Afghan refugees' camp 'extended'
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Afghan refugees in Pakistan's largest camp are given another six months to relocate, media reports say.
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Science & environment: Demand for food in refugee camps is leading to an unprecedented massacre of local wildlife, new reports claim. Stuart Coles investigates
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The chief of the British Army has defended the military operation in Afghanistan after it was reported that soldiers there were being stretched to &quot;the brink of exhaustion&quot; by the Taliban.
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Pakistan will close down four Afghan refugee camps this year as part of its bid to stop Taliban militants launching cross-border attacks in Afghanistan, according to officials.
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The UN repeats an appeal for Pakistan to suspend Friday's closure of a huge Afghan refugee camp.
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Four Britons detained on the war-torn Somalian-Kenyan border three weeks ago flew back to the UK and were held for nine hours under the Terrorism Act before being released.Comment
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The United States has released 11 Afghans held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on suspicion of Taliban links after a request from President Hamid Karzai, an Afghan official said on Wednesday.
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A junior British minister said that people living in camps after fleeing their villages because of conflict in Sudan's Darfur region lived in fear of leaving their temporary homes despite a greater presence now of aid workers.
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The time has come to consider extending the 28-day limit on holding terror suspects before charge, the home secretary says.
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The troops, who are doing humanitarian work, were due to leave by 14 December. But the deadline may be extended, according to a government spokesman.
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The government on Thursday unveiled controversial plans to extend the length of time terrorism suspects can be held by police and questioned without charge from 28 to 42 days.
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LISBON, Aug 9 (IPS) - A proposed European Union (EU) directive imposing   tighter restrictions on granting political asylum is causing  major concern  to refugee councils across the 15 nations that  comprised the EU until the  bloc's May 1 expansion to 25  countries.
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The Taliban kidnappers of 23 Korean hostages on Sunday extended the deadline for the South Korean government to agree to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 24 hours to 10:30 a.m. EDT on Monday.
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An estimated 152,000 East Timorese who fled their homes in the wake of violence in May remain in camps because they are too afraid to return home, the UN humanitarian coordinator here said.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops seized more territory inside a Palestinian refugee camp in pitched battles on Tuesday against al Qaeda-inspired militants, security sources said.
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The Afghan militant group holding three UN workers hostage on Friday extended their deadline until Saturday night to allow the Afghan government and the United Nations to hold talks with them, a spokesman for the group said.
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Taleban militants holding 23 South Koreans hostage in Afghanistan extend the deadline for reaching a deal.