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ICRC says opening its Guantanamo files would set dangerous precedent
New York City :: NY :: USA | 13 hours ago
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Guantanamo war crimes tribunal would set a dangerous precedent if it becomes the first to do so, a lawyer for the humanitarian group said on Tuesday. William MacLean told the court. "We visit and speak to people that no one else can speak to," he
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Nobel Prize winner for physics dies in Maine
Saco :: ME :: USA | 20 hours ago
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Maine (AP) A physics professor who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions has died in Maine at age 77. Kenneth Wilson was in the physics department at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.,
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Immigration officer chides UNHCR staff for delaying court process
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 23 hours ago
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The organisation can interfere while the case is still under investigation or before it is brought to the Attorney-General's Chambers," Musa told The Star. He said the department received many complaints about Myanmmar nationals making it look as if
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189 to be charged with illegal entry
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 3 days ago
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Fifty Myanmar nationals are expected to be charged at the Sessions Court in Sepang today for illegal entry into Malaysia. Some 139 others will be charged tomorrow over the same offence, under Section 6(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1959/1963, which
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Ikea's right-on refugee shelter flat-pack
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
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Suggested Topics Move over Billy bookcases and Kassett CD storage, Ikea is launching, as part of World Refugee Day on 21 June, an unlikely addition to its flat-pack range: a refugee shelter...Although touted as an alternative to the tents widely used
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Africa: Celebrities Shine Light On Refugee Dilemma
Geneva :: Switzerland | 5 days ago
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International celebrities are lining up in support of the millions of refugees who have been forced to flee their homes, but harbor dreams of resuming the lives they left behind...Several celebrity videos that show how warfare can change a family's
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Red Cross asked to stop work in Naxal-affected Bijapur
Bijāpur :: India | 5 days ago
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Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district after the government issued an order of suspension. Union and State government, officials told The Hindu , and added that another aid agency, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), had also been asked to negotiate their terms
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The Green Children Announce New Album; Record Release Show
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
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Check out the album exclusively through Amoeba Records in Hollywood. The Green Children's release show will take place at The Roxy Theatre (Los Angeles) on July 20 and all show's proceeds will be donated to The Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica.
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Robert W. Fogel, an innovative and Nobel Prize-winning economic historian, dies at 86
Oak Lawn :: IL :: USA | 6 days ago
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Fogel, a Nobel Prize-winning economic historian who used empirical data in innovative and iconoclastic ways, most notably to dispute longheld assumptions about why slavery collapsed as an institution in the United States, died June 11 at a
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Africa: Fleeing to a New Land, but Finding No Home
Bratislava :: Slovakia | 6 days ago
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The findings are contained in "Where is my home?," a collection of three studies on housing issues and homelessness among refugees and asylum-seekers in Poland, Bulgaria and Slovakia...Only 20 per cent of asylum-seekers and refugees in Poland are
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