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  • April 2008

    • Ignore Pirates or Face Asylum Claims, UK Says

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Apr 13, 08 10:37 AM CDT

      Ignore Pirates or Face Asylum Claims, UK Says

      In an odd new take on piracy, the British Royal Navy has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates—or they may seek asylum to escape death sentences in their home countries. It's not a strategy roundly hailed. “These people commit horrendous offenses. It’s a pathetic indictment of what our legal system has come to," complained one politician. More »

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      crime  • kidnapping  • Somalia  • cruise ships  • pirates  • asylum  • Britian  • ransom  • cargo ships

  • March 2008

    • 7 Cuban Soccer Players Defect to US

      newser  |  Miami Herald  |  Mar 13, 08 12:27 PM CDT

      7 Cuban Soccer Players Defect to US

      Seven Cuban soccer players defected from the national team over the last two days—five on Tuesday and two last night—slipping from their Tampa hotel after a game to seek asylum in the US, the Miami Herald reports. The first five have contacted a lawyer and are in discussions with a second-tier soccer team, Miami FC; they may start training as soon as today, Reuters reports. The loss of seven players could be the team’s downfall in Olympic trials. More »

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      Cuba  • soccer  • Major League Soccer  • asylum  • defectors

  • December 2007

    • Iraqi Officers Going AWOL in America

      newser  |  Washington Times  |  Dec 6, 07 8:46 PM CST

      Iraqi Officers Going AWOL in America

      Nearly a dozen Iraqi military and law-enforcement officials have fled specialized training programs in the US, the Washington Times reports. The men are either seeking asylum in this country or are still missing—leading a high-ranking congressman to warn of the national-security implications. An Army spokesman says none of the missing students poses a threat. More »

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      Iraq  • military  • Department of Homeland Security  • Iraq Army  • asylum  • AWOL

  • October 2007

    • Muslim Critic Back in Holland, Goes Into Hiding

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Oct 3, 07 10:42 AM CDT

      Muslim Critic Back in Holland, Goes Into Hiding

      Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch parliamentarian who has lived in exile since 2006, has returned home after Holland's government stopped paying for her security. The Times of London writes that Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee known for criticizing Islam, has been under round-the-clock protection since the 2004 murder of the director of a film on which she collaborated. More »

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      Islam  • asylum  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali  • Theo Van Gogh

  • September 2007

    • Israel Welcomes 500 Darfur Refugees

      newser  |  BBC  |  Sep 24, 07 3:56 AM CDT

      Israel Welcomes 500 Darfur Refugees

      Israel has agreed to allow 498 refugees who fled Darfur through Egypt to remain in the country, although their legal status remains undecided. Africans from other parts of the continent and new arrivals from Darfur, however, will be expelled. Egypt has agreed to accept refugees who are returned after trying to cross to Israel over the Egyptian border. More »

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      Israel  • Africa  • Sudan  • Darfur  • Egypt  • refugee  • Crisis in Darfur  • asylum  • Darfuris

  • August 2007

    • Iraq's Upper Class Flees

      newser  |  Der Spiegel  |  Aug 20, 07 4:08 PM CDT

      Iraq's Upper Class Flees

      More than 2 million Iraqis have left home, mostly crossing the borders into neighboring Jordan and Syria. And the upper class has been the first to go—robbing the country of the doctors, engineers and government officials necessary to rebuild it. With one of ten Iraqis living abroad, the war has become one of the largest refugee crises since the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, Der Spiegel reports. More »

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      Iraq  • inflation  • Syria  • unemployment  • refugee  • Jordan  • Iraqi refugees  • asylum  • overcrowding

    • Israel Rejects Refugees from Darfur Region

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Aug 19, 07 4:37 PM CDT

      Israel Rejects Refugees from Darfur Region

      Israel has turned back 48 Africans to Egypt and says it will no longer accept Darfur refugees who illegally enter the country, the AP reports. Some of the 50 migrants a day who have already snuck into the country will be allowed to stay, Israel says, but all others will be returned to Africa even if they face poverty or death. Critics are prompting questions over the Jewish state’s moral obligation toward targets of genocide. More »

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      Israel  • Africa  • Sudan  • Darfur  • Egypt  • genocide  • refugee  • asylum

    • After Uproar, Britain Reviews Asylum Policy

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Aug 8, 07 6:55 AM CDT

      After Uproar, Britain Reviews Asylum Policy

      A row over the fate of 91 Iraqi interpreters working for the British military took a new turn today, with the government promising to reexamine its refusal to grant them asylum. The Times of London, which broke the story on Tuesday, now reports that Gordon Brown has ordered a review of its asylum policy towards Iraqi translators, some of whom have faced torture and kidnapping for their alleged collaboration. More »

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      Iraq  • Gordon Brown  • kidnapping  • torture  • British military  • asylum  • interpreters  • Des Browne

    • New Van Gogh Surfaces

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Aug 3, 07 6:20 PM CDT

      New Van Gogh Surfaces

      A previously undiscovered Van Gogh has been found hiding in plain sight—beneath another painting. Conservators at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts X-rayed The Ravine , revealing another painting created several months earlier, the MFA and the Van Gogh Museum said today. A pen-and-ink drawing of the concealed painting, Wild Vegetation, is in the Amsterdam institution. More »

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      art  • painting  • Boston  • Amsterdam  • asylum  • Vincent Van Gogh

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