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Family Of Migrants Denied Flight To U.S. Will Return To Iraq

CAIRO (AP) - Cairo airport officials say five U.S.-bound Iraqi migrants from one family who have been prevented from boarding an EgyptAir flight to New York's JKF airport will return to Iraq.

They said the five will spend Saturday night at Cairo airport and leave for Irbil, capital of Iraq's Kurdish region, Sunday morning. A sixth U.S.-bound migrant, a Yemeni national, left the airport to return to Cairo, where he resides.

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