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Assam: Violence toll mounts to 51

An official source informed that though there was no report of fresh violence from any part of the two affected districts, the situation remained very tense. Ten additional companies of Border Security Force personnel had been...

Pakistan's fight against terror affects lives

Tuesday, October 07, 2008, (Bajaur) As the Pakistan government tries to live up to its promise to fight terrorists in its border regions with Afghanistan, the people suffering most are innocent civilians. The restive Bajaur...

Russian NGO honours Afghan woman MP

By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT London Oct. 7: Afghanistan woman member of Parliament, 30-year-old Malalai Joya, has been conferred the prestigious Anna Politkovskaya Award for her work in defending human rights. The award, set up...

Violence toll mounts to 51

Additional security forces were rushed to the two communal violence-hit districts of Assam on Tuesday even as the death toll mounted to 51 with recovery of more bodies from affected areas as well as d...

Africa: The Forgotten Issue

As voters in the United States are entertained either by the minutia of electoral politics anticipating the next gaffe by Sarah Palin as well as the latest poll or the latest frivolous update on the artificial and superficial...

Three Random Facts About Belmont University

Belmont University - the site of the second presidential debates — might not be known to many of our regular readers. I have some inside information and some questions based upon it which I would like to share. First, the...

Lives lost through lack of leadership in UN response to humanitarian crises, Britain warns

• Minister calls for more trained co-ordinators • Natural and man-made disasters on the increase A camp for internally displaced persons in Habile, in southern Chad. Photographer: Lynsey Addario/Corbis Britain will issue a...

Access to protection at airports in Europe

In most Member States of the EU, the number of persons crossing the state border at airports far exceeds those at land or sea borders. Yet access of asylum seekers to the territory and the asylum procedure is often unregulated...

Over 250,000 Afghan refugees return home this year

KABUL, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- More than a quarter million Afghan refugees have returned home mostly from Pakistan so far this year with the support of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a statement of the body released here...

Boat refugees may be linked

A GROUP of suspected Afghani refugees who arrived in Australian waters yesterday may be linked to another boatload of unauthorised arrivals intercepted last week, the Federal Government says. Immigration Minister Chris Evans...