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Yvette Cooper under pressure to airlift Tamil asylum seekers to UK
The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, is under mounting pressure to airlift a group of more than 60 Tamil asylum seekersfrom a remote Indian Ocean island to the UK. The Tamils, a mix of single adults and children who are part of family units, have been …