News Stories (25/07/08)

Zimbabwean peace talks begin amid talk that a deal is close (The Times) - [text online]

Ministers 'duped by US' over Guantanamo inmate's torture claim (The Independent) - [text online]

Karadzic 'stole identity of sniper victim' (The Independent) - [text online]

Zimbabwe talks focus on power sharing structure (The Independent) - [text online]

Serbian press lionises the cunning fugitive, not the criminal (The Independent) - [text online]

Victory for Southall Black Sisters (IRR News) - [text online]

Media hysteria around new book (IRR News) - [text online]

IRRESOLUTION: The U.N. Security Council on Darfur (Enough Project) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Myanmar: Cyclone Nargis OCHA Situation Report No. 42 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 23 Jul 2008 - Special focus (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 28, 10 - 16 Jul 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

New Labour's bare-knuckle fight against asylum seekers (The Guardian) - [text online]

Czech mission to Malaysia paving way for landmark resettlement programme (UNHCR News) - [text online]

Rwanda: Progress in Judicial Reforms Falls Short (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Destitution still happening in Leeds (Refugee Council) - [text online]

Destitution inquiry (Joesph Rowntree Charitable Trust) - [text online]. Documents from the JRCT:

• Press release: More Destitution in Leeds (98KB)
• Not Moving On (research summary) (83KB)
• More Destitution in Leeds (full research report) (1.18MB)

GLOBAL: Humanitarian futures (part one) - "exponential complexity (IRIN News) - [text online]

KENYA: Wangui Mwangi Theuri: "In which Kenya will we stay?" (IRIN News) - [text online]

Egyptian military engineers join UN-AU mission in Darfur (UN News) - [text online]

Secretary-General to appoint South African justice as next UN human rights chief (UN News) - [text online]

African Great Lakes officials at UN gathering on women’s rights research centre (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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