A Selection of News Headlines (06/01/2009)

Hamas: Israel has legitimised the killing of its children (The Times) - [text online]

Hamas takes fight to the streets of Gaza (The Independent) - [text online]

Two strikes, and another family lay buried in rubble (The Independent) - [text online]

Tunnels – the secret weapon for Hamas (The Independent) - [text online]

Detainee tries to kill himself (This is Oxford) - [text online]

Refugees find a home on the stage (The Herald) - [text online]

Australia opens off-shore detention centre for migrants (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Australia opens off-shore detention centre (The Times) - [text online]

Australia opens detention centre (BBC News) - [text online]

A random act of Christmas kindness (The Independent) - [text online]

'Lost' foreign children revealed (BBC News) - [text online]

Young refugees go missing from care (Leicester Mercury) - [text online]

Hundreds of immigrants land on Italian island (The Independent) - [text online]

Thousands more migrants reach Italy's shores (The Guardian) - [text online]

UK 'failing' victims of torture (BBC News) - [text online]

Housing conditions may breach human rights (Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture) - [text online]

White working class 'feels ignored on immigration' (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

French U-turn as new Calais shelter for UK-bound immigrants opens after temperatures plunge (Daily Mail) - [text online]

Stardom beckons for high-rise grandmothers (The Herald) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.3 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Zimbabwe: OCHA Monthly Situation Report, Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Humanitarian access increasingly difficult - UNOCHA report (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: 'Security Council should live up to Charter responsibilities to end crisis' - Ban Ki-moon (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Angola shuts off border with DR Congo to avoid Ebola (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: Fresh fighting displaces 80,000, urgent help needed (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Working-class values (The Guardian) - [text online]

Guterres urges adherence to humanitarian principles in Gaza conflict (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR chief urges adherence to humanitarian principles in Gaza conflict (UNHCR) - [text online]

Somalia: ICRC boosts aid (ICRC) - [text online]

Gaza: wounded people dying while waiting for ambulances (ICRC) - [text online]

UN Security Council must not fail civilians caught in Gaza conflict (Amnesty International) - [text online]

IRAQ: Budget cuts threaten IDP housing projects (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: It takes more than a law to stop the cut (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Urgent help needed for thousands displaced in Galgadud (IRIN News) - [text online]

Ban meets with Arab ministers to secure Israel-Hamas ceasefire, to see Bush tomorrow (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: more rapid-response police join UN-African Union peacekeeping force (UN News) - [text online]

UN continues assisting displaced in volatile eastern DR Congo (UN News) - [text online]

Fresh fighting uproots another 50,000 Somalis, compounding present crisis – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Top envoy to Sudan still misrepresented in Khartoum media, says UN mission (UN News) - [text online]

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