Tag: immigration
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Anthony Albanese says asylum seeker boat arrival ‘unfortunate’ but government not to blame
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the arrival of a boat carrying several asylum seekers to Western Australia’s far north coast is “unfortunate” but not a failure of Operation Sovereign Borders. The federal opposition has gone on the offensive over the arrival of 39 men who say they travelled by boat from Indonesia to remote communities in WA’s north-west on…
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Morocco intercepts over 1,100 migrants near Spanish exclaves
The Moroccan army said it intercepted more than 1,100 migrants attempting to reach the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on New Year’s Eve. Overnight Sunday to Monday (31 December to 1 January), more than 1,110 people were detained in the cities of Nador, M’diq and Fnideq during multiple operations carried out by the army…