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Barack Obama enforces US immigration overhaul
BBC NEWS
Millions of immigrants living illegally in the US will be allowed to apply for work permits under a major shake-up unveiled by President Barack Obama.
UN appeal as Syrian refugees flood over Turkish border
BBC NEWS
The UN refugee agency says Turkey urgently needs help to care for 130,000 Syrian refugees who have crossed the border in recent days.
Iraq crisis: Baiji oil refinery contested
BBC NEWS
Iraqi government forces are battling Sunni Muslim militants for control of the country's biggest oil refinery.
President Mitt Romney?
by Dickson Igwe
Barack Obama’s Inauguration at the Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 20, 2009 was a profoundly historic day for modern America. Beginning with freedom from slavery 150 years ago, the election of a coloured US President was a crucial page in the story of the American Negro. Freedom for blacks in the US was an incremental process that started at the time of fratricidal Civil War in the 1860s. But true freedom came with the end of Jim Crow a century later.
UPDATE - VI says NO to same sex marriages!
By ANEKA EDWARDS
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Marriage tourism was advocated by House of Assembly members during the debate of the Marriage Amendment Act, 2012 on May 10, 2012, but it will not include same sex marriages, a Government official announced.