A Selection of News Headlines (12/11/08)

UN appeals for DR Congo back-up (BBC News) - [text online]

Rwanda expels German ambassador (BBC News) - [text online]

Baghdad re-opens 'unity bridge' (BBC News) - [text online]

MPs due to back diversity probe (BBC News) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Situation report: Drought/Food Crisis in Ethiopia - 04 Nov 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 34, 18 - 24 Oct 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: NGO Micro Grant Expanded Humanitarian Response - Bulletin No. 13 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar Cyclone Nargis Bogale Hub Update No. 1 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

200,000 jobs barred to non-European migrants (The Guardian) - [text online]

West Africa conference on refugee protection and international migration (UNHCR) - [text online]

Iraq: Displaced Christians return to Mosul (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: Decreased mass population movements, but continued concern about security situation (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR transports fresh aid supplies for displaced in North Kivu (UNHCR) - [text online]

Palestinians bid goodbye to India, hello Sweden (UNHCR) - [text online]

Burma: Free Activists Sentenced by Unfair Courts (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UN: World Leaders Should Press Saudis on Intolerance (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

200,000 fewer jobs for migrant workers under new rules (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Myanmar: Harsh sentences for 14 dissidents reveal government’s true intentions (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Mexico: Amnesty International adopts five indigenous rights defenders as prisoners of conscience (Amnesty International) - [text online]

There’s no pride in silence: domestic and sexual violence against women in Armenia (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Bhutan Crowns New King: Refugees Barely Remembered (Reuters Alertnet) - [text online]

DR Congo: Fighting Continues (Reuters AlertNet) - [text online]

DRC: Recruitment of child soldiers rising (IRIN News) - [text online]

WEST AFRICA: Remittances set to fall in 2009 (IRIN News) - [text online]

DR Congo displaced threatened by criminal abuses and spread of diseases, warns UN (UN News) - [text online]

Gaza food aid will be cut unless critical supplies allowed in, warns UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: UN cuts back food aid to millions amid serious funding crisis (UN News) - [text online]

Displaced Christians in northern Iraq begin to return home - UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

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