Topic: Immigration — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-07 20:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The leader of an Iranian Kurdish nationalist group based in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region has told Al Jazeera that it is “highly likely” that Iranian Kurds will stage a cross-border ground operation into Iran.
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[2026-03-07 18:54 UTC+10:00] [Western Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Andrew Hastie, Basil Zempilas and Warren Mundine were among the guests at the conservative convention, which focused on immigration and housing
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[2026-03-07 18:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Clashes have erupted as Israeli forces attempted a landing operation along the Lebanon-Syria border, with the armed group Hezbollah saying its fighters were involved, according to Lebanese state-run National News Agency (NNA), as this fierce front in the wider regional war launched by the United States and Israel boils over.
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[2026-03-07 18:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Refugees from Burundi are being forcibly evicted from camps as Tanzania destroys their homes and churches, pushing them to return, often after years in exile.
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[2026-03-07 17:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) announced the return of more Filipinos, amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-07 17:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) announced the return of more Filipinos, amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-07 17:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this image from video provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Jack Stevens pulls Ruben Ray Martinez from his vehicle after shooting Martinez at a roadblock in South Padre Island, Texas, on March 15, 2025. (Officer Miguel Leal/Texas Department of Public Safety via AP)
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[2026-03-07 17:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Without an IMF bailout, ‘Pakistan won’t survive’, one economist says. But financial collapse wouldn’t just be Islamabad’s problem
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[2026-03-07 14:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Netizens on Friday and Saturday poked fun at the Bureau of Immigration’s (BI) Facebook post, showing a South Korean citizen arrested in Pampanga, thinking it was something similar to a KPop band.
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[2026-03-07 14:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Clashes were reported in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley after Israeli commandos attempted a landing operation in the mountainous areas near the Syrian-Lebanese border, Lebanese National News Agency said.
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[2026-03-07 13:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MIAMI — US President Donald Trump will meet Saturday with a dozen right-wing leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean to discuss issues facing the region, from organized crime to illegal immigration.
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[2026-03-07 12:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents standoff against demonstrators as tear gas fills the air outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs building during a protest in Portland, Ore., June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
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[2026-03-07 10:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Minneapolis activists, business owners and residents reflect on Kristi Noem’s departure as Homeland Security secretary and explain how an immigration crackdown in Minnesota changed their lives.
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[2026-03-07 10:02 UTC+10:00] [ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Estefany Rodriguez Florez of Nashville Noticias, who had produced reports that were unflattering to ICE, was arrested during traffic stop
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[2026-03-07 09:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears for an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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[2026-03-07 09:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Livestock Farming
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[2026-03-07 08:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Kurdish dissident fighters based in northern Iraq say they are not preparing an immediate cross-border attack on Iran, but would take part in a US-led ground invasion if one were launched.
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[2026-03-07 08:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.S. is imposing visa restrictions on “several senior Rwandan officials for fueling instability” in eastern Congo, the State Department said on Friday, intensifying pressure on the East African country after sanctions announced earlier this week.
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[2026-03-07 05:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has announced it will need an additional 45 days to set up a system to process refund requests for the tariffs recently struck down by the Supreme Court.
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[2026-03-07 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
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[2026-03-07 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul said she warned President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan that she doesn’t want ICE to expand its presence in the Empire State during a high-stakes sit-down Friday.
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[2026-03-07 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: KABUL, March 6 — Pakistani and Afghan troops exchanged fire at dozens of points along their border on Friday as the UN said their week-old conflict has forced the displacement of more than 100,000 people.
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[2026-03-07 02:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. Customs and Border Protection told a U.S. Court of International Trade judge on Friday that it is not currently able to comply with his order to begin refunding about $166 billion collected in reciprocal tariffs imposed last year by President Donald Trump.
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[2026-03-07 02:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Taba, a small resort town on Egypt’s border with Israel, has become a transit hub for Israelis and foreign nationals seeking to leave the country or return home after Israel closed its airspace amid its ongoing war on Iran.
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[2026-03-07 02:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel's military said a projectile fired at its territory on Friday wounded eight soldiers near the Lebanese border.
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[2026-03-07 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Taba, a small resort town on Egypt’s border with Israel, has become a transit hub for Israelis and foreign nationals seeking to leave the country or return home after Israel closed its airspace amid its ongoing war on Iran.
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[2026-03-07 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ISLAMABAD — Pakistani and Afghan forces launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes Friday, and each side claimed to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors — a conflict that Islamabad has declared to be an “open war.”
