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Two years and US$8 million later, UNHCR has dramatically improved the lives of many left homeless by Myanmar's worst natural disaster.

With winter approaching, the UN refugee agency calls for better conditions for 75,000 people still uprooted by June violence.

An on-line music contest is raising Japanese awareness of refugee issues, and money for Dadaab refugee camp.

The UN refugee agency expresses alarm at a deterioration in the treatment of uprooted Somali civilians, both inside Somalia and in the surrounding region.

UN Refugee Chief says root causes of the conflict still need to be addressed.

Under an innovative scheme, some refugees from Myanmar are preparing for office jobs in the United States even while living in a Thai jungle.

By CATHERINE GASCHKA 2010-07-29T13:47:06Z VILLERS-AU-TERTRE, France (AP) -- A French woman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor said Thursday....

French prosecutors said Thursday they charged a woman with murder after she admitted giving birth to and killing eight babies in northern France. The woman said she hid the pregnancies and deaths from her husband, who had no idea what she had done a prosecutor said. FULL STORY l PRESS CONFERENCE

LILLE, France (Reuters) - A 47-year-old woman has confessed to suffocating her eight new-born children and hiding their bodies in a village in northern France, the public prosecutor said on Thursday.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai questioned on Thursday the willingness of his Western allies to strike insurgent bases in Pakistan given the strong evidence of Islamabad's support for the Taliban.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The Syrian government advised the United States on Thursday against interfering with a visit by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to Damascus and said the two countries "know better" how to stabilize the Middle East.

PARIS (Reuters) - Police questioned French Labor Minister Eric Woerth Thursday as a witness in an investigation into a political donations scandal that has rocked the government.

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER 2010-07-29T13:18:52Z BERLIN (AP) -- The world's third most wanted Nazi suspect, who allegedly participated in the murder of more than 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp, was involved in the entire killing process: From taking victims from trains to pushing them into gas chambers to throwing their corpses into mass graves, according to court documents....

By FARID HOSSAIN 2010-07-29T13:07:18Z DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Bangladesh has raised minimum monthly wages for its millions of garment workers by about 80 percent after months of violent protests over poor pay and conditions, a government minister said....

By SYLVIA HUI 2010-07-29T13:04:25Z LONDON (AP) -- A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill - described as the teeth that saved the world - sold at auction Thursday for 15,200 pounds ($23,723.)...

DUISBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Angry protesters demanded on Thursday that police and local officials be held accountable for the deaths of 21 revelers in a stampede at a German "Love Parade" music festival.