Thursday 12 June 2008

News Stories (12/06/08)

Shelved asylum centre cost £29m (BBC News) - [text online]

Opponents of 42 days to fight on (BBC News) - [text online]

Top Somali aid worker shot dead (BBC News) - [text online]

Top Bosnian Serb suspect detained (BBC News) - [text online]

Gordon Brown wins crucial 42 day vote thanks to Ulster MPs (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

42 day detention vote was a defeat for liberty (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Gordon Brown buys time with deals on terror vote (The Times) - [text online]

Robert Mugabe's militia burn opponent’s wife alive (The Times) - [text online]

Brown triumphs on terror – but then he is stopped in his tracks (The Independent) - [text online]

Immigration 'boosts the British economy by £1,650 per head' (The Independent) - [text online]

We have to be prepared for the worst, warns Smith (The Independent) - [text online]

Darfur novelist returns personal narratives to the people he left behind (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 30 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Govt bars relief agencies moving food to Zambia after week's aid ban (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Sexual abuse widespread among Congolese deportees from Angola (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

CAR: 1,400 displaced after bandit attacks in the North (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Yemen: Dozens of migrants die in Gulf of Aden (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Anguish in cyclone-hit delta 'overwhelming' - IFRC (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR helps reunite Somali mother and son in UK (UNHCR News) - [text online]

British workers lack skills and drive of east Europe's migrants, says study (The Guardian) - [text online]

Cohesion team will be sent to Norfolk area with big migrant influx (The Guardian) - [text online]

Empowering Women in the Fight Against Gender-Based Violence (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UK: 42-Day Pre-Charge Detention Violates Rights (Huiman Rights Watch) - [text online]

Government's response to the House of Lords Committee' s report on the economic impacts of migration (Home Office: UK Borders Agency) - [text online]. The Government's reply to the House of Lords committee's report on the economic impacts of migration - [The Economic impact of immigration report]. (Source: UK Borders Agency - http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/).

Five weeks after cyclone strikes Myanmar, UN appeal remains under-funded (UN News) - [text online]

Central African Republic: UN says 1,400 villagers displaced by bandits (UN News) - [text online]

Grave violations against children increasing in Somalia, UN report says (UN News) - [text online]

UN refugee chief, Lesotho leader discuss xenophobic attacks in South Africa (UN News) - [text online]

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Looking for answers to xenopobia's rise (IRIN News) - [text online]

DRC: Sexual abuse widespread among fresh wave deportees from Angola (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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