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BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 24 — The UN refugee agency is stepping up efforts to help refugees and internally displaced Iraqis in post-war Iraq. These range from finding alternative housing for hundreds of displaced Palestinians in […]

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 24 — Eleven people have died in nearly a week of fighting between local residents and Sudanese refugees in Kakuma camp, north-western Kenya. UNHCR officials today expressed grave concern about the violence […]

TESSENEY, Eritrea, June 24– The UN refugee agency has resumed repatriation in the Horn of Africa, helping hundreds of refugees return home to Eritrea and north-west Somalia. On Monday, 394 Eritrean refugees left Sudan in […]

Geneva/Beijin, 24 June– The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today lifted its final SARS travel warning, removing Beijing, locus of one of the largest outbreaks of the newly emergent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, from […]

Berlin, 24 June– Minister Struck, Minister Szmajdzinski, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very pleased to be here and even more delighted to be able to answer a simple question with a simple answer. The […]

Washington, 23 June– President Bush June 23 urged governments to ”end their opposition” to biotechnology in order advance the global fight against hunger. Addressing the Biotechnology Industrial Organization’s (BIO) Annual Convention in Washington, Bush said […]

Washington, 23 June– Dr. Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traore asked the crowded Congressional hearing room to say ”malaria” aloud. When they did, the Malian physician told them that in that breath, ”Ten new cases of malaria have […]

Washington, 23 June– Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist Oronto Douglas says Americans can help further democracy in Nigeria by encouraging the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo to fight corruption while pushing oil companies to […]