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UN seeks $144 million in additional humanitarian aid for Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- The United Nations on Tuesday will launch a $144 million appeal to fund humanitarian programs that aid officials here say is urgently needed to help Haiti cope with the ongoing...

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Squeeze on smugglers

Tough problems require tough solutions. Australia is finally muscling up in the battle to staunch the increasing flow of asylum seekers risking their lives to reach our territory. The government's...

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Google-FTC Probe, CFTC-Audio Rule, JPMorgan: Compliance

Google Inc. (GOOG) is poised to make voluntary concessions that will end a 20-month U.S. antitrust probe of its business practices without any enforcement action, two people familiar with the matter...

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Niggardly ways a foreign affair

IT was in Australia's interest to have a stable Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced yesterday in Colombo. Just what the Australian cricket team didn't need - a directive from the Foreign...

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Australia, Sri Lankan to discuss plan against people smuggling

CANBERRA, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Australia will discuss a plan to fight people smuggling with Sri Lankan government and naval authorities, Foreign Minister Bob Carr, who is visiting Sri Lanka, announced...

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30,000 refugees, more dead if we don't change, MPs told

MORE than 30,000 people could come to Australia by boat next year and more lives will be lost at sea unless the opposition parties and the refugee sector support all of the recommendations of Gillard...

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Law students' help gives young refugees hope for family reunion (The...

(Source: The University of Queensland) A group of young Afghan refugees has taken a step closer to reuniting with their families with the help of law students from the UQ Pro Bono Centre. During 2012,...

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Low Awareness, Unsafe Sex Fuel Papuan HIV/AIDS Rise: Official

Jayapura. The total number of reported cases of people living with HIV/AIDS in Papua has topped 13,000, with 150 of the new cases involving infants below the age of five years who contracted the virus...

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Tortured in Sinai, Imprisoned in Israel

A new Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) is titled "Tortured in Sinai, Jailed in Israel." More on it below. Separate and unequal defines longstanding Israeli policy. Arabs aren't wanted....

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Unwanted foreigners

IT was reported recently that foreign prostitutes earn up to RM30,000 a month. According to the Bukit Aman anti-vice, gambling and secret societies division chief, the lucrative trade is attracting...

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Step up on West Papua: Greens (Australian Greens)

(Source: Australian Greens) The Australian Greens today called for Foreign Minister, Senator Bob Carr, to explain what Australia is doing to help put an end to violence and human rights abuses in West...

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EU Commissioner Georgieva and UNHCR's Guterres view refugee projects in...

(Source: UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) Press Releases, 17 December 2012 BEIRUT, Lebanon, December 15 -- European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva and UN refugee...

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Australia gives emergency aid to Fiji and Samoa (AusAID - Australian Agency...

(Source: AusAID - Australian Agency for International Development) Australia has committed an initial $1 million each to Fiji and Samoa in emergency assistance and relief supplies for communities...

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Fuel shortage blocks aid support in Syria, UN warns

The UN's humanitarian chief has called on Syria to urgently allow fuel imports for aid deliveries and give access to 10 more aid agencies. Valerie Amos met government officials in the capital,...

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Singapore deports Australian activist

An 81-year-old Australian human rights activist has accused Singapore authorities of holding him in a cell without food, drink and toilet facilities for nearly five hours before deporting him. Brian...

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Australia aid to ‘Pablo’ victims hiked to Php307M

THE Australian government yesterday announced it has increased to Php307 million (A$7.3 million) its assistance to victims of typhoon Pablo. This is in response to the increasing humanitarian needs...

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Indians among 34 ‘boat people’ held in Australia

Indians are among the 34 ‘boat people’ — a term used to refer to people who risk an extremely hazardous ocean journey for many days to reach a country they consider better than the one they left...

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Mali: Humanitarian impact of armed intervention

DAKAR, 18 December 2012 (IRIN) - Over 700,000 people could be displaced if military intervention goes ahead next year in northern Mali, according to preliminary estimates by humanitarian agencies, who...

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Carr must be “friend to” Sri Lanka (Australian Greens)

(Source: Australian Greens) The Greens are urging Foreign Minister Bob Carr to be "a friend to" Sri Lanka on his visit there, in the same way that he has repeatedly said that to be a friend of Israel...

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United spy force takes on people smugglers

AUSTRALIA will launch an unprecedented spy operation with Sri Lankan intelligence agencies to target known people smuggler rackets now responsible for almost 50 per cent of asylum seeker boat arrivals...

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