Prime Minister Julia Gillard is expected to take a tougher approach to border protection when she announces her policy on asylum seekers this week. Cabinet will today discuss the future of Sri Lankan asylum seekers who've been left in limbo since May

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美国司法部长确认之争加剧 A frustrated President Obama chastised the Senate Friday. 周五倍感沮丧的奥巴马总统严厉谴责了国会。 Enough. Enough. Call Loretta Lynch for a vote.Get her confirmed. Put her in place. Let her do

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we have heard the stories of refugees making long, often treacherous journeys across oceans and continents to escape war at home. But here's a reality - most people displaced by conflict never even leave their own countries. I

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Think of crafts and perhaps corn dollies and threaded baskets come to mind. But now the annual COLLECT craft fair has opened at London's Victoria and Albert Museum and it's a very classy affair. On of

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By Peter Heinlein Shimelba Refugee Camp, Northern Ethiopia 31 October 2007 Rising tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea have led to an increasing flow of refugees across their common frontier. A border war between the Horn of Africa neighbors from 19

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1. Ohio's attorney general says a grand jury will look into whether others broke the law by not speaking up after a teenage girl was raped by a pair of high school football players last summer. The two Steubenville boys were convicted Sunday. 2. The

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First of Japan Disaster Survivors Get Temporary Houses A month after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, more than 125,000 people remain in evacuation centers. Others are living with relatives. Most of th

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Canada steals the spotlight from Hollywood for 10 days every September when stars, filmmakers and audiences gather for the Toronto International Film Festival. This year's 35th annual film showcase concludes on Sunday. As a major film production cent

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In this report from Washington, Senior Correspondent Andr de Nesnera looks at Egypt's nuclear program and its stance on chemical weapons. With Egypt's political future still in limbo, analysts question whether Cairo's policy of not seeking nuclear we

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US Senate Votes to Consider Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants This is a time Ive been looking for for a long long time, admitted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, acknowledging the momentousness of winning bipartisan support for immigration reform.

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a lot at stake in this immigration debate not just for the DREAMers but for all the parents, siblings and other relatives who rely on them. NPR's Joel Rose has this profile of one DREAMer in Georgia who's gone public with

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: With a little help from blind luck, the late Maurice Sendak, who died in 2012, will have a new book out next year. Sendak wrote and illustrated Where The Wild Things Are, In The Night Kitchen. He illustrated the Little Bear serie

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A Land In Limbo Hopes That Books Will Keep It Going Let's go now to a book fair. The Hargeysa International Book Fair takes place in a country that is not internationally recognized. The Republic of Somaliland is a self-declared state. To the rest of

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Rejection gave birth to the Asian American Association (AAA). During first-year orientation week in 1976,two Asian American women decided to attend a Minority Freshman Banquet sponsored by the university, but were barred from entering and were turn

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By Noel King El Fasher, Sudan 05 June 2006 Sudanese children collect water from a well in the village of Brikatouly in South Darfur, Sudan The international community is pressing the parties in Sudan'

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 February 2008 The UNHCR says a comprehensive solution has been found that will enable some 218,000 Burundian refugees who fled to Tanzania in 1972 to end their lengthy exile and begin new lives, either in Tanzania or in Buru

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Brian Hanson hosts Sudanese leaders from the state of South Kordofan at Northwestern University in suburban Chicago Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, between the government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement. Both parties curren

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October 2nd, 1869There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything. Mohandas K. Gandhi, also known as the Mahatma or Great Soul, is born in India then under British colonial rule. Gandhis use of non-violent tactics as a political and

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October 2nd, 1869There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything. Mohandas K. Gandhi, also known as the Mahatma or Great Soul, is born in India then under British colonial rule. Gandhis use of non-violent tactic as a political and s

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's Day 21 of the partial federal government shutdown, and it's causing big financial concerns for hundreds of thousands of people who aren't getting paychecks today. Here's one example. Some furloughed workers can't refinance t

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