Tuesday, 20 January 2009

A Selection of news Headlines (20/01/2009).

Gaza rebuild 'to cost billions' (BBC News) - [text online]

Crucial Zimbabwe talks collapse (BBC News) - [text online]

Sharia police block women's rally (BBC News) - [text online]

Wide rifts on show at Arab summit (BBC News) - [text online]

Scale of Gaza destruction emerges (BBC News) - [text online]

Bush shoe man in Swiss asylum bid (BBC News) - [text online]

Thailand to tackle migrant claims (BBC News) - [text online]

British Muslims 'went on reconnaissance' for July 7 attacks (The Times) - [text online]

Gaza was demolished in three weeks. Rebuilding it will take years (The Independent) - [text online]

Black staff sacked by Refugee Council win discrimination case (The Independent) - [text online]

Church may ban BNP members (The Independent) - [text online]

The Big Question: Should the charge of 'institutional racism' in the police no longer apply? (The Independent) - [text online]

Gazans return to mourn their dead and salvage their lives (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: Posturing and laughter as victims rot (The Independent) - [text online]

Rafah, a landscape scarred by Israel's war (The Independent) - [text online]

'My daughters, they killed them': Doctor shows Israelis horror of war (The Independent) - [text online]

Hamas ceasefire brings uneasy peace to Gaza (The Independent) - [text online]

Capital divided by race is a symbol of Obama's task (The Independent) - [text online]

Untold stories lie buried in the rubble (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe: Talks are last chance for opposition (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Welcome but fragile, this ceasefire must be only a start (The Independent) - [text online]

Robert Fisk: So, I asked the UN secretary general, isn't it time for a war crimes tribunal? (The Independent) - [text online]

Mary Dejevsky: My walk on the racial front line in DC (The Independent) - [text online]

British Jews attacked for pro-Gaza solidarity (The Independent) - [text online]

Footballers win exemption from English tests (The Independent) - [text online]

'British handcuffs, the handcuffs of freedom'By Jeremy Seabrook (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Missteps on the LRA in Uganda (Enough Project) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Nepal Situation Overview Issue No. 39, 15 Dec2008 - 15 Jan 2009
(text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Field Update on Gaza from the Humanitarian Coordinator 17 - 18 Jan 2009 as of 17:00
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.13
(ReliefWeb) - [text online]

UK Borders Act 2007 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Human Rights Act 1998 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004 (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (The Guardian) - [text online]

UK-Irish travellers to face passport checks (The Guardian) - [text online]

Thailand: UNHCR requests access to Rohingya boat people (UNHCR) - [text online]

DRC: Continuing LRA rampage displaces more Congolese (UNHCR) - [text online]

Greece's infrastructure struggles to cope with mixed migration flow (UNHCR) - [text online]

Fifteen drown in Gulf of Aden amid surge in people smuggling to Yemen (UNHCR) - [text online]

Thailand: Stop systematic torture in southern counter-insurgency (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: Civilians continue to suffer despite hopes for imminent cease-fire (ICRC) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: massive displacement of civilians amid escalating conflict (ICRC) - [text online]

DR Congo: LRA Slaughters 620 in ‘Christmas Massacres’ (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Immigration legal aid lawyer of the year is a children’s immigration specialist (Refugee Council) - [text online]

SUDAN: Western Equatoria struggling with influx of refugees and IDPs
(IRIN News) - [text online]

IRAQ-SYRIA: Slow resettlement for Palestinian-Iraqi refugees
(IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: UN warns of humanitarian catastrophe if Darfur fighting continues
(IRIN News) - [text online]

SRI LANKA: Rising concerns over thousands trapped in conflict areas
(IRIN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe receives $5 million boost from UNICEF in fight against cholera outbreak (UN News) - [text online]

Envoy hails progress in UN-backed talks to halt violence in eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

With 30,000 civilians at risk, UN urges halt to renewed clashes in South Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

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