Word: iraq
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wasan Aljanaby, the journey from her native Iraq to the U.S. was long and convoluted: with her husband and young son, she fled first to Jordan, then Turkey, Argentina and Ecuador. Everywhere they went, inhospitable immigration rules prevented them from even trying to put down roots. It wasn't until they were finally granted asylum in the U.S. last year that the Aljanabys could finally unpack their lives and settle down...
...group that still regards it as a city of hope: Iraqi refugees. Like previous waves of Arabs fleeing violence and political upheaval - or merely seeking new economic opportunity - thousands of Iraqis have been arriving in the Detroit metropolitan area since 2007, when the Bush Administration began accepting refugees from Iraq. (See TIME's photo-essay "Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline...
...undoubted benefit of the U.N. meeting is that it put climate change back in the headlines, at least for a day. Between the recession, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the problems with Iran - even the fact that it hasn't been a dramatically warm year for much of the world - climate change had dropped somewhat on the international agenda. That will always be a risk for this most long-term of challenges, where the penalties and payoffs of policy changes will unfold over decades. "The true test of leadership is to take the long view," Ban said...
...brand by making the daily a seven-day-a-week operation like its acclaimed news website. Moreover, the Guardian and Observer cultures have never fully meshed. The Guardian, a great newspaper, sometimes gives off a distinct whiff of sanctity. The Observer is more irreverent. It controversially supported the Iraq war, which the Guardian opposed. There's nothing so bitter as a disagreement between liberals...
...least because about 1,800 other illegal immigrants are still hiding under bridges, in abandoned buildings or in the woods elsewhere on the French coast. Under European law, refugees are required to settle in the first E.U. country in which they land. For the thousands fleeing Afghanistan and Iraq, that usually means Greece, where the government grants asylum to only about 1% of refugees. "There are huge, huge differences between countries in the chance of being recognized as a refugee," says Wilbert van Hövell, regional representative in Brussels for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which...