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Canada back in court defending pact with US to turn back asylum-seekers

A victory for the government would mean asylum-seekers would continue to be turned back at the Canadian border under conditions a court found violated their rights. A loss would force Ottawa to...

Myanmar migrants to be deported from Malaysia are seen inside an immigration truck, in Lumut, Malaysia February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng

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Malaysia court allows temporary stay of deportation of 1,200 Myanmar nationals

FILE PHOTO: A group of migrants walk past plowed farmland after crossing into the United States from Mexico, as they make their way towards a gap in the border wall to surrender to US border patrol, near Penitas, Texas, U.S., January 10, 2019. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

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Biden moves to bring in asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico under Trump program

A family, claiming to be from Colombia, gets set to cross the border into Canada from the United States as asylum seekers on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 near Champlain, NY / The Canadian Press

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Asylum ‘under attack’ at Europe’s borders: UN

Cuban migrants, under the "Remain in Mexico" program, celebrate after media announced that Democratic US presidential nominee Joe Biden has won the 2020 US presidential election in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

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Biden win bolsters asylum seekers' hopes of policy shift

On rafts they came. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash/TBS

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Save refugees and asylum seekers stranded at Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea: Humanitarian agencies

Guatemalan Interior Secretary Enrique Degenhart looks on in front of a portrait of former US President Abraham Lincoln as US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, US, July 26, 2019/ Reuters

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