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• NRC responds to desperate shelter needs

  
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  Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) NRC continues to respond to the shelter needs in Myanmar. Several hundred thousand people are still in need of sustainable shelter, a year and a half after cyclone Nargis struck."NRC has built ...
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• Homeowners insurance: Whats covered, whats not, and what to look …

  
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  Yet, when it comes to homeowners insurance , the norm is to still simply to defer the decision-making to the agent. But just as you wouldnย’t consider purchasing your home without first researching and planning, so also should homeowners … More here: Homeowners insurance: Whats covered, whats not, and what to ...
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• INTERVIEW-Yemen displaced face cholera risk, hunger - UNICEF

  
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  Source: Reuters * New camp to open in a few weeks - U.N. official * Camp to host up to 12,000 people but may be expanded * Insecurity, local habits complicate work By Olesya Dmitracova LONDON, Nov 23 ( ...
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• Farmer decides to stay in Somalia after crossing the seas on a round trip to nowhere

  
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  Source: UNHCR When militiamen raided his home in central Somalia, Siidow fled across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen before being flown home from Saudi Arabia. He has no plans to try again.
  5 days ago

• Saudis pound Yemen rebels; arrest scores - source

  
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  Source: Reuters (Adds rebel statement, comment from Yemen army spokesman, background on displaced) RIYADH/SANAA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Saudi air force and artillery pounded Yemeni rebel hideouts to push the rebels ...
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• SRI LANKA: Agencies raise concerns over IDP care once resettled

  
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  Source: IRIN The release of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from camps in Sri Lankas north is welcome, but the government must now ensure they are properly cared for, the UN and NGOs say.
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• SRI LANKA: Agencies raise concerns over IDP care once resettled

  
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  Source: IRIN The release of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from camps in Sri Lankas north is welcome, but the government must now ensure they are properly cared for, the UN and NGOs say.
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• Where is home? And why is that a hard question?

  
  Reverse Paranoia — Authority: 92
  For the past two plus years, I’ve been living with my Mexican husband in Los Cabos, Mexico. Neither of us are from here: he is from a Mexican city on the mainland, I am from New Jersey (loud & proud), and we first met, fell in love and moved in together in New York City, which [...]
  6 days ago

• Sri Lanka to open refugee camps ahead of polls

  
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  Source: Reuters (Adds U.N. statement paragraphs 9-10) By Ranga Sirilal and Shihar Aneez COLOMBO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Saturday it will allow greater freedom of movement to refugees held in ...
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• Sri Lanka to open refugee camps ahead of polls

  
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  Source: Reuters By Ranga Sirilal and Shihar Aneez COLOMBO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Saturday it will allow greater freedom of movement to refugees held in military-guarded camps from next month, after ...
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• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

  
  In the Shadow of Mt. TBR — Authority: 110
  Title :  The Namesake Author :  Jhumpa Lahiri Paperback :  291 pages ISBN :  9780618485222 For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy - a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts.  It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis ...
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• Thanks to GM, People Are Being Displaced So Their Forests Can Become Offsets for SUVs

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By Mark Schapiro Mother Jones Should we focus on industries paying to preserve distant trees rather than reducing emissions closer to home? It’s the question of the day in Washington and Copenhagen. I am standing in the shadow of General Motors’ $1 tree. It’s a native guaricica, with pale white bark and a ...
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• Thailand: End Detention of Lao Hmong Refugees

  
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  Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - The Thai government should immediately end the detention of 158 Lao Hmong refugees held in poor and abusive conditions for three years, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Prime ...
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• Iraq: Future Tied to Resolution of Refugee Situation

  
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  Iraq’s vice-president has vetoed part of the country’s new electionlaw, placing the planned elections for January in jeopardy because heobjected to the lack of parliamentary representation of refugees.  Thisbold step should remind the international community that, as mostattention and resources have shifted east ...
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• Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela

  
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  Source: Reuters * Chavezs insults, dynamited bridges raise tensions * Border town residents forced to wade across river * Colombian military chiefs meet, no troop buildup seen (Adds Colombia to complain to U.N ...
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• Six dead after suspected Colombian rebels burn bus

  
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  Source: Reuters BOGOTA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Six people, including two children, were killed when suspected Colombian FARC guerrillas stopped and set fire to bus traveling in the south of the country, a local state ...
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• Cooperation between states in the Americas vital to protect refugees in migration flows

  
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  Source: UNHCR A regional conference on refugee protection and mixed migration in the Americas gets under way with call on states to cooperate over the issue.
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• Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela

  
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  Source: Reuters * Chavezs insults, dynamiting of bridges raise tensions * Colombian military chiefs meet, no troop buildup seen By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Colombia will not be provoked into ...
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• DRC-CONGO: New wave of refugees flees fresh fighting

  
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  Source: IRIN Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials.
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• PHOTOS: Kenya, Rift Valley- 20 000 people evicted from their homes in the forest

  
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