News Stories (23/06/08)

Zimbabwe under pressure over poll (BBC News) - [text online]

Johnson aide quits over race row (BBC News) - [text online]

Boris Johnson aide resigns over 'racist' comment (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Morgan Tsvangirai withdraws from poll, citing Robert Mugabe's reign of terror (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

‘Stop him’ plea to world as Mugabe gets a free run (The Times) - [text online]

The Ukrainian 'genocide by starvation' (The Times) - [text online]

'Mugabe declared war and we will not be part of that war' (The Independent) - [text online]

Resistance snuffed out as Olympic torch tours Tibet (The Independent) - [text online]

Boris aide quits after saying 'go home' to blacks (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Situation report: Drought/Food Crisis in Ethiopia - 20 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: NGO Micro Grant Expanded Humanitarian Response Fund Bulletin No. 8 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Southern Sudan: Abyei displacement - OCHA Situation Report No. 18; 13 - 19 Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: UNHCR demands immediate release of abducted staff (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: UN agencies call for safe access to all communities in Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Suriname: Food and water needed for over 6,500 displaced due to floods (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Refugee Day: The world counts 26m internally displaced persons (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Deafness fear for girl facing deportation (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR demands immediate, unconditional release of Somali staff member (UNHCR Press Release) - [text online]

World Refugee Day Q&A: Australian teen's curiosity about refugees sparks special friendship (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Message by UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres to mark World Refugee Day, 2008 (UNHCR News) - [text online]

World Refugee Day: In a new exhibition, refugee children photograph their own lives (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Millions mark World Refugee Day with theme of "Protection" (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Closure of Highly Skilled Migrant Programme and other work-based categories (Home Office: UK Borders Agency) - [text online]

Ban voices concern after opposition pulls out of violence-ridden Zimbabwe polls (UN News) - [text online]

YEMEN: Humanitarian situation in the north 'deplorable' (IRIN News) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN: Insecurity, uncertainty stop return of Afghan refugees (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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