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As the world works to resolve a major internationalrefugee crisis, Australia just wants them to go away.At the recent World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to find new long-term solutions for refugees.In Australia, however, political debate is more often about ways to stop refugees from reaching the country, especially in the lead up to that country's national election on July 2.Amid a record number of displaced people around the world, including an estimated nine million people in Asia, restrictive asylum policies have implications for refugee protection across the region and the world.There are only a handful of signatories to the Refugee Convention in Southeast Asia, and Australia is one of them.It therefore has a responsibility to offer access to fair and efficient procedures for the determination of refugee claims. Refugees turned back at sea Currently, a policy of turning back asylum seeker boats ...

From carousels to roller coasters, part of summer fun for many kids is a trip to the local carnival or a nearby amusement park. But experts are warning that children need to be supervised on rides because of the risk of injuries.      On Monday, three girls were injured after falling from a Ferris wheel at a county fair in eastern Tennessee. A 10-year-old boy was killed Sunday on the world's tallest water slide in Kansas.Researchers from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, studied Consumer Product Safety Commission information on youngsters who were taken to emergency rooms for amusement ride injuries during a 20-year period. Their study, published in the May 2013 issue of thejournal Clinical Pediatrics, looked at fixed-site rides, such as those at major amusement parks, aswell as mobile rides, which included rides at local carnivals, state fairs and shopping mall arcades.The rides "included anything from coin-operated rides to Ferris wheels, carousels,...

11 premature babies have been killed after fire covered  a hospital in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, hospital and security officials say. The fire which broke out late on Tuesday inside the maternity unit at the Yarmouk Hospital was extinguished after three hours, but that wasn't fast enough to save the 11 premature babies while 7 other children and 29 women had to be moved to nearby hospitals. Their Ministry of Health has blamed an electrical fault for the calamity but that didn't stop family members who lost their children and their beloved from taking shades against the government.Hussein Omar, a 30-year-old builder, told the Associated Press; "I only found charred pieces of flesh, I want my baby boy and girl back.  The government must give them back to me. "Eshrak Ahmed Jaasar, 41, who was unable to find her four-day-old nephew."I came early this morning to see my nephew and his mother, but they told me about the fire," she told AP. My nephew ...

. The model was spotted leaving Bieber’s LA home early in the morning, where she rocked a baggy pair of printed joggers —and if they look familiar, that’s because you’ve seen them before on the Justin. It definitely looks like things are heating up for the both of them. Justin Bieber, 22, is certainly enjoying his well-deserved time off! Fresh off a sexy trip to Hawaiiwhere he stripped down alongside Australia Beauty Sahara Ray, the Biebs was back in LA, where he was spotted getting cozy with 17-year-old model Sofia Richie. The pair was seen enjoying a low-key beachdate on Aug. 8, where the couple were seen holding hands as they strolled in the sand and climbed on rocks. While it all seemed like innocent fun, Sofia had heads turning whenshe was seen leaving  Justin’s home early in the morning on August. 9, all while rocking a Calvin Klein sports bra and underwear, the waistband visible beneath her baggy men’sFAITH CONNEXION‘Hawaii’ printtrack pants. Does her casual look se...

Kendall wants to settle down? A new report  now reveals that she is dating A$AP Rocky, and why she’s choosing him over NBA star Jordan Clarkson. Kendall, 20, andA$AP Rocky, 27, are “full-on-dating,” a source tells Us Weekly‘s July 22 issue.They’ve been linked together for a couple of times.In July 2016 they were seen having an romantic dinner date, thought at the time sources said Kendall was just having a “good time” with the rapper. Funny right!!! In fact, Kendall and A$AP have been sparking rumors since February 2016 when he stopped by her PacSun launch in New York City. However, Kendall has also been romantically linked to L.A Lakers star Jordan Clarkson, 24. It seems that she has decided to stick with A$AP over Jordan though. Kendall apparently loves that A$AP is so heavily involved in the fashion world, the report claims. “They’re both major players. They have lots to talk about,” the source explained, revealing what exactly made Kendall to choose A$AP more than Jo...

