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Tiny Pacific nation of Palau to take migrants from US in return for aid

Par :Reuters
25 décembre 2025 à 03:08

The island nation will take up to 75 migrants, months after lawmakers rejected a previous request from Washington

Palau will take up to 75 migrants from the US in return for additional aid, after the tiny Pacific Island nation signed a memorandum of understanding with Washington on transfer of third-country nationals.

US deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau spoke to Palau president Surangel Whipps in a call on Tuesday about transferring third-country nationals to Palau, the two sides said in separate statements, after Palau’s lawmakers rejected a previous request from Washington on the matter earlier this year.

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© Photograph: Matthew Abbott/The Guardian

© Photograph: Matthew Abbott/The Guardian

© Photograph: Matthew Abbott/The Guardian

Peng Peiyun, 95, Dies; Official Renounced China’s One-Child Policy

25 décembre 2025 à 02:55
She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.

© via Peng Peiyun Family

Put in charge of imposing birth limits on Chinese couples, Peng Peiyun, a mother herself, worked to relax the policy by appealing directly to the country’s leaders.
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