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There are far more hospitable places than the Red Cross refugee center in Sangatte, in northern France, a stinking hangar crammed with over 1,600 asylum seekers and surrounded by police and a high wire fence. But that's exactly where 99 Iraqi Kurd and Afghan migrants badly wanted to be last week. we want to go to Sangatte or to die, read one handmade banner held aloft by a group of young men who occupied the Calais Church of Saint Pierre-Saint Paul, about 8 km from Sangatte. Most had paid thousands of dollars to people smugglers...
...Lily Chung is the prettiest, most pathetic patient in an asylum for retarded young adults. Ben Ng is the institution?s caring, friendly boss ? except when he sees a woman dressed in red. Then he morphs into a twitching, grinning, blood-drooling rapist. He attacks her, is tried for the crime and acquitted. Still he desires her, with a white-hot lust that has him emptying a tray of ice cubes in his briefs to stanch the testosterone surge. After the rape, she had shaved her pubis from pain and shame; now shaves his head to become a priest...
...were born in Germany began to wonder about our identity, and young parents began to realize they wanted to pass something on to their kids." The Sivas incident remains a sore point in Germany, where a man convicted of instigating the attack has been granted political asylum and the applications of two others are pending. Alevi leaders are using their newfound political muscle to fight for the perpetrators' extradition to Turkey. But many of the younger Alevis have raised the question: What would Haji Bektash...
...city takes in 1,000 new pupils from abroad; those who do badly on a state-administered intelligence test - from Namibian child soldiers and destitute Angolese to poor kids from the mountains of Morocco - come to Roks' school. But the Fortuyn effect has already almost halved the rate of asylum seekers entering the Netherlands from last year's total of nearly 33,000. Since his budget comes from state allocations that can range as high as ?10,000 per student, Roks is already thinking about how the school will support itself in the harsher environment. "We don't have high...
...next year. Pas narrowly beat a member of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's United Malays National Organization to win the state assembly seat. AUSTRALIA Runaways An Irish backpacker, Jonathan O'Shea, was charged with helping two boys flee the troubled Woomera detention center in South Australia. The boys - whose asylum bid was rejected by the British consulate in Melbourne - were handed over to police and then flown back to Woomera. Australia's Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said 14-year-old Alamdar Bakhtiyari and his brother Muntazer, 12, were neither refugees nor from Afghanistan, but Pakistanis whose father lived in Sydney...