News Stories (09/07/08)

G8 to move against Mugabe allies (BBC News) - [text online]

No bail for Khmer Rouge minister (BBC News) - [text online]

Gordon Brown shock tactics force a UN showdown on Robert Mugabe (The Times) - [text online]

Storm over Tory peer Lord Dixon-Smith’s ‘nigger in woodpile’ remark (The Times) - [text online]

Former head of MI5 says 42-day detention plan is 'unworkable' (The Independent) - [text online]

Huge rise in number of racist attacks (The Independent) - [text online]

Pledge to double aid for poor is renewed (The Independent) - [text online]

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

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Somalia Humanitarian Overview Vol. 1 Issue 6 - Jun 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Israel hindering Palestinian aid effort - officials (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Myanmar: IFRC revised emergency appeal seeks USD 72.5m (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Hundreds of families displaced by fighting in Baidoa (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Suffer the children (The Guardian) - [text online]

EU agrees to keep migrants out (The Guardian) - [text online]

Proposed EU Pact on immigration and asylum (UNHCR Briefing Note) - [text online]

As food prices rise, refugees in Jamaica look to their own back yard (UNHCR News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Hundreds of families displaced by fighting in Baidoa (IRIN News) - [text online]

Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in Germany: prosecutor (AFP) - [text online]

International Criminal Court suspends release of Congolese rebel leader (UN News) - [text online]

Chad: UN mission trains police officers to protect refugees (UN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe crisis poses challenge not just to Africa but to the world – Migiro (UN News) - [text online]

European Union must ensure rights of refugees and asylum-seekers, says UN (UN 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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