A Selection of News Headlines (23/02/2009).

High-skilled foreign migrants entering Britain to halve, Jacqui Smith says (The Times) - [text online]

British intelligence officials 'colluded with torture' of UK citizens abroad (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

David Miliband under pressure over role of British spies in torture of terrorism suspects (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

UK Poles return home (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

British Muslims 'providing Taliban with electronic devices for roadside bombs' (The Daily Telegraph) - [text online]

Coming home: the last Briton in Guantanamo (The Independent) - [text online]

Met no longer institutionally racist – Straw (The Independent) - [text online]

Smith seeks curbs on skilled migrants (The Independent) - [text online]

Iraq faces a new war as tensions rise in north (The Independent) - [text online]

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: A depressing saga of secrets, lies and medieval horrors (The Independent) - [text online]

Leading article: Renewed bloodshed shows peace remains elusive in Iraq (The Independent) - [text online]

Congo, Somalia conflicts make 350,000 new refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Iraq: NGOs call for a new strategy for displaced people (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Foreign workers could be barred from entering UK (The Guardian) - [text online]

Top artists battle visa clampdown (The Guardian) - [text online]

Binyamin Mohamed back in UK next week (The Guardian) - [text online]

UNHCR supports the vulnerable with shelter in northern Uganda (UNHCR) - [text online]

Shedding new light on refugee women's safety in Bangladesh (UNHCR) - [text online]

Iraq: ICRC activities in November and December 2008 (ICRC) - [text online]

AFGHANISTAN: "It's too risky to be an aid worker" (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: Remittances saved the country from collapse (IRIN News) - [text online]

Darfur: African Union-UN blue helmets beef up patrols protecting displaced (UN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN envoy tells Rwandan Hutu militia to leave Congolese soil (UN News) - [text online]

Civil strife, peacemaking often tied to natural resources, UN report says (UN News) - [text online]

UN envoy awaits ''tangible'' outcomes from latest Myanmar visit (UN News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe''s cholera crisis worsens as number of dead, infected climbs – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Global recession threatens human rights of poorest, warns UN rights chief (UN News) - [text online]

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