Maoist blitz sparks exodus fears
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With Maoist attacks on the rise in Nepal, authorities apprehend large-scale displacement of people. In fact, a good indicator of this âflight of passageâ is a newspaper report on Iraq-bound Nepalese that
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Migrants who can no longer sustain themselves by farming are flocking to brickyards to fuel the Indian construction boom.
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A three-week march against trafficking children into forced labour in South Asia sets off from Calcutta to Delhi.
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UK buyers take fright as thousands of illegally built homes are threatened with demolition
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Thousands of people fled from Gaza into Egypt early Wednesday after hearing explosions that reportedly blew holes in a border wall.
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Maoist rebels in Nepal harden their stance on the future of the country as their transport blockade bites.
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Frightened Westerners - many of them longtime residents of this former African economic success story - piled into buses, boats and planes Saturday as a French-run evacuation built, despite government promises to protect the expatriates from a surge of
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Authorities have evacuated dozens of the world's most primitive people from their tsunami-hit homelands in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, potentially exposing them to unwelcome outside influence.
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JOHANNESBURG The United Nations reported Thursday that thousands of civilians had fled a battle zone in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo near the Rwandan border, heightening fears that a civil war that claimed as many as three million lives in the
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Katmandu, Nepal, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A Maoist rebel blockade of the two major highways leading into Nepal&#39;s capital is affecting the flow of food and supplies, the BBC said Wednesday.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing a northwestern town and outlying villages because they fear a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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DONGGUAN, China -- Heralded by an unprecedented series of walkouts, the first stirrings of unrest have emerged among the millions of youthful migrant workers who supply seemingly inexhaustible cheap labor for the vast expanse of factories in China's booming Pearl River Delta.
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Nepalese soldiers check the bags of people heading for the capital at Naubise, 30 kilometres to the west. Maoists have set up blockades on routes to Kathmandu.
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The shock dismissal of the Nepalese government by King Gyanendra may fan a Maoist revolt wracking the kingdom that could spill into neighbouring India, analysts say.
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Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing into Afghanistan as the security situation worsens in tribal regions.
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KATHMANDU: Thousands of villagers have fled districts in Nepal&#39;s remote eastern region following threats by Maoist rebels to attack the area and set up a &quot;people&#39;s government,&quot; human rights and local officials said yesterday.
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BEIRUT -- More than 150 civilians fled from a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon yesterday as soldiers ringing the neighborhood moved up tanks and armored vehicles for a possible showdown with Islamic militants barricaded inside.