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By Rachel Conner-Hill echorachelc Chief Reporter (Tees Valley & North Yorkshire) Fran Wood, of Darlington Assistance for Refugees A GROUP providing support for refugees in the North-East has spoken out about concerns about how asylum seekers could be treated under proposed changes to immigration law. Darlington Assistance for Refugees (DAR) has spoken out against the proposed changes, which the Government says will better protect those in need of asylum, deter illegal entry into the UK and make it easier to remove people from the UK. But it has been criticised by campaigners who are urging the government to rethink the proposed policy shift and are concerned about changes to how people are treated depending on how they arrived in the UK. ....
1/1 A SYRIAN doctor who avoided deportation when the pandemic struck has been given leave to remain in the UK and hopes soon to begin administering the vaccine. Dr Bashar Al Hana, 36, has been living in Darlington since March 2019 after spending seven years seeking sanctuary in numerous countries as he cannot return to Syria because of the civil war. He was due to be deported in March 2020 after his initial application for asylum was rejected, but his flight out of the country was cancelled when the country was plunged into the first lockdown, and he was left destitute. He was taken in Fran and Martin Wood of the Darlington Assistance for Refugees group and his case was taken up by Darlington MP Peter Gibson. ....
Threatening that if the united states continues its strikes against the islamic state they will strike america in washington, d.c. joining us now from london co-author of isis inside the army of terror and here in new york, ran wood, contributing editor for the atlantic. one thing you ve written over the weekend you questioned whether the islamic state actually did authorize this ahead of time or whether they just whether it was one of those things where people may have inspired did it and they kind of went along with it. yeah, so far the model for attacks on the west has been an inspirational model for the islamic state. that is, we haven t seen direct connections where we ve seen planning, funding, provision of weapons. instead it s been a matter of saying, by the islamic state, yes, go ahead. we bless you if you have these kinds of activities. now we don t really know what s happened yet but it could very well be a centrally planned, funded, and provisioned attack. you saw ....