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Palestinian kids swept up in wave of Israeli arrests	20.5.2013	MSNBC
Palestinian kids swept up in wave of Israeli arrests
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Manchester continues to grapple with new refugees	20.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Manchester continues to grapple with new refugees
Impossible Choice Faces America's First 'Climate Refugees'	19.5.2013	NPR News
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the tiny town of Newtok, Alaska, could be completely underwater by 2017. Its 350 residents must relocate or stay to face the floods, but a move is easier said than done.
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AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten	18.5.2013	Mideast Conflict
GEZIRAT AL-FADEL, Egypt (AP) — In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old and his family walked west for several hundred miles, crossing the Sinai Peninsula before settling in an area around 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Cairo. ...
AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten	18.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten
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A risk pays off	18.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
Four years ago, a small Southern college took a gamble on a handful of refugees from war-torn nations. This summer, they proved their doubters wrong.
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Michelle Brané: Women Are a Critical Part of Immigration Reform: Let's Include Them This Time	18.5.2013	Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
As the bill moves through committee and onto the Senate floor, the rights and well-being of immigrant women will depend on Senators keeping women -- and women's realities -- in mind.
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Idaho man charged in Uzbekistan terrorism plot	18.5.2013	Twincities.com: News
BOISE, Idaho—He was a Russian-speaking truck driver who came to Idaho nearly four years ago to join hundreds of other Uzbekistan refugees for whom the state has become a sanctuary from violence in their home country.
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U.N. Security Council mulls Syria cross-border aid push	18.5.2013	Yahoo: Top Stories
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is considering a plea from senior U.N. aid officials to demand aid access in war-torn Syria, a move that could lead to a showdown between Russia and Western states over humanitarian cross-border deliveries, U.N. diplomats say. As neighboring Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq struggle to cope with the influx of Syrian refugees that the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday has surpassed 1.5 million, U.N. officials have told the Security Council there are millions more people in need of aid inside Syria. ...
Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons	18.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Barbara Surk The Associated Press Published May 17, 2013 03:49PM MDT Beirut • Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. Raqqa, in eastern Syria, was overrun in late February by rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. The rebels facilitated the New York-based group’s access to facilities that had belonged to a government security agency and military intelligence in la... ...
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Headlines for May 17, 2013	17.5.2013	Democracy Now!
Headlines for May 17, 2013
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UN says Syrian refugees top 1.5M	17.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
UN says Syrian refugees top 1.5M
Iranian LGBTs flee persecution via 'underground railroad'	17.5.2013	Washington Post: Politics
KAYSERI, Turkey — It’s a humid summer night in Kayseri. Several busloads of Iranians trundle through the dusk. Grandparents, toddlers, thirty-somethings and gangly teenage couples stand in the aisles, sit on laps. All are refugees. The caravan stops in front a nondescript high-rise with a small disco on the ground floor. Tobacco water pipes coil in wait on the terrace as DJs set up inside. Nasrin Sabokpa, a 26-year-old lesbian, is here with her mom and two gay friends. Sabokpa and her friends are several of the hundreds of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) refugees that have left Iran with help from an “underground railroad” spanning from Iran to Turkey and then across the globe, from Canada and the United States to Europe and Australia. For now, they’re registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ankara , and waiting. Waiting for the next move, the next life, a fresh start. “The last four years in Iran were so hard. I always had to hide myself — ...
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Number of Syrian refugees tops 1.5 million: UNHCR	17.5.2013	World
GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of Syrian refugees registered or awaiting registration has surpassed 1.5 million, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday. "The fact that more than 1.5 million have registered or have appointments with UNHCR sadly means the actual number is much higher," UNHCR said in a statement issued in Geneva. "Refugees tell us the increased fighting and changing of control of towns and villages, in particular in conflict areas, results in more and more civilians deciding to leave," it said. (Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
Russia sends advanced missiles to aid Assad in Syria	17.5.2013	MSNBC
Russia sends advanced missiles to aid Assad in Syria
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Obama: U.S. preserves diplomatic, military options on Syria	17.5.2013	Yahoo: Top Stories
By Nick Tattersall and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he reserved the right to resort to both diplomatic and military options to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but insisted that U.S. action alone would not be enough to resolve the Syrian crisis. Taking a cautious line at a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, Obama voiced hope that the United States and Russia would succeed in arranging an international peace conference on Syria, despite signs of growing obstacles. ... ...
Meet the Alaskans poised to become 'America's first climate refugees'	16.5.2013	MinnPost
If we think of them at all, Americans still tend to think of "climate refugees" as remote —far away and off in the future somewhere, driven by rising sea levels to flee Pacific islands or the plains of south Asia, places of which we know next to nothing. The 100,000 people of Kiribati, say, who are imploring Australia and New Zealand ( so far without success ) to accept them as displaced persons before the ocean erases the 10 feet now separating their homes from sea level. A crisis much closer to home, in both time and territory, is documented in a remarkable series published this week in Britain's Guardian: Climate-driven havoc in nearly 200 native villages across Alaska, whose residents are positioned to become, probably within the decade, "America's First Climate Refugees." Richly illustrated and highly interactive, the project portrays the communities' approaching doom with an intimacy that may border on unbearable for some. But it's a story we need to know. Suzanne Goldenberg, ...
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Op-Ed Contributor: Assad’s Spillover Strategy	16.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Editorials
Op-Ed Contributor: Assad’s Spillover Strategy
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Rediscovering Albert Hirschman	16.5.2013	American Prospect
T o consider the life story of development economist turned moral philosopher Albert Hirschman is to appreciate that no other generation is likely to accumulate the experience of the European émigrés to America who came of age just before World War II, survived it, and went on to contribute to the political and scholarly foundations of postwar civilization. Of that generation, nobody did so with more range and grace than Hirschman. There was a time in the 1970s and 1980s when Hirschman, who died last December at 97, enjoyed a wide general audience. But outside of academia, his works connecting economics and policies to core human values haven’t made it into the canon of writings that educated people feel they need to read. The results of my informal survey suggest that even among teachers who admire him, Hirschman’s work is invoked but not routinely assigned. This is a loss to our collective wisdom. We can hope that the publication of Jeremy Adelman’s new biography, Worldly Philosopher , ...
As rain from cyclone falls, Myanmar minority stay	16.5.2013	Twincities.com: News
SITTWE, Myanmar—A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar's western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal.
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