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...Prime Minister Marek Belka lost a parliamentary vote of confidence just two weeks after taking up the post. Lawmakers now have two weeks to put up an alternative candidate, but few expect a successful consensus to be reached. Safe Haven SOUTH AFRICA The government announced it would grant temporary asylum to ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who fled his country at the end of February in the face of an armed revolt. Pretoria also said it would support an investigation into Aristide's claim that he was forced to step down by the U.S. and France as rebels closed...
Ahmed Zaoui knows just how hard the country can be. In December 2002, the fugitive Algerian politician stepped off a plane from Malaysia, asked for asylum - and was hustled, under heavy police guard, into a maximum-security jail. Zaoui, a member of his country's banned Islamic Salvation Front party, had been convicted by Algerian, Belgian and French courts of assisting or associating with terrorists. Declaring those rulings "unsafe," New Zealand's Refugee Status Appeals Authority granted Zaoui asylum last August. But the government insisted that his "continued presence in New Zealand constitutes a threat to national security...
...Castros, Mugabes, Assads and Kim Jong-Il’s of the world. Such amoral legitimizing of totalitarian thugs alongside democratic statesmen once prompted former U.S. ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan to call the United Nations “a theater of the absurd, a decomposing corpse, and an insane asylum...
Before the U.S. could begin to help Haiti rebuild its ravaged democracy last week, it first had to remove a raving demagogue. Not President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had already resigned on Feb. 29 and flown to asylum in Africa. Now the headache was Guy Philippe, whose rebel army had forced Aristide out--and whose triumphant entry into the capital, Port-au-Prince, lavishly upstaged the simultaneous arrival of hundreds of U.S. Marines. After sweeping the city of Aristide's armed gangs, the baby-faced Philippe, 36, declared himself Haiti's new "commander in chief," despite the fact that Haiti...
...rebels moved on the capital. He called U.S. Ambassador James Foley to ask for help getting out. "You haven't thought where you're going until now?" Foley asked with exasperation, according to a senior State Department official. As diplomats scrambled to find him an asylum, Moreno, the second-in-command at the U.S. embassy, set out for Aristide's home...