Tuesday, September 22, 2009

World Watch: Gimme Shelter…revisited

* France: Several hundred illegal immigrants could be deported back to their home countries after French police bulldozed a makeshift refugee camp nicknamed “the jungle.”

* World: The United Nations General Assembly session opened on Tuesday with Chinese President Hu Jintao claiming that his country would lower carbon emissions over the next decade.

* Middle East: U.S. President Barack Obama dropped a demand to stop Israeli settlements as a concession for possible peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

* Sudan: Over eighty people were murdered in a southern Sudanese village by militia in attack blamed on the country’s federal government.

Image- AP (“Bulldozers clear the makeshift camp known as the "Jungle" after migrants were evacuated in Calais, northern France, Tuesday Sept. 22, 2009.”)
Online Sources- BBC News, CNN, Guardian UK, MSNBC, Reuters

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