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Trump Orders Tighter Immigration Vetting After NYC Attack
President Trump has ordered tighter vetting of foreigners travelling to the US, after the alleged New York attacker was identified as an Uzbek man who arrived in America in 2010.
President Trump has ordered tighter vetting of foreigners travelling to the US, after the alleged New York terror attacker was identified as Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old Uzbek green card-holder who arrived in America in 2010.
Also in the programme: Hamas begins handing control of some Gaza border crossings to the Palestinian Authority; and how modern slavery persists in Britain.
(Photo: New York bicycle lane attacker Sayfullo Saipov. Credit: St Charles County Police Dept.)
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