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Oz tightens visa rules for students
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ASIANAGE on 03 September, 2008 04:31:15
 
Melbourne: Indian students seeking admission in Australia may have to push
harder to get a visa as authorities here have moved India up on the "immigration
risk" scale to check their numbers.
According to the latest official data, there were 65,000
Indian students in Australia in the year to June. Visa applicants from
Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, Jordan, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Romania and Zimbabwe will
also have to now do extra work to show that they were bonafide students. —PTI
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13 migrants found dead aboard boat
Madrid: The interior ministry says 13 people have been found dead aboard a
packed migrant boat near one of Spain’s Canary Islands.
The ministry says there were 46 survivors on the boat that arrived on Wednesday
at Puerto de Arguineguin on the south of Gran Canaria Island. It says the
migrants appeared to be from sub-Saharan countries. The survivors include two
women.
Every year thousands of Africans looking for a better life in Europe attempt
treacherous journeys in overcrowded boats.
—AP
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Iran expels Al Arabiya journalist
Dubai: Iran has expelled a senior journalist of Dubai- based channel Al
Arabiya, apparently in response to its broadcast of a documentary film
highlighting the events leading to the Iranian revolution back in 1979.
Al Arabiya news channel has confirmed that Tehran bureau chief Hassan Fahs has
been declared persona non grata and his media accreditation withdrawn without
any prior notice by the Iranian government.
Mr Fahs said the decision to expel him was the latest in a series of concerted
public campaigns against Al Arabiya. —PTI
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Zia’s son is freed after 18 months
Dhaka: Tarique Rahman, former Bangladesh Premier Khaleda Zia’s influential
elder son and political heir, was on Wednesday released on bail on medical
grounds, more than 18 months after he was detained over a series of graft cases.
Rahman, 43, senior joint secretary of Ms Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party,
was released in line with a court order, deputy inspector-general of prisons
Shamsul Haidar Siddiqui said. The ailing BNP leader will remain at the hospital
for some time for the treatment of his injured spinal cord.
—PTI