News Stories (20/03/08)

China steps up Tibetan crackdown (BBC News) - [text online]

New 'Bin Laden tape' threatens EU (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe rejects free poll fears (BBC News) - [text online]

Removed Ghanaian dies of cancer (BBC News) - [text online]

Bail denied for Khmer Rouge head (BBC News) - [text online]

Nepal action on Tibet 'excessive' (BBC News) - [text online]

Bin Laden in video threat to EU over cartoons (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe opponents face violent attacks ahead of elections (The Independent) - [text online]

Foreign Office minister calls on Olympians to speak out (The Independent) - [text online]

Deported Ghanaian dies of cancer (The Guardian) - [text online]

From Baghdad to Britain (The Guardian) - [text online]

Somali refugee community takes lead in local integration in South Africa (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Kites and spirits soar at UNHCR spring festival in Pakistan (UNHCR News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 22, 01 - 17 Mar 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 27 Feb - 04 Mar 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Bin Laden threatens Europe as President Bush claims victory in Iraq (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

TIMOR-LESTE: IDPs begin to return home as security improves (IRIN News) - [text online]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Humanitarian satellite channel to be launched by end of 2008 (IRIN News) - [text online]

KENYA: State failed to protect citizens during unrest - UN report (IRIN News) - [text online]

Central African Republic: Chadian Army Attacks, Burns Border Villages (allafrica.com) - [text online]

Afghanistan must do more to address impunity, advance human rights – UN (UN News) - [text online]

UN Population Fund joins in Congolese campaign against sexual violence (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN mission says Katanga conditions still suitable for refugee returns (UN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

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