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Pakistani jets pound Taliban on Afghan border

Published July 5, 2009, 5:10 am, Boston Globe

Pakistani warplanes bombed Taliban positions in the northwest Sunday, killing at least five insurgents, residents said, as militants distributed leaflets warning area tribesmen not to rise up against them.

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Dadaab Refugee Camps – Overview, Garissa, N.Eastern, Kenya

Published July 4, 2009, 12:41 pm, AlertNet

Source: UNOSAT Kenya - This map illustrates satellite-derived transportation data (roads, air field, bridges and potential road obstacles) over the complex of three refugee camps surrounding the village of Dadaab, ...

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Menik Farm IDP Shelter Map (Zones 4 - 5), Vavuniya District, Sri Lanka

Published July 4, 2009, 5:11 am, AlertNet

Source: UNOSAT Sri Lanka - This map illustrates satellite-detected IDP shelters within the Menik Farm area, zones 4 - 5 as identified from WorldView-1 satellite imagery recorded on 26 June 2009. The IDP shelters ...

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Tamils' transit to Australia, 'land of freedom'

Published July 3, 2009, 7:30 am, Sydney Morning Herald

Among the 100,000 refugees in Malaysia, many Sri Lankans are ready to risk all on a clandestine voyage into the Indian Ocean, writes Tom Allard in Kuala Lumpur.

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Calais advice centre for asylum seekers gets just FOUR inquiries a day

Published July 1, 2009, 5:20 pm, Daily Mail

The mission aims to tell refugees that Britain is not 'the promised land' and help them remain in France legally.

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Today from VOA:

Published June 30, 2009, 7:30 am, Voice of America

Despite the huge toll that malaria takes on the world, preventing the disease is relatively easy. Since most transmissions occur through mosquito bites in the middle of the night, widespread use of long-lasting, insecticide-treated bednets can reduce transmission by as much as 90 percent.

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Palestinian "Survivors" in No-Man's Land

Published June 30, 2009, 2:57 am, Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Banished from Iraq and barred from its neighbours, Palestinian refugees languish along Syrian frontier. The temperature in our tents rises with the sun every morning and plummets at dusk. The days are blazing hot, the nights are freezing cold and time feels like a dead weight in the desert.

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