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Daily News Roundup – 13 August 2012

  Europe Thousands flee fires in the Canary Islands as blazes sweep Spain Rampant forest fires on La Gomera, in Spain’s Canary Islands, have forced the evacuation of more than 5,000 people since Friday, with 910 taken by...
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WATCH: Ordinary Lives Displaced by Land Grabs

“In My Place” is a five-minute film from Oxfam, starring ordinary people from around the world, intended to raise awareness of the disruption and injustice of land deals between governments, banks and private investors. Res...
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Daily News Roundup – 1 October 2012

   Europe Eurozone unemployment reaches new heights Unemployment in the eurozone hit a fresh high of 18.2 million in August, according to the EU statistics agency.  The number of people out of work rose by 49,000, but re...
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Daily News Roundup – 16 January 2013

  Africa Foreigners ‘abducted’ by Algerian Islamists Islamist militants in eastern Algeria are reported to have abducted several foreigners in what the British Foreign Office says is a “terrorist incident”.  At least ...
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Human Rights

Condemning honour killings as a moral relativist

Today’s shameful news that a Pakistani couple have killed their daughter by beating her and then burning 60% of her body with acid for daring to look at a boy presents me with a dilemma. I don’t believe that there is a mo...
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Daily News Roundup – 10 October 2012

  Europe German law to explicitly legalise circumcision The German government is to present new legislation intended to end a legal dispute over the religious tradition of circumcision.  In June this year, a regional cour...
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Daily News Roundup – 8 October 2012

  Europe Eurozone rescue fund to be launched The European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the eurozone’s new permanent fund to bail out struggling economies and banks, will be launched later today at a meeting of finance mini...
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Daily News Roundup – 23 July 2012

  Europe Markets rattled by more speculation over Spain’s regional debts Heavily indebted regional governments in Spain are at the centre of fears that they will push the national government into seeking a bailout for th...
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WATCH: The Story of International Adoption

Stuck is a new award-winning documentary film covering the real-life stories of children and parents navigating the international adoption system – a frequently tumultuous sea of bureaucratic and legal hazards in which famil...
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