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US will limit number of refugees and give priority to white South Africans
The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits to just 7,500 next year
The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500 – and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans.
The low number represents a dramatic drop after the US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world. Continue reading...
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Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households
New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation
Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families, according to new measures that factor in the impact of soaring rents.
Changes to official measures reveal the neighbourhoods where effectively all children live in low-income households. Of these, 31 were in inner London boroughs with high housing costs such as Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Haringey and Westminster.
You can see where your neighbourhood ranks using our postcode tool here. Continue reading...
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The far-right party of Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders was running neck-and-neck with a pro-European centrist party in a nailbiting election, according to an estimate on Thursday with more than 90 percent of votes counted ➡️ u.afp.com/SeGR
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28 October 1944 | A transport of 1,308 Jewish women prisoners left #Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. They were transferred to KL Bergen-Belsen.
Most probably among them were sisters Anne and Margot Frank who died there of typhus in February 1945.
Most probably among them were sisters Anne and Margot Frank who died there of typhus in February 1945.
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