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US to aid groups: Feed the starving, even if Al Qaeda gets collateral benefits

Many aid organizations pulled out of Somalia after Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab took over much of the country, partly due to concerns that US officials would prosecute them for aiding the enemy.
At summer school, Iraqi refugees in Syria try to catch up

Displaced by war, children of Iraqi refugees enter ambitious programs to help compensate for missed school and the mental stresses of war. But Iraqi enrollment in Syrian schools has dropped 30 percent in the past year.
Locked out: The 12 million people without a country, and the need to become a citizen

The victims of shifting borders, politics, or the happenstance of birthplace, the world's 12 million stateless people and their need to become citizens are rising on the international human rights agenda.
Iraqi Christians: Better off than other Iraqi refugees?

Arab Christians in the US and elsewhere help facilitate the resettlement of Iraqi Christians fleeing violence in Iraq. Is the Western media overplaying the challenges facing Christians in Iraq?
Court ruling looms on disputed Sudan oil-town

Over four years after a peace agreement ended Sudan's bloody civil war a ruling in the Hague may resolve control of a rich oil field, but may also spark more conflict.
Pakistan begins returning Swat Valley refugees home

The process will be closely watched by the US and other foreign governments for signs of Pakistan's ability to deal with the Taliban.
In breakaway Somaliland, a bid to be stable regional citizen

The unrecognized territory hosts tens of thousands of Somali refugees and is trying and imprisoning pirates.
World's top envoy entreats Burma (Myanmar)

United Nations chief Ban Ki Moon arrived Thursday and hopes to meet Burma's leader Gen. Than Shwe today.
Simple sun-cooker takes off as a way to help Darfuris

Grass-roots giving for the solar cooker, donated to women who fled Darfur, takes root in the US.