Sweden tightens asylum rules for Iraqis
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Sweden is tightening asylum rules that made it the top European destination for refugees from Iraq, immigration officials said Friday.
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Iraq closed its borders with Iran and Syria as U.S. and Iraqi troops tightened their grip on Baghdad on Thursday, setting up more checkpoints that stopped and searched even official convoys for weapons.
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About 12,000 Iraqi refugees will be admitted into the United States over the next year as measures to speed up the process begin to take effect, government officials said yesterday.
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Syria will allow Iraqis living in the country to cast ballots for the election in Iraq on 30 January.
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Britain's Foreign Office updated its travel advice for Iraq, warning its nationals that they could be targeted by kidnappers in the north of the war-torn country.
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Sweden has overturned an expulsion order against a former Egyptian terror suspect handed over to American agents and deported from Sweden in 2001, the Justice Department said Thursday.
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Sweden has evacuated its embassyin the Cote d'Ivoire amid warnings of more violence, Radio Sweden reported on Tuesday.
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The number of Iraqis returning to their country after fleeing abroad is growing, with more than 46,000 people coming home last month, an Iraqi government spokesman said
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Iraq closed its borders with Iran and Syria as U.S. and Iraqi troops tightened their grip on Baghdad on Thursday, searching neighborhoods and setting up checkpoints that stopped and searched even official convoys.
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Iraq has closed its borders with Iran and Syria as part of a security crackdown aimed at stopping foreign fighters and weapons entering the country, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said on Thursday.
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The US says Syria has agreed to tighten its border with Iraq to stop militants crossing the border.
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Swedish immigration officials say the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm has been issuing thousands of false identity documents.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that countries involved in the Iraq war have a "moral obligation to do more" to accommodate the growing number of Iraqis fleeing their homeland.
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Swedish police on Thursday revised downwards the number of Swedes missing after the December 26 Asian tsunami to 523 from 569 a week ago, indicating that the latest figure could be close to final.
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A scenic Swedish town of 60,000 people last year took in twice as many Iraqi refugees as the entire United States, almost all of them Christians.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden has evacuated its embassy in the Ivory Coast and sent an airplane to aid other foreign citizens still trying to flee violence in the African country, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 17 -- A Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog said Monday that police have taken him to a secret location and told him he cannot return home because of a death threat from insurgents in Iraq.