News Stories (16/06/08)

Violence 'spreads to Harare area' (BBC News) - [text online]

Advancing Chad rebels take town (BBC News) - [text online]

Sudan to deploy troops in Abyei (BBC News) - [text online]

Muslim community looks for home (BBC News) - [text online]

Riot alert at immigration centre (BBC News) - [text online]

S Africa mob burns Mozambican man (BBC News) - [text online]

Robert Mugabe says Opposition will never rule Zimbabwe in his lifetime (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

UN hands over power to Kosovo (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe forces soldiers and police to support him in early vote (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Southern Sudan: Abyei displacement - OCHA Situation Report No. 17; 10 - 12 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

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

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 31 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Humanitarian action in Southern Sudan weekly bulletin, week 22, 01 - 07 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Uganda humanitarian update, 01 - 31 May 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Scale-up international aid required in oil rich Abyei as main forces reach peace agreement (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: World governments misleading and failing Iraqi refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Chad rebels attack town, EU troops shield refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: 1.6m vulnerable children threatned by suspension of aid work (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: Global food crisis triggers starvation in North Kivu (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

42 days? Try 18 months (The Guardian) - [text online]

Police use dogs and helicopters to control rioters at detention centre (The Observer) - [text online]

The hell of being an asylum seeker (The Guardian) - [text online]

France must recognise its invisible workforce (The Guardian) - [text online]

World Refugee Day and global statistics 2007 – next week (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

Italy: UNHCR welcomes Italian journalists' charter (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

Celebrations, lights, action: World Refugee Day 2008 (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR welcomes adoption by Italian journalists of ethics code (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Additional changes to application process for application forms for students and marriages to include dependants (Home Office: UK Border Agency) - [text online]

LEBANON: Refugee children chronicle life in camps (IRIN News) - [text online]

Liberia: UN mission builds safe house for victims of sexual violence - [text online]

Hundreds of thousands Zimbabwean children at risk after aid ban – UNICEF (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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