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Original Technorati articles tagged “refugees”

• in Travel
  Gorillaland by Greg Cummings
  a compelling and terrifying trip through the heart of Africa
  by wesaidgotravel / on Sep 13, 2012
• in Politics
  Syria: When will the Violence End?
  Recently, the Syrian government has harshly cracked down on protests within the country, committing many violent atrocities along the way. When and how will this stop?
  by mgregory85 / on Jun 15, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “refugees”

 

• (New film) Return of the Primitive: Refugee Resettlement in America

  
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  That’s the title of an 18 minute documentary from ‘Indomitable realist’ you should watch.  I think it’s just out today.   Hat tip: Brad It features Somalis in Minnesota, Lewiston, ME, and Shelbyville, TN.  It includes one segment on the Lost Boys of Sudan. I didn’t know Glenn Beck talked about the State ...
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• Syria Crisis: Russia “Sends Sophisticated Weapons”

  
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  Russia has delivered highly advanced anti-ship missiles to Syria, reports the New York Times. The BBC News points out that the news arrived the same day as a UN report said the number of refugees from Syria had passed 1.5 million mark. Following a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, UN Secretary ...
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• Israel: Triumph of Resilience

  
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  Dr. Chaim Weizman, first President of the State of Israel Israel, having attained its 65 th anniversary, resists easy definition.  Sixty-five years ago, on May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion, its first prime minister, declared independence, to which American and Soviet recognition was forthcoming the next day, ...
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• Breaking! Senator Lindsey Graham prevails with stepped-up security amendment to S.744

  
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  Just now, I happened to catch the live mark-up proceedings in the US Senate Judiciary Committee and saw Senator Graham make his pitch for his Amendment #1, described here , that is clearly in response to the Boston Bomber Tsarnaev family’s re-visits to the homeland where they supposedly were persecuted. Dick ...
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• U.S. Humanitarian Assistance to Mali

  
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  At the Mali Donors Conference in Brussels on May 15 the United States announced $32 million in new humanitarian assistance to support Malian refugees in neighboring countries and to the internally displaced. The same day, the U.S. Department of State spokesman said that the Obama administration will request from ...
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• Senator Chuck Grassley wants to strip refugee/asylum sections from Gang’s bill!

  
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  This is such good news! Really, really, really good news! You must call Senator Grassley this morning to tell him you support this effort! (see below) Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is offering an amendment to S.744  to remove all references to refugees/asylum from S. 744 until after a report is completed ...
  5 days ago

• Five Questions with Author of The Invisible Girls

  
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  Sarah Thebarge  is the author of  The Invisible Girls ,  a new memoir from  Jericho Books . I was fortunate to get a few minutes to ask her a few questions about her touching, funny, compelling new piece of work. Q:  Your book is about Somali Refugees and also about your survival of breast cancer.  How do ...
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• Senator Rand Paul: Why are we bringing so many Iraqis to the US?

  
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  From the editor:   for all those arriving here , be sure to see Senator Grassley amendment to S. 744 here . Didn’t we give Iraq a democratically elected government Paul went on to say!  Yup! Maybe Rand Paul needs to ask his pal Grover Norquist those questions.*** Below is a story I missed last ...
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• Syria: Persecution News Update

  
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  The link below is to an article reporting on life for Christian refugees who have fled persecution in Syria. For more visit: http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2013/05/article_2460731.html/ Filed under: Christianity , Islam , Syria
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• Syria crisis: battle for Qusair – live updates

  
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  The Syrian army claims to have seized the strategic town of Qusair after reports that Hezbollah fighters helped it attack rebel positions Matthew Weaver Guardian readers
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• Tamil refugees sheltering in UAE granted asylum in the USA and Europe

  
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  Two of the four refugees will begin new lives in the USA, with the others moving to Sweden and Finland. Full News here – UAE news Get up to 75% discount in Dubai hotels! link: Tamil refugees sheltering in UAE granted asylum in the USA and Europe
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• Taiwan seeks joint investigation into fisherman’s death

  
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  Taiwan on Sunday repeated calls for a joint investigation into the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine coastguards, an incident which has ignited a major diplomatic dispute. A team of Taiwanese investigators returned to the island Saturday, accusing the Philippine government of failing to honour its ...
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• North Korea test-fires fourth short-range missile in two days

  
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  North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the UN chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman said ...
  6 days ago

• New Documentary Exposes the Mistreatment of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Greece

  
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  Kate Mara and Guy Smallman: European governments impose austerity demands in Greece but fund detention centers in Greece for refugees. Xenophobic views expressed even by centrist parties … Read More
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• This should be a banner year for refugee resettlement in America

  
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  Iraqis top the list! At the State Department hearing this past Wednesday in Washington, representatives from contractors US Conference of Catholic Bishops , Church World Service and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society all praised the US State Department for the expeditious arrival (so far) of refugees in ...
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• China investigates North Korea boat hijack claim

  
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  Chinese authorities were on Sunday investigating claims that unidentified North Koreans hijacked a Chinese fishing boat, kidnapping 16 sailors and demanding a ransom, local media and an official said. Armed North Koreans on May 6 hijacked the boat and escorted it towards North Korea while it was sailing in waters ...
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• Palestinian alleged terror-funders arrested in Maryland

  
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  Editors note:   This is cross-posted from my other blog, Potomac Tea Party Report .  We don’t know how these Palestinians got into the US (the mainstream media is rarely curious about that), but readers here at RRW should know that we (US State Department and refugee contractors) are now taking some Palestinian ...
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• Lottery official: 1 winning ticket sold in US for record Powerball jackpot of more than $590M

  
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  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery official: 1 winning ticket sold in US for record Powerball jackpot of more than $590M. Read more: Lottery official: 1 winning ticket sold in US for record Powerball jackpot of more than $590M
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• Infographic: Breast cancer in Hong Kong

  
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  Angelina Jolie recently revealed that due to her defective gene BRCA1, she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy to reduce the risk of getting breast cancer from 87 per cent to 5 per cent. In Hong Kong, breast cancer is the most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Here we ...
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• Naqba — Commemorating a Self-Inflicted Tragedy

  
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  Nakba Day protestors at the Israeli embassy in Cairo, 2011. Photo: wiki commons. Today, Palestinians and their supporters, as they have done increasingly over the years, mark what they call the naqba (Arabic for catastrophe). It was on this day 65 years ago that Israel came into existence upon the expiry of ...
  6 days ago

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