Tuesday 13 May 2008

News Stories (13/05/08)

Search for China quake survivors (BBC News) - [text online]

UN frustrated at Burma response (BBC News) - [text online]

US court allows apartheid claims (BBC News) - [text online]

Horta wants UN to stay in E Timor (BBC News) - [text online]

Burma: disease fears realised in cyclone aftermath (The Times) - [text online]

First US aid flight arrives in Burma as new storm looms (The Independent) - [text online]

Frantic search for thousands trapped by Chinese quake (The Independent) - [text online]

Al-Sadr ceasefire allows troops to enter Shia slum (The Independent) - [text online]

Opinion divided over air drops (The Independent) - [text online]

Pole who saved 2,500 children from the Nazis dies (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Note on Emergencies: Latin America & The Caribbean - Year 2, Issue 56 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Kenya: OCHA Situation Report No. 1 - Focus on Karamoja, 01 Jan - 30 Apr 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Schools can do more to help refugee children integrate - a new report by the Refugee Council (Refugee Council) - [text online]. For a copy of the report go to: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/inclusiveschools

RC highlights independent support for right to work (Refugee Council) - [text online]. You can access the report here - http://www.vulnerableworkers.org.uk/files/CoVE_short_report.pdf

Launch of 'Let them work' (Refugee Council) - [text online]

China: Official at quake epicenter appeals for emergency aid (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Uganda: Humanitarian community concerned by forced removal of lone children from Kampala streets (reliefWeb) - [text online]

Lebanon: Aid agencies hampered by threat of further violence (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar pipeline opening up - IFRC (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Aid airlifts land, government now opens to UN to distribute relief goods (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Rebel raid stirs possible war with Chad (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR trucks arrive in Yangon with shelter aid for 10,000 people (UNHCR Press Release) - [text online]

Myanmar: UNHCR airlift, trucks reach Yangon with shelter supplies (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

High Commissioner mission to Yemen (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: Call for food aid from conflict-hit Helmand Province (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Watermelons, conflict and climate change (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN Closes Afghan Refugee Centre (Afghanistan Conflict Monitor) - [text online]

UN agency suspends returns of Afghan refugees (UN News) - [text online]

Talks begin between Somali Government and opposition group – UN (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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