Friday 14 November 2008

A Selection of News Headlines (14/11/08)

Bin Laden 'cut off from al-Qaeda' (BBC News) - [text online]

Anti-terror police 'need Muslims' (BBC News) - [text online]

Congo refugees 'have to be moved' (BBC News) - [text online]

Mugabe to name ministers 'soon' (BBC News) - [text online]

UN 'has run out of Gaza food aid' (BBC News) - [text online]

The Price of Prevention - Getting Ahead of the Global Crises (Enough Project) - [press release]. See also, the [report] and [podcast].

Aids orphan choir hit by red tape (The Independent) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Iraq: Humanitarian Update No. 2, Oct 2008
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Pakistan: WFP concerns over rise in looting of humanitarian supplies in the northwest (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: New influx brings total of Congolese refugees in Uganda to over 12,000 (ReleifWeb) - [text online]

Afghanistan: Unexploded ordnance poses threat to returnees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Israel blocks Gaza aid after rocket attacks (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: Cautious optimism over Darfur ceasefire call (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DR Congo: War brings hunger to breadbasket (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UNHCR flies vital shelter aid to North Kivu for displaced Congolese (UNHCR) - [text online]

Somalia: ICRC provides relief for half a million people faced by life threatening food shortages (ICRC) - [text online]

Home Office launches counter terrorism competition for design students (Home Office Press Release) - [text online]

Spain: No global exception when investigating the crimes of the past (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Germany and Austria: Press Turkmenistan on Rights (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

EU: Set Human Rights Benchmarks for Russia (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Continued border closures force UN to suspend food aid to 750,000 Gazans (UN News) - [text online]

UN reports second day of relative calm in strife-torn eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

Religion can never justify terrorism or killing of innocents, General Assembly declares (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: Egyptian troops arrive to boost strength of joint UN-African Union force (UN News) - [text online]

Top UN envoy urges Iraq to protect minorities after latest killing in Mosul (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: Egyptian troops arrive to boost strength of joint UN-African Union force (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: Ban welcomes Sudanese ceasefire, plan to disarm militias (UN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Cautious optimism over Darfur ceasefire call
(IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Violence returns as talks flounder
(IRIN News) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: Unexploded ordnance poses threat to returnees
(IRIN News) - [text online]

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