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Britain’s plan to deport asylum seekers to the East African nation was put on pause on human rights grounds. Source link

Some activists banged the outer fence of the immigration centre and people inside the compound sounded like they were chanting back. In unison with protesters, people inside appeared to chant: “No Rwanda.” The plans would see some people who have entered the UK illegally flown to Rwanda to seek asylum …

Lawyers are seeking an injunction to prevent asylum seekers being sent to East Africa by British government wanting to stem people-smuggling and flow of migrants. They say assurances about Rwanda’s ability to offer protection were false. Source link

The 29-year-old Scot, who was born in Rwanda, said he had been keeping the news secret since he was cast in February. Gatwa will play the 14th incarnation of the Time Lord. Source link

Matthew Rycroft, the permanent secretary for the Home Office, said the UK government’s push to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda may not deter enough migrants to make the effort cost effective. Source link

Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War II then rose to become the first female US secretary of state and, in her later years, a pop culture feminist icon, died on Wednesday at the age of 84, her family said.Albright, a …

The Biden administration has formally determined that violence committed against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar’s military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, US officials said, a move that advocates say should bolster efforts to hold the junta that now runs Myanmar accountable.Secretary of State Antony Blinken will announce the …

Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world – even before the Taliban swept to power last August. That is according to a so-called World Happiness report released ahead of the UN-designated International Day of Happiness on Sunday.The annual report ranked Afghanistan as last among 149 countries surveyed, with a …

German vaccine maker BioNTech, which developed the first widely approved shot against Covid-19 together with Pfizer, unveiled plans on Wednesday to establish manufacturing facilities in Africa that would boost the availability of much-needed medicines on the continent.The modular design presented at a ceremony in Marburg, Germany, consists of shipping containers …