Tag: detained-asylum
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Australian asylum ruling paves way for deportation of infants
By Colin Packham and Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia's High Court threw out a challenge to offshore immigration detention camps on Wednesday, clearing the way for the deportation of dozens of infants born in Australia to detained asylum seekers. The court rejected a legal test case brought by an unidentified Bangladeshi woman that challenged…
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Sexually-transmitted Zika case confirmed in Texas
DALLAS (AP) — Health officials on Tuesday reported that a person in Texas has become infected with the Zika virus through sex in the first case of the illness being transmitted within the United States amid the current outbreak in Latin America.