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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Amnesty International said on Thursday millions of people who have fled conflict or persecution, and migrants who have left home in search of work, have suffered abuses at the hands of state authorities or employers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar’s victims of sectarian strife were spared the full force of Cyclone Mahasen, but many are now returning to flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the monsoon season weeks away. Myanmar’s Rakhine state is pockmarked with makeshift settlements for up to 140,000 people – mainly Rohingya Muslims – displaced by sectarian unrest last year that claimed about 200 lives and saw whole villages razed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar President Thein Sein’s landmark state visit to the United States could be delayed because of a cyclone threatening to strike his country’s northwest coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag: Many members of the displaced Rohingya minority living in the camps have refused to leave, distrustful of Myanmar authorities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered on Wednesday to move to safety as a cyclone barrelled towards low-lying coastal areas. The United Nations has warned that more than eight million people could be at risk from Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to make landfall on Thursday or Friday somewhere near the border between the two countries. Bangladesh told hundreds of thousands of people living in low-lying areas to move to cyclone shelters, while Myanmar announced plans to move roughly 166,000 people at risk on its northwest coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Several overcrowded boats carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims capsized off the coast of western Myanmar while trying to escape an approaching cyclone, and only 42 were known to have survived, the United Nations said yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar started moving people into emergency shelters as a cyclone threatened to batter a violence-wracked region home to tens of thousands of internal refugees. About 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in flimsy tents or makeshift housing are seen as particularly vulnerable to Cyclone Mahasen, which was gathering strength in the Bay of Bengal. The cyclone is expected to make landfall near the Myanmese-Bangladeshi border on Thursday morning, according to Myanmar’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In Myanmar’s central heartlands, justice and security is elusive for thousands of Muslims who lost their homes in a deadly rampage by Buddhist mobs in March. Many are detained in prison-like camps, unable to return to neighbourhoods and businesses razed in four days of violence in Meiktila that killed at least 43 people, most of them Muslims, displaced nearly 13,000, and touched off a wave of anti- Muslim unrest fuelled by radical Buddhist monks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least twelve people were killed on Thursday by a car bomb at a camp in northwest Pakistan for people displaced by fighting between government forces and Islamist militants, police said. The bomb exploded in the Jalozai camp in Nowshera in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, an area bordering Afghanistan and a stronghold for insurgents bent on toppling Pakistan’s US-backed government. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Malaysian authorities have rescued at least 136 people believed to be ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing strife in Myanmar aboard a leaking boat with no food or water, an official said on Monday. The rescue brings the number of boats intercepted this year to 11, marking a “big increase” in refugee arrivals, said Tan Kok Kwee of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, following deadly sectarian violence in Myanmar. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The number of Syrians who have fled their country since a deadly civil conflict erupted two years ago has hit one million, the UN’s refugee agency said Wednesday. “With a million people in flight, millions more displaced internally, and thousands of people continuing to cross the border every day, Syria is spiralling towards full-scale disaster,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said in a statement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Police officers failed to carry out checks on a psychiatric patient who murdered a woman which would have revealed that she had killed before, a report finds.
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Cardinal Keith O’Brien, formerly Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric, is expected to face a Vatican inquiry after admitting sexual misconduct.
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By , on March 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Down in the valley there’s a clue why. Sunshine gleams off the metal roofs of housing built for families displaced by ethnic violence that followed Kenya’s general election five years ago. More than 1,100 people were killed and 600,000 fled their homes. On Monday, the nation goes to the polls again in possibly the most important vote in its 50-year history. Many fear a repeat. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least 65 people, apparently shot in the head, were found dead with their hands bound in a district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Dozens of Russians arrived home on Wednesday after fleeing Syria, relieved to be escaping the deprivation and horror of civil war but worried about an uncertain future back home. “The Free Syrian Army is getting closer. We’ve been left without money, without light, without water,” Natasha Yunis, who ran a beauty salon in her adopted home of Damascus after meeting her Syrian husband, said of rebel advances on the capital. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Severe cold weather sweeping through camps for people displaced by the Afghan war has killed 17 people, mostly children, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. The deaths occurred in the first two weeks of January in Kabul and Herat provinces, which host most of the country’s half a million internally displaced people. These deaths were a preventable tragedy “These deaths were a preventable tragedy,” Amnesty’s deputy Asia Pacific director Polly Truscott said in a statement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An estimated 30,000 people may have been displaced by fighting in central and northern Mali since Islamist insurgents suddenly started moving south last week, the United Nations said on Monday. UN deputy spokesman Eduardo del Bueys said it’s feared the number may be higher because some rebel groups are reportedly preventing Malians from fleeing to the government-controlled south. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Kachin rebels on Monday said three civilians were killed and six wounded in the first attack by Myanmar forces on their northern stronghold, as fighting escalates in the country’s last active civil war. Three shells landed in “the heart of Laiza” town, the Kachin Independence Army’s base near the Chinese border, early on Monday, said Colonel James Lum Dau, spokesman for the KIA’s political wing. “This is the first time they have directly bombarded Laiza,” he said. Lum Dau said the dead included a 15-year-old boy and a 76-year-old man. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of families living in makeshift shelters around the Afghan capital collected blankets, charcoal and other supplies as authorities struggle to avoid a repeat of last winter’s deaths. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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