigh Van Bryan, 26, who was then moved into a guarded cell for 12 hours as a result of the offending tweet. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) flagged Bryan as a potential threat after he tweeted out to friends the following message about his Hollywood...

Palestinian Authority’s envoy to Canada was told to leave the country after she tweeted a link to a video urging a “war" to destroy Jews.” The Palestinian Authority envoy to Canada was told to leave the country after she tweeted a link to a video of an Arab girl calling for a “war to raze oppression and injustice to destroy Jews.” The PA official, Linda Sobeh Ali, told Canadian media that she had not seen the video which she sent on Twitter with the notation, ”Check this out.” She apologized but charged that the incident was "intentionally magnified and misinterpreted...

Colonel Vadim Leiderman arrested, questioned late last week; Israeli security reportedly questioned him upon his arrival for allegedly contacting a foreign agent, suspicions from which he was cleared. Israel's military attaché in Moscow was arrested and expelled earlier this week, it was revealed on Wednesday, with sources saying that the top Israel Defense Forces officer was questioned over espionage suspicions. Leiderman, who was born in the Soviet Union, has a doctorate in engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. He was a member of the Israel Air Force (IAF) technical corps, and spent some years working for...

The International Federation of Journalists has expelled the Israeli branch after refusing to allow it to pay the same reduced amount of dues levied on neighboring countries, such as Jordan. Chaim Shibi, an Israeli branch official and veteran Israeli journalist, charged that the action by the international body is the culmination of a long-standing anti-Israeli bias.

A PEACE activist from Northern Ireland, arrested by Israeli forces in the West Bank and initially thought to be an IRA bombmaker, was expelled from Israel and placed on a London-bound plane at Israel's main international airport today, witnesses said. He had earlier been taken from the Israeli prison in Petah Tikva, where he was held for three days, to Ben Gurion airport for his expulsion by the Israeli authorities. Israeli forces had said they arrested John Morgan, 40, and said to be a member of the Real IRA, a hardline faction Irish Republican Army, on Saturday. But it later...

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India expels diplomats as tension with Pakistan rises By Phil Reeves in Delhi 23 January 2003 India threw out two senior Pakistani diplomats and two other officials yesterday, deepening the winter chill that now grips the relationship between the two hostile neighbours. It added to tension, cranked up to an alarming level in the past few days by a fresh batch of Indian missile tests, more deaths in Kashmir and a major new military deal between Delhi and Moscow. India announced yesterday that four officials from the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi had 48 hours to leave the country. Those...

Monday, 11 November, 2002, 11:52 GMT Sweden expels Russians in spy row Ericsson makes technology for the Gripen fighter jet Sweden has expelled two Russian diplomats over an alleged industrial espionage scandal at a subsidiary of telecoms and defence giant Ericsson. The two have been declared persona non grata and have left the country, Swedish Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Hakansson told BBC News Online. She said they had been expelled in connection with the Ericsson case as "their activities were not compatible with their diplomatic status". Although best known for its mobile and office phones, Ericsson is a major manufacturer...