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Refugees From Conflict Find Common Bond In Own World Cup

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off this week, but for 80 players from various conflict-affected regions in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, their battle for soccer supremacy was waged on a more intimate scale, on a sun-baked artificial pitch in one of Oakland's poorest neighborhoods. You won't see...

Echoes of Iraq as UN Slashes Staff in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON (Nov. 5) -- The United Nations portrayed its decision to cut its international staff in Kabul by more than half in the wake of a deadly Taliban attack as a temporary effort to regroup. But could the move in Afghanistan usher in a bigger change, as a far more devastating assault in Iraq did in 2003? "This is...

Background on International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a leading nonsectarian, nongovernmental international relief and development organization based in the United States, with operations in over 40 countries.

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