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High court temporarily blocks lifting of asylum restrictions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers but the brief order leaves open the prospect that the restrictions in place since the coronavirus pandemic began and have been used to turn back hundreds of...

Crimea showers Syria with wheat, Ukraine cries foul: Reuters

Reuters) - Using a low-profile fleet of ships under U.S. sanctions, Syria has this year sharply increased wheat imports from the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea that Russia annexed from Ukraine, a sign of tightening economic ties between two allies shunned by the West. Wheat sent to Syria from...

New Syria telecom company tied to Iran, investigation finds

A new Syrian telecommunications company could be indirectly tied to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a probe has found. A joint investigation by the NGOs the Organised Crime and Corruption and Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Observatory of Political and Economic Networks,...