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UNFPA Report on Immigrants
Western prejudices are largely ill-founded
Evidence shows that certain prejudices about immigrants that prevail in the industrialised world are largely ill-founded, the United Nations Population Fund said in its annual report yesterday Theseinclude
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Stop abuse of migrant women
UN appeal to world leaders
The United Nations appealed to world leaders yesterday to wake up to the widespread mistreatment of migrant women, a silent human army abused as everything from sex workers to domestic slaves.
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Baluchistan on strike over Bugti's killing
Parts of the troubled southwest Pakistani province of Baluchistan were paralysed yesterday by a strike called by opposition parties to protest the killing of a rebel tribal chief.
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British cops free 2 of 14 terror suspects
British police released without charge two of the 14 people arrested over the weekend in the latest anti-terror raid in Britain, a police spokeswoman said yesterdayThe two men, identified by police only
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Drug Smuggling
5 more Australians to die in Indonesia
Five Australians have been sentenced to death for drug smuggling in Indonesia after a supreme court judge handed down tougher sentences in response to their appeals, a court spokesman said yesterdayAcourt
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Launch of Atlantis delayed
The launch of space shuttle Atlantis has been delayed 24 hours, until today, due to a technical glitch, a NASA spokesman said.
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Terror Charges
Two Muslims remanded in Denmark
Two of the nine men arrested by Danish police on suspicion of planning acts of terrorism were remanded in custody for four weeks, a Danish court said yesterdayJudge Ingrid Therkelsen ruled that five others
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