Monday 13 October 2008

A Selection of News Stories (13/10/08)

Mugabe 'gives Zanu-PF key posts' (BBC News) - [text online]

Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC threatens to abandon Zimbabwe power deal (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

War photography: why we don't want to see it (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Lords set to inflict crushing defeat on 42-day detention (The Independent) - [text online]

Police pour into Mosul to protect Christians from sectarian killings (The Independent) - [text online]

Fisk 'shocked' by US failure to debate conflict in Israel (The Independent0 - [text online]

Zimbabwe deal on the verge of collapse (The Independent) - [text online]

Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider killed in car crash (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Zero tolerance targets racism (This is Kent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : West Africa: Humanitarian situation report 09 Oct 2008
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 50
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

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

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 50
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR urges donors not to cut aid as recession looms (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Concern about rising numbers of people displaced by LRA (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UN emergency relief fund largely successful, Secretary-General reports (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sierra Leone: Government tightens control of NGOs (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

GPs win care fight for asylum seekers (The Observer) - [text online]

'It is down your street and in your lane' (The Guardian) - [text online]

Another tragedy in Gulf of Aden (UNHCR) - [text online]

Q&A: UNHCR in pursuit of durable solutions for refugees in Tanzania (UNHCR) - [text online]

Annual UNHCR meet ends with call to help world's most vulnerable people (UNHCR) - [text online]. 59th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme - [web site and documentation]

UK Border Agency celebrates six months of success (Home Office Press Releases) - [text online]

Ethiopia: Draft Law Threatens Civil Society (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Pakistan: Still ignoring the stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: Plights of the displaced people (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]

MEDIAWATCH: Political deadlock prolongs Zimbabwe misery (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]

IRAQ: Attacks drive thousands of Christians out of Mosul
(IRIN News) - [text online]

Central African Republic: UN reports mounting human rights abuses (UN News) - [text online]

Ban concerned over Zimbabwe ‘impasse,’ urges parties to reach deal soon (UN News) - [text online]

UN working to ensure security for Darfur’s displaced, says peacekeeping chief (UN News) - [text online]

Ugandan rebels committing grave rights abuses in DR Congo, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

Over 6 million Ethiopians in need of emergency food aid, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

Ban calls on rebels, army to immediately cease fire in eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

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