A Selection of News Headlines (14/01/2009)

UN head set for talks on Gaza (BBC News) - [text online]

Somali joy as Ethiopians withdraw (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza crisis spills onto the web (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza: Israeli troops reveal ruthless tactics against Hamas (The Independent) - [text online]

Campsfield: 'Staff ignored suicide threat' (Oxford Mail) - [text online]

Olmert claims he told Bush to backtrack on UN ceasefire deal (The Independent) - [text online]

UN 'should take over control of Zimbabwe's health system' (The Independent) - [text online]

BNP links to immigration service staff (The Independent) - [text online]

UNHCR concerned about displaced Congolese and continuing LRA attacks (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC president demands greater respect for civilians and humanitarian workers (ICRC) - [text online]

UN Human Rights Council Approves Gaza Inquiry (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

UN official urges combatants in DR Congo to release child soldiers (UN News) - [text online]

Food aid convoy, traversing Sahara, will soon reach refugees in Chad – UN agency (UN News) - [text online]

Over 2,000 lives now lost to Zimbabwe’s worst ever cholera outbreak – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Ethiopian troops leave Somalia prompting UN call for calm and timely presidential poll (UN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Growing discontent in Southern Kordofan (IRIN News) - [text online]

SUDAN: Lingering uncertainties over North-South truce (IRIN News) - [text online]

SOMALIA: Displaced families in dire need (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Stories (13/01/2009)

Ethiopia troops 'leave Mogadishu' (BBC News) - [text online]

Court hears of Bemba 'war crimes' (BBC News) - [text online]

Army pressures Tamil Tiger base (BBC News) - [text online]

Gaza: Israel prepares 'iron fist' strike at Hamas (The Times) - [text online]

Long march of the black British soldier (The Independent) - [text online]

Muslim ministers warn of Gaza backlash (The Independent) - [text online]

Israeli cabinet divided over fresh Gaza surge (The Independent) - [text online]

Gaza clinics destroyed by raids (The Independent) - [text online]

Fares Akram: I rushed home in the ceasefire. Our baby's due tomorrow (The Independent) - [text online]

Biden visits Iraq amid wave of bomb attacks (The Independent) - [text online]

Warlord told his troops to 'traumatise and terrorise' (The Independent) - [text online]

Obama, Africa and Peace (Enough Project) - [text online]

Primark in storm over conditions at UK supplier (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigration minister calls for changes in 'outdated' Geneva convention (The Guardian) - [text online]

A Sense of Belonging (The Guardian) - [text and images online]

From Belsen to Zimbabwe (The Guardian) - [text online]

Immigrants: the perfect recession scapegoat (The Guardian) - [text online]

OPT: 910 dead including 292 children, 4,250 injured, over 28,000 staying in 36 UNRWA emergency shelters in Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Balkans: The continuing struggle of Europe's forgotten refugees (ReleifWeb) - [text online]

Somalia: UN humanitarian fund gives USD 5m to help rising number of refugees in Kenya (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.9 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

DRC: LRA attacks, killings and abductions on increase; thousands more fleeing (UNHCR) - [text online]

Protracted Refugee Situation: The continuing struggle of Europe's forgotten refugees (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: Licensed to kill? (ODI) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC strives to evacuate and treat the wounded despite limited access (ICRC) - [text online]

Israel: End Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis at Once (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Deprived and Endangered: Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Leading rights groups urge Obama to stop Guantánamo proceedings against child soldiers (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Effect of conflict on Gaza’s children ‘devastating,’ says UN rights monitoring body (UN News) - [text online]

UN fund allocates $5 million to help rising number of Somalis fleeing to Kenya (UN News) - [text online]

Gaza: UN official reports horrific hospital scenes of casualties (UN News) - [text online]

Parties at UN-backed DR Congo peace talks focus on joint cessation of hostilities (UN News) - [text online]

UN human rights body to send fact-finding mission to Gaza (UN News) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Ashkelon empties, trauma teams struggle (IRIN News) - [text online]

ETHIOPIA-SOMALIA: Ethiopian troops leave parts of Mogadishu (IRIN News) - [text online]

ZIMBABWE: New year, same old problems (IRIN News) - [text online]

TOGO: Anti-trafficking law alters routes, not flow (IRIN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (12/01/2009).

Israeli raids as reserves move in (BBC News) - [text online]

Islamist rebels clash in Somalia (BBC News) - [text online]

Eritrea group seeks human rights (BBC News) - [text online]

Israel reinforces army before ‘third phase’ of war in Gaza (The Times) - [text online]

Israel takes fighting into Gaza suburbs (The Independent) - [text online]

'Soon we'll have nowhere left to run. Nowhere in Gaza is safe' (The Independent) - [text online]

OPT: Gaza faces large-scale humanitarian crisis as military operation enters 3rd week - OCHA report (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: Tensions running high on the Egypt-Gaza border (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: WFP launches Operation Lifeline Gaza (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Zimbabwe: Cholera - Additional 300 cases, 12 deaths reported (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Field Update on Gaza from the Humanitarian Coordinator 10 - 11 Jan 2009, 17:00 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

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

Would-be citizens face another year's wait (The Guardian) - [text online]

Top wheelchair athlete is facing deportation (The Guardian) - [text online]

Mediterranean Sea arrivals: UNHCR calls for access to protection (UNHCR) - [text online]

Sri Lanka: UNHCR concerned over deteriorating situation in east (UNHCR) - [text online]

More than 50,000 people used smugglers to cross Gulf of Aden last year (UNHCR) - [text online]

More than 50,000 people risked perilous Gulf of Aden crossing last year (UNHCR) - [text online]

Q&A: Builder from Benin volunteers to help UNHCR in Burundi (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: the challenge of reaching civilians in need (ICRC) - [text/audio online]

Failing Europe's Children (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ICC Hearing against Former Vice-President of DR Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Briefing to the UN Security Council on the Situation in Chad and the Central African Republic (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

Cambodia: 30 Years After Fall of the Khmer Rouge, Justice Still Elusive (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ISRAEL-OPT: Gazans have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide (IRIN News) - [text online]

UN agency launches 'Operation Lifeline Gaza' to feed thousands of hungry (UN News) - [text online]

Security Council resolution on Gaza (UN Pulse) - [text online]. The Full Resolution is also available here - [S/RES/1860 (2009)].

