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''UNHCR's assessment, based on recent visits to PNG, is that there are currently significant shortcomings in the legal framework for receiving and processing asylum-seekers from Australia. These include a lack of national capacity and expertise in processing, and poor physical conditions within.... |
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The train races into view, and in the space of a heartbeat, the cars derail and crash into a wall of concrete, flipping onto their sides and skidding along the track with terrifying speed and force. |
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''UNHCR's assessment, based on recent visits to PNG, is that there are currently significant shortcomings in the legal framework for receiving and processing asylum-seekers from Australia. These include a lack of national capacity and expertise in processing, and poor physical conditions within.... |
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Pope Francis has called on the world's rich to wipe out inequalities and visited Brazil's famed Copacabana beach, where he mingled with an ecstatic crowd estimated at 1 million people. |
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King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain visited the victims of the train crash which claimed 80 lives on Wednesday evening in the city of Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. |
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UN refugees chief issues scathing assessment of Rudd's plans to send asylum seekers to PNG. |
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The driver of the train that crashed in Spain, killing at least 80 people including one American, was detained and put under formal investigation Thursday after security video showed the train derailed after speeding around a tight curve. |
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Ste-Agnès church was filled with the soothing harmonies of a brass quintet on Thursday, even as the town of Lac-Mégantic began facing the harsh reality that some of its missing citizens may never be found. |
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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA: Spanish police were set to grill Thursday the driver of a train that hurtled off the rails at high speed, killing at least 80 |
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday issued his first social manifesto, calling on the rich to wipe out vast inequalities, and later received an ecstatic welcome from up to a million people on Rio's famed Copacabana beach. |