   Suri Cruise is living  a normal, loving and sweet  life with her mom Katie Holmes, but something is missing in her which is very important,her father, Tom Cruise.  Tom, according to a new report, hasn’t seen his 10-year-old daughter for three years  After divorcing husband Tom Cruise, 54, in 2012,Katie Holmes, 37, started taking care of their daughter,Suri Cruise, now 10. Tom, according to a source “close to Katie,” who spoke toOKmagazine, took this as a cue to stop seeing his youngest child altogether.He has not seen her for  three years now.While Katie has custody of Suri, there was no order or restraint whatsoever to keep him away from their daughter. But the Church of Scientology allegedly forced Tom to cut off contact with both Katie and Suria fter declaring them “suppressive persons,” according to the source.  A suppressive person, or SP, is someone that Scientology believes has antisocial or negative influences on the ...

Chairman of PDP caretaker committee, Ahmed Makarfi, has said that those blaming PDP for the current state of the nation are being hypocrites. Makarfi said this while speaking during an interview with Channels TV this morning."When I look at those who blame our party I laugh.  Most of them were only in PDP justbefore the election. They should rather saythey are blaming themselves. If you have been in PDP sixteen years and then because you want to win election you jump ship and join another party and then start castigating This hypocracy in our politics will not take us anywhere. Yes we made our own mistakes but we also recorded successes" he said. Makarfi while speaking on the anti-corruption campaign of the Buhari-led government said:"It is easier to point fingers of corruption atthose who are not in power. If today the situation is reversed, those who fingers will be pointed at will be people who wouldhave served in the APC administration and that is the unfortunat...

Who doesn't miss Paul?? We all do! and there can be some truth in this Just After Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s major diss at a fellow ‘Fast and the Furious 8’ star, is the family bond on set tearing apart ? “The family atmosphere that the cast had is no longer there and it feels now more like a job on set. Paul was the voice of reason on the set and with him no longer there the egos have surpassed family. It is a shame since it was such a cool family. Paul’s death has changed a lot of things for the movie both professionally and personally,” Paul Walker‘s tragic and furious death in a fiery Nov 30, 2013 car crash happened in themiddle of filming furious 7,and was quite a blow to the cast, especially Vin Diesel, 49, who worked beside him from the very beginning of the franchise. It sounds like this time around doing their first full film without Paul is really taking its toll. It was said on Aug. 9 that there was total tension and anger among the cast afterDwayne ‘The Rock...

Awww!!!! Rupert Grint has been ordered to pay his $1.3m tax...No magic is saving him  There’s no magic that can save Rupert Grint from the tax collector. The ‘Harry Potter’ star has been ordered to pay $1.3 million of his fortune, See here how he fell into such a mess  The 27-year-old may be a such w talented young man on the screen BT he might not really know how to manage his accounts and finances. By putting his trust in his father and his accountant, they put him in a situation where he’s being asked and forced  to pay $1.3 million in back taxes due to some numerical trickery.    He allowed Clay & Associates to change his accounting date so that 20 months of income would be taxed in the calendar year 2009-2010.That means he had eight months of income that he didn’t declare in 2010-11 and since he was making bank at the time — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One had just come out — he was being taxed in a high income bracket in his native...

Sitting in front of his high-end computer, staring intently at the screen, chunky headphones on and mouse busily clicking away, Omar Omsen looks like a regular office worker.Only the camouflage t-shirt and the tent walls billowing around him offer a hint that this is no ordinary workplace, but the epicenter of jihadi recruitment in Syria.The clip he's working on is not a pop video or newsreel but a piece of radical Islamist propaganda, in praise of the "Charlie Hebdo" attackers who killed 12 people in Paris in January 2015. Omsen -- a.k.a. Omar Diaby He is France's "super jihadist."Through his series of online videos, released underthe name "19HH" (a tribute to the 19 perpetrators of the September 11 attacks), French authorities say he is responsible for recruiting about 80% of French-speaking jihadis heading to Syria and Iraq.The clips fuse Hollywood special effects, rap music, religion and conspiracy theories in an attempt to convince young ...

Donald Trump appeared to have suggested that if Hillary Clinton was elected president, the only way to stop her choosing a liberal Supreme Court justice would be to assassinate her."If she gets to pick her judges, nothing youcan do folks," Trump said during a speech on Tuesday in North Carolina. "Although, the Second Amendment, people, maybe there is. I don't know."The Second Amendment protects an American's right to bear arms. Trump's comment came during a rally in Wilmington, Delaware, and was immediately seized on by commentators as the latest example of the tycoon's offhand language.Shortly after the outrage, in a statement, Trump's campaign blamed the "dishonest media" for overblowing his remarks, adding that the tycoon was only calling forsupporters of the Second Amendment to rally around him, vote for him and protect the second amendment."It's called the power of unification," Jason Miller, senior communications ...