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Security fears in quake-hit Haiti
January
16, 2010
Security
concerns rise in Haiti's capital as distribution problems continue to hamper
the supply of aid to desperate quake survivors.
Days after the quake devastated Port-au-Prince, killing tens of thousands,
there are some reports of gangs preying on residents and looting. Officials
say thousands of prisoners are unaccounted for after the main prison was
destroyed. Relief has been arriving, but little has moved beyond the jammed
airport.
Vietnam police tear gas, beat Catholics over cross: priest
January
7, 2010
HANOI (AFP) - Several Vietnamese
Catholics were injured when police used electric prods and fired tear gas in
a dispute over a crucifix, a priest said Thursday. . .He
said parishioners had told him the police used electric prods, tear gas and
stones against the crowd, two of whom were seriously injured and taken to
Hanoi for treatment.
. .The clash, as described by the
priest, is one of the most serious incidents in a long-running series of
church-state land disputes.
China Bars Foreigners From Making Visits to Tibet
September 25, 2009
China has stopped issuing travel documents to foreigners
seeking to visit Tibet, according to local tour operators, another
indicator of the government’s skittishness over the coming anniversary
of the Communist victory in 1949.
U.S. Embassy in Honduras to stop issuing most visas
August 26, 2009
Americas - Honduras The United States will stop issuing
most visas on Wednesday at the U.S. Embassy in Honduras because the current
government is standing by its refusal to sign an accord that would bring
back overthrown President Manuel Zelaya.
East Asia / Pacific -
Japan
Japan rocked by major earthquake
July 16, 2007
An earthquake has struck central Japan, killing at least seven
people, flattening buildings and triggering a fire at a nuclear power plant.
Hundreds of people were injured when the 6.8-magnitude tremor struck the
Niigata area.
Europe - Russia
Lockdown for foreigners at Moscow school
April 19, 2007
A leading Moscow university ordered its foreign students on Thursday
to remain in their dormitories for the next three days because of fears of
ethnic violence before Adolf Hitler's birthday this weekend, students said.
Americas, East
Asia / Pacific, Middle East / N. Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa - Canada, China,
Egypt, Kenya, Somalia
Canadian Passport Has No Shield
Mar.
2, 2007
The lure of "home'' is powerful. But a Canadian passport is no guarantee
that citizens won't come to grief when they venture into perilous realms.
Europe - Russia
Feb. 5, 2007
Registration Rules Stir Up Confusion
Moscow, Russia: According to a new
law that came into effect Jan. 15, foreigners are now required to hand over
their registration papers to migration officials -- via their employer or
other sponsor -- every time they leave the country and re-register upon
subsequent entry into the country.
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Europe - Netherlands
North Sea Airborne
Chemical Danger
1/30/07
U.S.
Consulate General Amsterdam issued this warning to U.S. Citizens traveling
to and residing in the Netherlands that the Consulate has been informed that
a ship fire west of Amsterdam is releasing large amounts of Hydrogen-Cyanide
and Carbon-Monoxide into the air, which is blowing east towards Amsterdam
and north towards Beverwijk and Zaanstad.
Kidnap group leader nabbed
East Asia /
Pacific - Philippines
LINGAYEN -- A leader of the Pepino kidnap-for-ransom group was arrested
Wednesday in Bolinao, Pangasinan Wednesday, police officials said.
Foreign Workers Freed in Nigeria
Sub-Saharan Africa -
Nigeria Five
Chinese workers kidnapped in Nigeria's
oil-rich Niger Delta region have been freed.
Unidentified gunmen seized the group of
telecommunications engineers near the city
of Port Harcourt on 5 January.
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