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...first major incursion since Pakistan promised a crackdown on such groups. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee rejected calls by Pakistan for new talks. JAPAN Cabinet Kerfuffle Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi scrambled to replace Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka after impetuously sacking her and her deputy following parliamentary squabbles. When former unhcr chief Sadako Ogata turned down the post, Koizumi appointed Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi after temporarily holding the portfolio himself. The Prime Minister?s approval rating plummeted during the crisis. MIDDLE EAST New Challenges For Israelis Thousands of Palestinians attended a symbolic funeral for Wafa Idris, the first woman suicide bomber...
...respond compassionately by opening the border gates?but only after any U.S. attacks begin. Once that happens, the Afghans will be allowed to stay in spartan camps just inside the frontier. Providing for them will be a formidable challenge. Already, officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are scouting out locations within the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan's government estimates a need for about 100 new camps, each able to shelter 10,000 people. "Water is scarce," says UNHCR's spokesman Rupert Colville in Quetta, "There has been a drought for three years." Relief officials...
...open their war chests to fight international terrorism, but the test of how willing they are to help the inevitable victims from the fallout of this battle is just beginning. After years of donor neglect of Afghanistan?caused, in part, by the Taliban's oppressive treatment of women?the UNHCR has launched an appeal for nearly $600 million in emergency refugee aid. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is chipping in $40 million for the Afghans and an additional $17.6 million for Pakistanis living in the impoverished border region. Germany quickly followed suit with a pledge of $7 million...
...Villagers from Kada, near the border town of Betun, claim that a bus driver working for militia leader Olivio Mendoza Moruk bashed two local boys last September. In response, angry villagers killed Moruk. Blaming the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Moruk's confederates then descended on the UNHCR compound in Atambua, butchering three workers; blood still stains the ransacked office. Igidio Manek, who seized a teenage girl at Suai as a war prize, continued his half-brother Olivio's businesses until he was arrested last month for corruption. "Militiamen are greedy criminals," says a senior Indonesian police officer...
Snicker if you will--it's certainly understandable--but ANGELINA JOLIE actually earned the title of goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. While filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in Cambodia, Jolie, 26, met former refugees who told her about the UNHCR. When she called requesting information, the organization offered to make her an ambassador on the spot. Rather than immediately accept, Jolie paid her own way to visit Africa, Cambodia and Pakistan to meet relief workers and refugees. Jolie accepted the title last week, and details of her African diary are available on the U.N. website. Besides...