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Legal appeal to repatriate children from Syria

Published 9 May 2024, 9:23 am
Lawyers for a group of women and children stuck in northeast Syria have made a last-ditch attempt to return them to Australia. Thousands of foreigners are stranded in Syria; the majority of them children. The Federal Court has been hearing a two-day appeal into last year's rejection of the group's bid to come home.
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