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Rwanda asylum flight cancelled after 11th-hour ECHR intervention

Good morning. Late last night the government abandoned its plan to send its first flight to Rwanda carrying seven asylum seekers after last-minute intervention from the European court of human rights meant the seven people still scheduled to be on the plane got a legal reprieve. Originally the government planned to have many more asylum seekers on the flight, but by yesterday their removal orders had already been stayed.

Here is our overnight story.

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