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[2026-03-07 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Manifestantes con banderas de Georgia y de la UE se congregan en la capital georgiana, Tiflis, el viernes 28 de noviembre de 2025, para conmemorar 365 días de protestas ininterrumpidas contra la decisión del gobierno de suspender las negociaciones para la adhesión a la Unión Europea. (Foto AP/Zurab Tsertsvadze, archivo)
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[2026-03-07 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Afghan Taliban soldiers look toward the Pakistani side, on the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing with Pakistan in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Wahidullah Kakar)
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[2026-03-06 23:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Demonstrators with Georgian and EU flags gather in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, to mark 365 days of non-stop protests against the government’s decision to halt talks on joining the European Union. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze, file)
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[2026-03-06 23:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Leen Shella, center, and Haneen Alatiyat, right, prepare to encourage congregants to vote in the New Jersey primary elections during Ramadan outside the Islamic Center of Passaic County on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
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[2026-03-06 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Finland’s plans to allow nuclear weapons on its territory would force Russia to take countermeasures, the Kremlin warned Friday, casting the proposal as a new threat on its border.
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[2026-03-06 21:37 UTC+10:00] [ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In the early hours of 5 November, ICE agents dragged Juana Avila out of her van, handcuffed and detained her in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Emely, her daughter, soon arrived on the scene and explained her mother had a green card and was carrying it with her. The officers proceeded to handcuff Juana and put her in their SUV.
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[2026-03-06 21:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Azerbaijan is evacuating its diplomats from Iran for their own safety, Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said on Friday, a day after Baku said four Iranian drones had crossed its border and injured four people in the Nakhchivan exclave.
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[2026-03-06 19:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The city was portrayed as an aspirational place to live, but now those who moved there are realising the precarity that comes with being an economic migrant
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[2026-03-06 18:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said villages in southern Lebanon should be cleared to create what he described as a “sterile zone” along the border.
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[2026-03-06 18:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The death toll from Israeli strikes on Lebanon this week has risen to at least 123 people, the Lebanese Ministry of Health says, as a new wave of strikes pounded the country and Hezbollah warned Israeli residents to evacuate towns within 5km (3.11 miles) of their northern border, in one of the fiercest fronts in the wider United States-Israel war on Iran.
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[2026-03-06 14:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth stated that the United States is not planning to take in a “new wave of Middle Eastern refugees” as Israeli and US attacks on Iran continue.
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[2026-03-06 13:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah on Friday issued a warning in Hebrew calling on Israeli residents to evacuate settlements within 5 kilometres of the Lebanon border. The group said the warning comes in response to Israeli military operations in Lebanon.
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[2026-03-06 13:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Following the return of 299 Filipinos from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) announced that 34 more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 on Friday morning.
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[2026-03-06 11:31 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: US President Donald Trump called on overseas Iranian diplomats to request asylum and help shape a "new and better" Iran as the United States and Israel continue a military campaign against the Islamic Republic.
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[2026-03-06 08:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma is President Donald Trump’s nominee for Homeland Security Secretary, following the firing of Kristi Noem. Mullin told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday that he would get DHS “focused on protecting the homeland.”
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[2026-03-06 06:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Critics said Kristi Noem demonised immigrants and promoted an immigration enforcement strategy that targeted non-criminal, working immigrants and families. Source: AAP / J. Scott Applewhite/AP
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[2026-03-06 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Students Visa hosted EduFest 2026, Sri Lanka’s Premier Study Abroad Expo, held at Hilton Colombo recently.
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[2026-03-06 06:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and said he will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.
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[2026-03-06 06:04 UTC+10:00] [Homeland Security] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Senator Markwayne Mullin will replace Noem, one of the top US officials overseeing the crackdown that saw two US citizens killed
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[2026-03-06 06:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Noem’s departure caps a tumultuous tenure overseeing immigration enforcement tactics that have been met with protests and lawsuits, as well as a wave of criticism over the response to deadly Texas floods.
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[2026-03-06 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that escalating Israeli attacks and threats in Lebanon are forcing more people to flee their homes.
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[2026-03-06 03:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Local authorities in western Iran have firmly denied reports that armed Kurdish groups had crossed into the country from Iraq’s Kurdistan region, insisting the border is under complete control. Meanwhile, Tehran has reportedly carried out “preemptive strikes” on opposition bases in northern Iraq.
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[2026-03-06 01:00 UTC+10:00] [ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Only one person working job that today would be called ‘deportation officer’ has died from act of violence, Guardian review shows
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