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Venezuela arrests eight Colombian "paramilitaries"
Caracas :: Venezuela | 10 days ago
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Venezuela said on Friday it had arrested eight Colombians and two local residents suspected of paramilitary activities on the border between the two feuding South American neighbors. The arrests in Venezuela's western Tachira state were the latest incident...
Tags: Venezuela, hunger strike
AU imposes sanctions on Guinea
Conakry :: Guinea | 10 days ago
Credibility The AU had previously threatened sanctions if Camara, who promised to rein in the army and transfer power to civilian rule through elections, refused to opt out of a poll set for January. A list of persons targeted by the sanctions is to be sent to the...
Tags: Guinea, military junta, France, hunger strike
Navy checking on distressed boat
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 22 days ago
Credibility There are reports that 270 people are aboard the boats which have struck trouble. A spokesman for Australian Customs and Border Protection says search and rescue authorities in Indonesia are coordinating rescue operations. He says Australia has offered...
Tags: Indonesian, asylum seekers, Australian Maritime Safety Authority, hunger strike
PM seeks Jakarta pact on asylum-seekers
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 23 days ago
Credibility The Weekend Australian says a massively expanded Australian aid package to fund detention centres and training and broader intelligence-sharing between the two nations is at the heart of Mr Rudd's sweeping plan. The Prime Minister wants a new bilateral...
Tags: Indonesian, asylum seekers, Australia, hunger strike, sri lankan
Politician back-pedals on asylum 'scum' slur
Sydney :: Australia | 24 days ago
Credibility A Northern Territory politician has been forced to explain a parliamentary gaffe in which he referred to asylum seekers as "scum". The Opposition's infrastructure spokesman, Adam Giles, was voicing his concerns about vacant Alice Springs demountables...
Tags: asylum seekers, hunger strike, ethnic tamils, Indonesian, Australia
Asylum seekers may stay in Indonesian hotels
Sydney :: Australia | 24 days ago
Credibility Some of the 260 Sri Lankan asylum seekers detained in Indonesia may end up in hotels because detention centres there are too full, an immigration official says. The ethnic Tamils are refusing to leave their wooden boat in Merak Harbour after being intercepted...
Tags: asylum seekers, Australian, hunger strike, sri lankan, Indonesian Navy, Kevin Rudd, lankan asylum, prime minister, tamil asylum, minister kevin
2,000 asylum seekers stopped by Indonesia
Sydney :: Australia | 25 days ago
Credibility The Federal Government says the Indonesian government has helped to stop up to 2,000 asylum seekers who had planned to reach Australian waters. Earlier this week it was revealed Indonesian authorities had intercepted a ship carrying 260 Sri Lankan asylum...
Tags: asylum seekers, Indonesian, sri lankan, Australia, Sri Lanka, hunger strike, prime minister, Kevin Rudd, illegal immigration, tamils asylum
Hunger strike: Damir's suicide note
Belgrade :: MT :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Damir Dokic's 15-month jail term for threatening to blow up the Australian ambassador to Serbia was confirmed at retrial at Ruma Magistrates Court last month. On Tuesday, a magistrate in Belgrade gave a suspended six-month jail term to Sinisa Vucinic,...
Tags: Damir Dokic, Serbian, Jelena Dokić, hunger strike, Belgrade, Australian, Bosiljka Djukic
Camp Ashraf
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 month ago
Credibility Up to 11 inmates are reported to have been killed and hundreds wounded...US forces had taken control of the camp after the 2003 invasion of Iraq...A leftist group, they launched attacks not just on the clerical leaders of Iran but on their predecessor,...
Tags: Iraqi, Camp Ashraf, hunger strike
Gadhafi welcomed in Venezuela
Caracas :: Venezuela | about 1 month ago
Credibility Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi was warmly welcomed in Venezuela days after slamming Israel in a speech. Gadhafi was feted in Venezuela this week, just days after slamming Israel at the United Nations General Assembly in a strange rant that included linking...
Tags: Venezuela, ask interpol, Interpol, Muammar Gadhafi, hunger strike
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