News Stories (14/05/08)

Thai premier in Burma aid talks (BBC News) - [text online]

Longer terror limit 'unnecessary' (BBC News) - [text online]

Sudan want rebels on terror list (BBC News) - [text online]

Somali sides urged to find peace (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel may ease grip in Tony Blair deal revive West Bank (The Times) - [text online]

Europe's most racist fans come to Britain (and there's not a black player in sight) (The Independent) - [text online]

Burmese junta accused of hoarding food aid and handing out rotten rice (The Independent) - [text online]

Mugabe's Revenge: Halting the Violence in Zimbabwe (Enough Project) - [text online]

Kyrgyzstan: Do Not Return Asylum Seeker to Uzbekistan (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Sudan: Mass Arrests After Rebel Attack Raise Concern (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Roadmap to Autocracy: Burma’s Referendum is a Sham (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 9 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]. For Maps on Cyclone Nargis and Myanmar:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.nsf/doc404?OpenForm&emid=TC-2008-000057-MMR&rc=3

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Tajikistan: Compound crisis OCHA Situation Report No. 8 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Sudan: UN SG 'deeply disappointed' at continuing violence in Darfur (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: Displaced and stranded in need of food, shelter, medicine, water as responders reach more affected by Cyclone Nargis (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Violence affects aid work, UN wants government to assess (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: To air drop aid or not? (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

More than 300 Kenyan refugees return home from Uganda (UNHCR News) - [text online]

UNHCR shelter supplies reach Yangon by air, road (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Denmark's Crown Princess Mary visits UNHCR headquarters (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Security Council slates weekend attacks by Darfur rebels near Sudanese capital (UN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: UN voices concern over politically-motivated violence (UN News) - [text online]

UN official welcomes new economic measures to help Palestinians (UN News) - [text online]

Ban Ki-moon ‘deeply disappointed’ at continuing violence in Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: UN says violence affecting aid, wants to assess (IRIN News) - [text online]

Bosnian Croat commander jailed by UN tribunal to serve time in Italy (UN News) - [text online]

Myanmar faces second catastrophe without more access for aid – UN (UN News) - [text online]

MYANMAR-THAILAND: Migrants rally to help at home (IRIN News) - [text online]

Refugees can resume returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan – UN (UN News) - [text online]

IRAQ: Government negligent in tackling human displacement - MP (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN refugee chief to head to Yemen (UN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Govt raises funds, resettlement ongoing despite hitches (IRIN News) - [text online]

Selected News Sources:

BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Guardian: Special News Reports on Immigration & Refugees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/immigration/0,,1397447,00.html

UNHCR News - http://www.unhcr.org/news.html

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/news/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int

Reuters AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/

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