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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> International human rights advocacy group Amnesty International has launched a Chinese-language website as part of its efforts to reach out to a Chinese-speaking audience, even though the site remains inaccessible to most on the mainland. “This is a benchmark in the organisation’s ongoing efforts to engage Chinese-speaking human rights activists and supporters around the world,” Amnesty’s East Asia head Roseann Rife said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Jamie Dettmer, on June 12th, 2013 In a big reversal, the United Nations says it wants to open 12 refugee camps in Lebanon for Syrian refugees. Jamie Dettmer reports on the repercussions—and why Hezbollah is opposed.
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By By JODI RUDOREN, on May 25th, 2013 Kilian Kleinschmidt, who runs an overcrowded Syrian refugee camp in Jordan for the United Nations, is a ruddy-faced German who thrives in international disasters.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Today is Friday, May 31, the 151st day of 2013. There are 214 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1043 – Lady Godiva rides naked through the market square in Coventry, England. 1520 – After being a hostage in Denmark, young nobleman Gustav Vasa slips back into Sweden to start a rebellion against the Danes that will establish Swedish independence. 1790 – The U.S. copyright law is enacted
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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 –>
Continue reading Refugees and migrants face rising dangers
By , on May 17th, 2013 
The inquest into the death of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko could be replaced by a form of public inquiry to allow evidence about Russia’s alleged role in the killing to be heard in secret.
Continue reading Litvinenko inquest future in doubt
By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cyclone Mahasen weakened late yesterday into a tropical storm, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over coastal Bangladesh and spared Myanmar almost entirely. At least 18 deaths related to Mahasen were reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, but officials had prepared for a far greater storm. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Relief as Cyclone Mahasen veers west and weakens
By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than one million people. The eye of the storm was expected to reach land Thursday evening, but at least 18 deaths related to Mahasen already have been reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war that followed Israel’s founding in 1948. Every May 15, Palestinians commemorate the “nakba”, or “catastrophe” – the term they use to describe their displacement. Hundreds of thousands fled or were driven out during the fighting. The dispute over the fate of those Palestinians and that of their descendants, now numbering several million people, remains at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. <!– 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 –>
Continue reading Cyclone Mahasen triggers mass evacuations in Bangladesh, Myanmar
By By THOMAS FULLER, on May 11th, 2013 United Nations officials are worried about a “looming catastrophe” at refugee camps housing tens of thousands of people displaced by violence in Myanmar.
Continue reading Cyclone Could Threaten Myanmar Refugees
By , on May 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Indonesian anti-terrorist police have detained two men suspected of planning a bomb attack on the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta on Friday in the wake of fresh violence against Muslims in Myanmar, officials said. The suspects were arrested late on Thursday travelling by motorbike in a busy residential area in the south of the capital with five assembled pipe bombs, national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said in a statement. <!– 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 April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The 46-year-old, one of the European Union’s youngest prime ministers, is then expected to unveil his programme in a parliamentary session on Monday, before the government is put to a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Syria dismisses US, UK chemical weapons claims as lie
By , on April 24th, 2013 
The planned sale of 632 UK bank branches by Lloyds Banking Group to the Co-op group falls through.
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By , on April 24th, 2013 
Patients are getting lost in UK hospitals because they are constantly being switched from ward to ward amid pressures on A&E departments, nurses say.
Continue reading Struggling hospitals ‘lose patients’
By , on April 24th, 2013 
Rates of murder and violent crime have fallen more rapidly in the UK in the past decade than anywhere else in Western Europe, an international study says.
Continue reading UK ‘becoming a more peaceful place’
By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Six days of clashes in two Damascus suburbs may have killed hundreds of people, a dramatic spike in the rising death toll in the Syrian civil war, activists said on Monday. The reports came as President Bashar Assad’s forces pressed on with a major offensive in the suburbs against opposition fighters who have been closing in on parts of the Syrian capital. To the north, regime troops surged around the contested town of Qusair in Syria’s Homs province, near the frontier with Lebanon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Based at an old army base in Tuen Mun opposite the Gold Coast shopping precinct, non-profit organisation Crossroads simulates the realities of life as a refugee so others can understand their plight. One of the organisation’s programmes is the Refugee Run Simulation, which vividly brings alive the dilemmas faced by 43.3 million people who are refugees, sometimes in their own countries. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Crossroads Foundation helps people experience 45 minutes in a refugee’s life
By , on April 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A fire which broke out early yesterday at a market in Wong Tai Sin blazed for seven hours and forced the evacuation of about 700 people. Eight people aged between 13 and 85 suffered smoke inhalation and were taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Amnesty International launches Chinese-language website
<!– google_ad_section_start –> International human rights advocacy group Amnesty International has launched a Chinese-language website as part of its efforts to reach out to a Chinese-speaking audience, even though the site remains inaccessible to most on the mainland. “This is a benchmark in the organisation’s ongoing efforts to engage Chinese-speaking human rights activists and supporters around the world,” Amnesty’s East Asia head Roseann Rife said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Amnesty International launches Chinese-language website
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