A Selection of News Headlines (21/10/08)

Zimbabwe talks delayed for a week (BBC News) - [text online]

Botswana's Mogae wins $5m prize (BBC News) - [text online]

Mexico blocks Cuban route to US (BBC News) - [text online]

Power summit cancelled after Morgan Tsvangirai is denied passport (The Times) - [text online]

Power-sharing talks postponed as Tsvangirai is denied passport (The Independent) - [text online]

Former Botswana president wins award (The Independent) - [text online]

Welfare groups condemn minister's pledge on migrants (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Quarterly Regional Humanitarian Funding Update, Jul - Sep 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: 'Time to normalise aid relations' after Nargis - ICG report (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Nepal: Red Cross seeks USD 2.33m to help 20,000 flood-affected families (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Daily living conditions of IDPs in Afgooye dismal (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

We have lost people's trust on immigration, minister admits (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR seeking clarification on Yemeni announcements (UNHCR) - [text online]

Sudan: War Crimes Investigations Are Mere ‘Window Dressing’ (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

DR Congo: An Update on North Kivu (Refugees International) - [text online]

SYRIA: Some Iraqis return; thousands more register for food aid (IRIN News) - [text online]

PHILIPPINES: Child soldiers in spotlight as Mindanao battle rages (IRIN News) - [text online]

Nepalese police officers boost UN mission’s presence across Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

Ban urges closer relations between UN and Red Cross, Red Crescent societies (UN News) - [text online]

SOUTH AFRICA: Grace Mashaba, "In trafficking there are many people involved" (IRIN News) - [text olinne]

MAURITANIA: Repatriated refugees returning to Senegal (IRIN News) - [text online]

Lebanon needs stronger laws against human trafficking, reveals UN report (IRIN News) - [text online]

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