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Day: January 9, 2019

MPs force Brexit plan B on PM
9Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

MPs force Brexit plan B on PM

    Theresa May will be obliged to present MPs with a new Brexit plan within three days if her current proposal is voted down next week, after a procedural amendment to the plan’s progress through the Commons was passed amid chaotic scenes. The amendment to the business motion for the plan, drawn up by the Conservative former attorney general Dominic Grieve, gives May the deadline to put forward new her plans if she loses the vote, as many expect, next Tuesday. The amendment was passed by 308 votes to 297 following stormy scenes which saw a series of Conservative MPs castigate the Speaker, John Bercow, for allowing the amendment. Tory MP Ken Clarke, who backed the amendment, said those who did not like the amendment should “don a yellow jacket and go outside” to join s...
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Afghan trafficker boasts of getting 300 migrants into UK
9Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Afghan trafficker boasts of getting 300 migrants into UK

    A people smuggler has boasted of getting 300 migrants across the Channel to the UK. The Afghan fixer named Anam told undercover reporters that he helps set up speedboat crossings to the UK for £6,000 per person in a speedboat. He said he can also set up the crossing in a riskier three-metre dinghy for the lower price of £2,500. But he claimed he didn’t take the payments himself and instead they had to be made via family or friends to an Indian restaurant in west London. He said he could virtually make a guarantee of residency in Britain to would-be migrants because the police ‘never send you back’ even if they ‘catch you’. Anam, 28, is based in Calais and said he has already been booted out of the UK twice. Using a British mobile phone to run the illegal operati...
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Saudi teen who fled family granted refugee status by UN
9Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, Featured

Saudi teen who fled family granted refugee status by UN

     An 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family and refused to leave her Bangkok hotel room is a refugee, a UN agency has said. The case of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun has been referred to Australia for possible of asylum. In a brief statement, Australia said it would consider the request in the usual way, as it does with all UNHCR referrals. Ms Al-Qunun said she had renounced Islam known as apostasy and punishable by death in Saudi Arabia and that she feared her family would kill her as a result. She arrived in Thailand on Saturday on a layover between Kuwait and Australia, but was detained by the Thai authorities. The Australian government has previously stated that Ms Al-Qunun will not be given special treatment due to the high profile nature of her case. Nonethel...
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