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Government & Politics
Cyprus minister says his nation leads EU in repatriations and migrant arrivals are down sharply
(AP) Cyprus is the first European Union member country to repatriate more migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected than have arrived in a single year, the east Mediterranean island nation’s interior minister said Thursday. Constantinos Ioannou told the state broadcaster that […]
Children & Teens
Finland repatriates eight citizens from Syria The Foreign Ministry on Sunday said it had evacuated six Finnish children and two mothers from northeast Syria.
(Yle) The Foreign Ministry on Sunday said the mothers were repatriated together with their children and that these eight people were now in the care of Finnish authorities. This is the first time the government repatriated mothers from Syria. The Foreign Ministry […]
Legal
Quebec woman returning from Syria with children charged with joining Islamic State
(Canadian Press) A Quebec woman who allegedly travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State terrorist group has been repatriated from a detention camp in Syria and is facing terrorism charges, the RCMP said Wednesday. Oumaima Chouay faces charges of leaving Canada […]