Australia granted humanitarian visas to five Iranian women footballers who sought protection during the AFC Women’s Asian Cup, after fears they could face punishment if forced to return home.
"Now there are as many as more than 5,000 people took refuge in two Mizoram villages along the Myanmar border," the IGP said, adding that many got injured.
The 67-year-old is due to stand trial in the UK charged with an offence of encouraging terrorism with a speech relayed to his followers in Pakistan a few years ago.
According to reports, the former vice-president of Maldives was planning to seek 'the protection of India and had initiated the process of claiming asylum'.
US media quoted police as saying the sisters had indicated that they would rather harm themselves than return to Saudi Arabia.
An 18-year-old Saudi woman who said she was abused by her family and feared for her life if deported back home left Thailand on Friday night for Canada, which has granted her asylum.
Australia gave its strongest hint yet on Wednesday that an 18-year-old Saudi woman in Bangkok would be granted humanitarian asylum, despite efforts by Riyadh and her family to force her return home.
Donald Trump issued the proclamation earlier this month as a matter of what he called national security as a US-bound caravan of Central American migrants made its way through Mexico toward the US border.
Australian authorities will repatriate asylum-seekers who are found not to be refugees in the Manus Island detention centre this year,…
Taiwan said on Tuesday that it was reviewing a request for political asylum by a Chinese tourist, reportedly an anti-corruption activist…
