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Photo credit: ABC A Tamil asylum seeker has died after setting himself alight in Australia in protest against Australia’s refugee policy. Daily Mail reports that Mano Yogalingam suffered 80 per cent burns of his body in Melbourne’s Dandenong region on Tuesday. He was rushed to the Alfred Hospital but died later on Wednesday. His death…

Photo credit: Fox News A federal judge in Texas has temporarily halted the new immigration program of President Joe Biden protecting undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation. BBC reports that sixteen Repunlican-led states has sued the Biden administration over 5he program. The “Keeping Families Together” program began last week. It would apply to those…

Photo credit: BBC Canada’s Prime Minister, Mr Justin Trudeau, has urged businesses to hire Canadians as his government announces new restrictions limiting the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers in the country. The government is also considering lowering its annual targets for permanent residency, which would be a potentially major shift in the Liberals’ immigration policy. Speaking…

Photo credit: SBS Australia will limit the enrolment of international students to 270,000 in 2025 as the government looks to control migration, which has continued unabatedly to the extent that there has been an unprecedented increase in home rentals.  Reuters reports that the decision follows a series of actions to end COVID-era concessions since last year. These concessions were…

Photo credit: Arab News A man died after the Greek coastguard opened fire on a vessel carrying migrants off the island of Symi in the eastern Aegean Sea. gCaptain reports that the coastguard reportedly said the man died “probably from a bullet” and that shots were fired at the outboard engine of the migrant boat while…

Photo credit: AP News The Middle East crisis is deepening as the Israeli military and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah launched attacks against each other on Sunday. The Guardian reports that Israel’s military said it carried out further attacks against Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon. This happened hours after it announced a pre-emptive strike against the Lebanese group….

Photo credit: Firstpost India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has made a historic visit to Ukraine. The visit is the first to be paid by an Indian prime minister since Ukraine became independent in 1991. When Modi met Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, he told him he was ready to play a role “as a friend” in bringing…