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Evangelos Marinakis receives green light after 'wonderful' Nottingham Forest decision

Latest Nottingham Forest news as the Reds supporters react to an update on the club's shirt sponsor for the rest of the season

Nottingham Post

Evangelos Marinakis 'honoured' as Nottingham Forest announce new shirt sponsor

Latest Nottingham Forest news from NottinghamshireLive as Reds prepare for Premier League restart

Nottingham Post

Angelina Jolie stepped down from her UN role but has more humanitarian work in mind

For more than 20 years, actor Angelina Jolie has aided the United Nation in its efforts to support refugees. But that partnership came to an official end on Friday.

Los Angeles Times

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Angelina Jolie to step down from UN refugee envoy role after 20 years

Actress calls time on efforts, stating desire to ‘work differently’ with refugees

Evening Standard

Angelina Jolie Leaves UN Refugee Agency after More than 20 Years

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie will quit her role as a special envoy for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) but will remain a humanitarian activist, the United Nations said on Friday. Jolie, who has been on more than 60 field assignments during her 21 years with UNHCR, said she wanted to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Angelina Jolie leaves U.N. refugee agency after more than 20 years

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie will quit her role as a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) but will remain a humanitarian activist, the United Nations said on Friday.

Reuters

‘I want to go outside’: First Nauru refugees finally find freedom

Six men held for years after trying to get to Australia by boat look forward to starting new lives in New Zealand.

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UN to send displaced Ukrainians USDC to convert into local currencies

Aid recipients will get funds in the stablecoin USDC, which can be redeemed at any MoneyGram location.

Fortune

Costa Rica tightens overwhelmed asylum system

Faced with an overwhelmed asylum system, Costa Rica, one of the world’s great refuges for those fleeing persecution, is tightening its generous policies

The Independent UK

Channel rescue: Suella Braverman says government must ‘end these crossings’ after four people die in boat capsize – as it happened

Home secretary says fatalities are ‘sobering reminder’ as major search and rescue operation continues

The Guardian - UK

Sunak asylum plan violates international law, UN says

‘If you enter the UK illegally, you should not be able to remain here,’ prime minister vows

The Independent UK

UK's Sunak vows to clear asylum backlog, return Albanians

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to clear a backlog of asylum-seeker applications

The Independent UK

David Morrissey suggests ‘challenging the narrative’ around refugee crisis

The British actor has worked with the UN Refugee Agency since 2014.

The Independent UK

Why does Biden want to buy Venezuelan oil again?

The fix is in. During the Thanksgiving holiday, the Biden administration announced it was quietly reversing policy and allowing limited petroleum imports from Venezuela. The Treasury Department lifted restrictions permitting a six-month deal to ease sanctions so that Chevron petroleum may buy and then ship Venezuelan crude oil to American…

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Activists appeal for rescue of Rohingya refugees stranded at sea in leaking boat

Vessel thought to have embarked from Bangladesh is reportedly near Malaysia with 160 people onboard who have no food or water

Al Jazeera

Asylum seekers take to the UN to reclaim inalienable human rights

On Human Rights Day, a sit-in at the UN refugee agency in Geneva gives voice to people detained in Libya.

France 24

Hundreds of refugees adrift at sea between Bangladesh and Myanmar

During the week of December 5, Rohingya refugees sent messages of distress from boats adrift at sea. Their families have shared videos of the scenes, while human rights activists have called on neighbouring countries like Thailand to take action.

Al Jazeera

UN urges Southeast Asia governments to rescue stranded Rohingya

About 200 mostly Muslim Rohingya have been drifting for more than a week in the Andaman Sea after their boat broke down.

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Al Jazeera

More than 9,000 flee violence in South Sudan’s Upper Nile: UN

Women and children make up the majority of those displaced as a result of the ‘ruthless conflict’ in the region.

Reuters

Violence in South Sudan's Upper Nile displaces 9,000 -U.N. agencies

Violence in South Sudan's Upper Nile state has killed an unknown number of people and displaced just over 9,000, some of whom are hiding in swamps, United Nations agencies said on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

150 Rohingya stranded on leaking boat off Ranong

At least 150 ethnic Rohingya people are stranded at sea off Thailand after their boat broke down, activists said on Wednesday, adding that several may have died and urging authorities to rescue the survivors.

Reuters

More than 150 Rohingya stranded on leaking boat off Thai coast - activists

At least 150 ethnic Rohingya are stranded at sea off Thailand after their boat broke down, activists said on Wednesday, adding that several may have died and urging authorities to rescue the survivors.

The Independent UK

UN condemns ‘legal errors’ in asylum report backed by Suella Braverman

‘There is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker,’ says UNHRC

The Guardian - UK

UN refugee body criticises ‘errors’ in asylum report backed by Braverman

Organisation questions use of ‘illegal’ to describe asylum seekers in report calling for radical crackdown

Asharq Al-Awsat

UNHCR Chief Calls for Helping Lebanon's Most Vulnerable

The United Nations' refugee agency chief called Saturday for sustained support for Syrian refugees in Lebanon and vulnerable Lebanese citizens, three years after the country's economy began collapsing. "We must stand with Lebanon," UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi said at the end of a three-day visit to Beirut. According to the…

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