France grants residency to some 7,000 illegals -minister
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France has selected nearly 7,000 illegal  immigrants out of 30,000 applicants to benefit from a special  one-off measure granting them permanent residency, Interior  Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday.
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France plans to offer financial incentives to more immigrants, especially from Africa, to return home voluntarily.
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The French National Assembly early Thursday adopted a government bill tightening the rules for immigrants wanting to join their families in France and giving the nod to DNA tests to prove family ties.
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Jewish immigration to Israel from France - where anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise - has reached its highest level in more than three decades, immigration officials said Tuesday.
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Societe Generale  Chairman  Daniel Bouton told a newspaper the French bank would overcome  its "shock" at having discovered an alleged $7 billion euro  (10.3 billion pound) internal fraud.
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Israel will grant citizenship to some of the estimated 300 refugees from Sudan's violence-ridden Darfur region who have already arrived here, Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit said Wednesday.
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Facing a rapidly growing backlog of immigration cases, the Bush administration will grant permanent residency to tens of thousands of legal U.S. immigrants without first completing required background checks against the FBI's investigative files.
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Veterans from former French colonies _ many of whom fought to free France from the Nazis during World War II _ will soon be granted better pensions, ending decades of inequality, the defense minister said ...Comment
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Up to 600,000 illegal immigrants would be eligible for amnesty.
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Liberia's government finds more than 7,000 workers on its payroll who do not exist, but vows to improve checks.
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The Bush administration plans to allow about 7,000 Iraqi refugees into the country over the next year, compared with 463 allowed in since the war began.
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7,000 immigrants are expected before year end. About 2,000 will go to Michigan.
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France is stepping up its local contacts in Iraq over the mysterious disappearance of a French reporter and her translator in the country, the prime minister said.
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China introduces new laws allowing foreigners to apply for longer residency rights.
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Guangdong police have started accepting permanent residence applications from foreigners, Shenzhen Daily reported on Monday. The provincial public security department had issued
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More than 1,300 illegal  immigrants from Africa land in Spain's Canary Islands over the weekend.
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The number of anti-Semitic attacks in France has more than doubled over the past year, with most committed for vague reasons rather than ideology, France's interior minister said in an interview published Friday.