Tag Archives: immigrants

TRIPOLI: Libyan navy said it rescued 196 illegal immigrants in two separate operations off the country’s western coast. “A rubber boat with 89 illegal immigrants was rescued nearly 75 miles off the coast of Khoms city (some 120 km east of the capital Tripoli),” the navy’s spokesman Ayob Qassem told ...

The US House of Representatives formally condemned Donald Trump on Tuesday for xenophobic attacks on four minority Democratic lawmakers and hostile language targeting immigrants, as the president denied accusations of racism. Top Republican leaders rallied around Trump, but four members of the president’s party voted with the 235 Democrats to ...

MADRID: Spanish Maritime Rescue Services have saved  almost 1,500 people attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Spain in about three days over the weekend. The rescue service agency confirmed Sunday night on its website that they had “rescued 1,181 people in 30 dinghies between yesterday and ...

LONDON: Britain’s foreign spy agency will allow the children of immigrants to join the organization for the first time and will launch its first ever TV advert. Alex Younger, the chief of MI6 known as “C”, is scrapping a rule that new recruits must have two British-born parents and they ...

OSLO: It was already past midnight on Friday when the news arrived in Norway: A day after meeting with Norway’s prime minister in Washington, President Trump told members of Congress that the United States needed more immigrants from places like Norway and fewer immigrants from countries like Haiti. Many in ...

LAHORE: I’m proud to be the first-ever Mayor of London to be making an official visit to Pakistan. As someone of Pakistani heritage, I feel a deep affinity with the country and I’m looking forward to going back. London and Pakistan share a long and unique history that has had ...

LAHORE: Pakistan’s luminary in pop music Ali Zafar held a meet and greet session with the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in Lahore. On this occasion, Zafar equated London with Lahore vis-à-vis socio-cultural openness. Pakistani actor and singer took to Twitter to express his thoughts after what appeared to be ...

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump ended an amnesty protecting 800,000 people brought to the United States illegally as minors from deportation, prompting a political firestorm. The US leader – who had promised to act “with great heart” in the case of the so-called “Dreamers,” many of whom have lived most of ...

WASHINGTON: “Tonight it’s my turn to say thanks,” President Obama said at the opening of his speech. He said he was addressing all Americans and thanking them for making him a “better president and a better man.” He teared up later in his farewell address while thanking his wife for being ...