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Hundreds of asylum seekers are saved from flimsy rubber dinghies adrift on the Mediterranean, as Libya-based people smugglers take advantage of a window of good mid-winter weather to send them to sea.
Topics: refugees, community-and-society, immigration, italy, nigeria, bangladesh, guinea, sudan
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| UpdatedButchers selling halal meat in Coffs Harbour have stopped advertising that they do after being subjected to abuse.
Topics: refugees, regional, food-and-cooking, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, multiculturalism, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444, burma, sudan, afghanistan
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport dismisses a Perth athlete's bid to represent South Sudan, rejecting claims he was excluded because of another athlete's advertising deal.
Topics: olympics-summer, sport, wa, australia, sudan
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| UpdatedA woman who migrated to Australia as a refugee in the 1980s says she is constantly reminded of the stark contrast between her two homes.
Topics: immigration, unrest-conflict-and-war, film-movies, community-and-society, regional, mental-health, wagga-wagga-2650, sudan
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| UpdatedPhotos and words by freelance photographer Sebastian Rich who brings to us some of the thousands of smiles he has witnessed amid the cruel contours of war and disruption around the world.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, photography, unrest-conflict-and-war, children, somalia, nigeria, afghanistan, sudan
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| UpdatedIn this episode: The indigenous prisoners' art program that’s changing lives, the endangered species of the NSW highland swamps, helping the child soldiers of South Sudan and the roadie turned reverend. #AustraliaWide.
Topics: environment, visual-art, indigenous-policy, religion-and-beliefs, australia, sudan
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| UpdatedA group in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, where journalists are banned from entering, is training locals to report on the region's otherwise undocumented war.
Topics: journalism, information-and-communication, unrest-conflict-and-war, sudan
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| UpdatedRefugee and migrant students studying at TAFE Townsville have gained valuable work experience thanks to a partnership with the Townsville Hospital.
Topics: refugees, adult-education, university-and-further-education, education-industry, community-and-society, townsville-4810, thailand, sudan
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| UpdatedBritain grants asylum to a Sudanese man who made global headlines in August when he walked 50 kilometres through the Channel Tunnel from France to England.
Topics: refugees, world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, united-kingdom, sudan
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| UpdatedA Townsville teacher co-ordinates an exhibition of photographic portraits to share the stories of refugees and migrants with their new community.
Topics: refugees, immigration, languages, photography, fine-art-photography, community-and-society, townsville-4810, australia, sudan, congo, somalia, greece, burma, thailand
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Topics: refugees, immigration, languages, photography, fine-art-photography, community-and-society, townsville-4810, australia, sudan, congo, somalia, greece, burma, thailand
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| UpdatedTopics: books-literature, unrest-conflict-and-war, refugees, sudan, coffs-harbour-2450, byron-bay-2481
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| UpdatedTopics: books-literature, author, refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, sudan, ethiopia, kenya, byron-bay-2481, coffs-harbour-2450
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| UpdatedThe ongoing civil war in South Sudan has been one of the world's bloodiest conflicts, claiming tens of thousands of lives and driving 20 per cent of the population from their homes.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, sudan
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Kevin Carter's photograph led to backlash against the photographer but ultimately discussion about world hunger.
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| UpdatedSudanese president Omar al-Bashir flies home from South Africa despite a court banning him from leaving as it decided whether to order his arrest over alleged war crimes.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, refugees, immigration, sudan
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A South African court issues a temporary ban on Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir leaving the country after the International Criminal Court called for him to be arrested over alleged crimes against humanity during the Darfur conflict.
Topics: international-law, law-crime-and-justice, crime, sudan
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Aliir Aliir's journey from refugee to a burgeoning AFL talent has developed with the support of his large family network.
Topics: australian-football-league, refugees, family, sydney-2000, brisbane-4000, kenya, sudan
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Ivory-hungry poachers kill 30 elephants in a Democratic Republic of Congo national park in the past two weeks, park authorities say.
Topics: animals, animal-welfare, crime, law-crime-and-justice, congo-the-democratic-republic-of-the, sudan
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| UpdatedThey were supposed to be sitting for exams, but hundreds of South Sudanese children are now feared to be on their way to the front line as the country's civil war drags on.
Topics: child-abuse, unrest-conflict-and-war, sudan
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The UN children's agency says it fears hundreds of boys were kidnapped last month in the north-east of South Sudan, raising suspicions that the abductors were from a pro-government militia.
Topics: children, defence-forces, law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, sudan
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| UpdatedGunmen in war-ravaged South Sudan abduct at least 89 boys - some as young as 13 - from their school in oil-rich Upper Nile State, the United Nations says.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, sudan
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| UpdatedSouth Sudan calls off elections due in June and its cabinet plans to ask parliament to extend president Salva Kiir's term, a government spokesman says.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, world-politics, sudan