Saturday, 10 May 2008

News Stories (10/05/08)

Burma votes amid cyclone aid row (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma shuns foreign aid workers (BBC News) - [text online]

Army seeks Senegal ear-choppers (BBC News) - [text online]

Widower loses fight to stay in UK (BBC News) - [text online]

Get tough with Burma, says Clegg (BBC News) - [text online]

Militias 'to rig Zimbabwe poll' (BBC News) - [text online]

'Fifty killed' in Burundi clashes (BBC News) - [text online]

Afghans meet to restore dialogue (BBC News) - [text online]

Bangladesh aid arrives in Burma (BBC News) - [text online]

Gangmaster defends worker claims (BBC News) - [text online]

UN launches appeal as Burma refuses aid (Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

US threatens military aid drops as Burma leaders stall (The Times) - [text online]

While the people plead for food, the junta is handing out TV sets (The Independent) - [text online]

Radical Muslim cleric with links to Bin Laden is freed on bail (The Independent) - [text online]

A New Peace Strategy for Northern Uganda and the LRA (Enough Project) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian Update: Regional Office for the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, Apr 2008
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : DRC Pooled Fund Annual Report 2007 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Burundi: Why peace remains elusive (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan Consortium: Donor countries pledge a total of USD 4.8 billion (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

New report says Islamophobia warps integration efforts (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Tribalism and Powellism infuse TV series (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Nigerians in the UK urge boycott of British Airways (Institute for Race Relations) - [text online]

Filipino loses right to stay after wife dies in NHS blunder (The Guardian) - [text online]

'There has been an intensive effort to deport about 20 terror suspects' (The Guardian) - [audio online]

High court orders release of radical preacher Qatada (The Guardian) - [text online]

Islamist preacher Qatada granted bail (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR sends land aid convoy to Myanmar, airlift from Dubai starts (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR relief supplies on the move to Myanmar (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Romania to set up evacuation transit centre for refugees (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR seeks donor help amid funding shortfall for Iraq operation (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UK: Missed Chance to Charge Sri Lankan Rights Abuser (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Linking Climate Change and Forced Migration (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Southern Chad relatively stable despite influx of refugees, says UN (UN News) - [text online]

BURUNDI: Fighting displaces 20,000 (IRIN News) - [text online]

Romania: evacuation transit centre to be created – UN refugee agency (UN News) - [text online]

Denmark a leader on combating torture, but UN expert has some concerns (UN News) - [text online]

UN appeals for $187 million to aid Myanmar cyclone victims (UN News) - [text online]

Djibouti to work with UN to eliminate female genital mutilation (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: UN, AU envoys alarmed by violence between Government and rebels (UN News) - [text online]

Money running out for Iraqi refugee crisis, warns UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Hunger drives post-election violence, deepens poverty (IRIN News) - [text online]

SENEGAL: Stéphanie Malak, Senegal, "I'd love to return to my village... but I don't dare" (IRIN 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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