Refugee exodus across perilous Gulf of Aden soars by 70 per cent, UN reports (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Headlines (10/01/2009)

Gaza conflict enters third week (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants' (BBC News) - [text online]

Blair warning about Gaza radicals (BBC News) - [text online]

Poles call for anti-hate crime action (The Independent) - [text online]

Egypt: Stop Deporting Eritrean Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

South Africa: End Strain on Asylum System and Protect Zimbabweans (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.7 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Regional Update No. 3 - Cholera Outbreaks in South Africa, 09 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Q&A: Builder from Benin volunteers to help UNHCR in Burundi (UNHCR) - [text online]

More than 50,000 people risked perilous Gulf of Aden crossing last year (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC medics work on (ICRC) - [text online]

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Gaza conflict enters third week (BBC News) - [text online]

Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants' (BBC News) - [text online]

Blair warning about Gaza radicals (BBC News) - [text online]

Poles call for anti-hate crime action (The Independent) - [text online]

Egypt: Stop Deporting Eritrean Asylum Seekers (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

South Africa: End Strain on Asylum System and Protect Zimbabweans (Human Rights Watch) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.7 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA Regional Update No. 3 - Cholera Outbreaks in South Africa, 09 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Q&A: Builder from Benin volunteers to help UNHCR in Burundi (UNHCR) - [text online]

More than 50,000 people risked perilous Gulf of Aden crossing last year (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC medics work on (ICRC) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Stories (09/01/2009)

Red Cross accuses Israel of 'unacceptable' conduct in Gaza (The Times) - [text online]

New immigration code does not fully protect children (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

Remote controls against refugees (Institute of Race Relations) - [text online]

UN demands immediate ceasefire in Gaza Strip (The Independent) - [text online]

Compensation clause in ID card contracts angers Tories (The Independent) - [text online]

Imran defends terror suspects (The Independent) - [text online]

Rocket attacks raise fear of second front for Israel (The Independent) - [text online]

Gaza under fire: Children found next to dead mothers (The Independent) - [text online]

Papal response: Vatican compares Gaza to Nazi camp (The Independent) - [text online]

Peru: Reparations begin but IDPs excluded (IDMC) - [Full Overview (html/pdf)]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.6 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 01 - 08 Jan 2009 (ReleifWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Weekly Situation Report on Cholera in Zimbabwe No. 09, 06 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

High Commissioner Guterres briefs Security Council on global protection challenges (UNHCR) - [text online]

UNHCR chief Guterres briefs UN Security Council on protection challenges (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: life-saving ambulances must be given unrestricted access to the wounded (UCRC) - [text online]

USA: Amnesty International asks Barack Obama to set date for closing Guantánamo (Amnesty International) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-backed Government-rebel talks making progress (UN News) - [text online]

Number of cholera cases in Zimbabwe climbs to nearly 36,000 – UN (UN News) - [text online]

More attention must be paid to underreported conflicts, says top UN refugee official (UN News) - [text online]

Security Council overwhelmingly calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire (UN News) - [text online]

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A Selection of News Stories (08/01/2009)

Tories accuse DFID of trying to usurp powers of Foreign Office (The Independent) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-backed Government-rebel talks enter substantive phase (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

OPT: 'No military solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict', say speakers at UN Security Council (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Central/Eastern Africa: Nearly 11 million IDPs and refugees - OCHA (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Nepal: Small glimmer of hope for forgotten generations of Bhutanese refugees (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OPT: Situation Report on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip No.5 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 42 - 43, 20 Dec 2008 - 02 Jan 2009 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : Colombia: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report No. 40 - 41, 06 - 19 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

ReliefWeb/OCHA Situation Report : OCHA regional update no. 2 - Cholera outbreaks in Southern Africa, 24 Dec 2008 (ReliefWeb) - [text online]

Lathering up success in South Sudan for just US$1,000 (UNHCR) - [text online]

Uprooted Pakistanis find home in ex-Afghan refugee village (UNHCR) - [text online]

Gaza: Military tactics of both sides endangering civilians, says Amnesty International (Amnesty International) - [text online]

Gaza: ICRC demands urgent access to wounded as Israeli army fails to assist wounded Palestinians (ICRC) - [text online]

SUDAN: Great expectations as numbers of Southern returnees on the rise (IRIN News) - [text online]

DRC-SUDAN: Fifty feared dead in rebel attack (IRIN News) - [text online]

DR Congo: UN-backed Government-rebel talks enter substantive phase (UN News) - [text online]

Israel’s daily 3-hour truces in Gaza good first step, but not nearly enough, UN warns (UN News) - [text online]

Number of Bhutanese refugees resettled from Nepal last year tops 8,000 – UN (UN News) - [text online]

Darfur: Ban welcomes US pledge to airlift supplies to UN-African Union force (UN News) - [text online]

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