camp

Deadly clashes as Morocco storms Western Sahara camp (Reuters)

November 8th, 2010

Reuters - Clashes between security forces and protesters in Western Sahara killed several people on Monday after Moroccan authorities stormed the site of the disputed territory’s biggest anti-government protest in…

25 militants killed in attack on Afghan-NATO camp (AP)

September 22nd, 2010

British soldiers walk towards a military helicopter during a patrol of Afghanistan's Helmand province in March 2010. British forces transferred control of security for Sangin district in southern Afghanistan to US troops, the defence ministry said on Monday.(AFP/Pool/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - Insurgents attacked a NATO and Afghan army outpost in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border and at least 25 of the militants were killed in the resulting skirmish,…

In Gulf work camp, jobless begin glum journey home (AP)

September 8th, 2010

A laborer packs his bag as the others check their travel documents in the Al Sajaa camp in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. The hidden face of the Emirates' economic crunch is in places such as Industrial Zone 18 and the ramshackle compound for about 700 migrant workers within. For more than six months, they have lived on charity, fought off rats and slept amid piles of trash after a construction company abruptly closed and left them jobless.(AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)AP - The hidden face of the Emirates’ economic crunch is in places such as Industrial Zone 18 and the ramshackle compound for about 700 migrant workers within. For more…

Documents suggest Demjanjuk link to 2nd Nazi camp (AP)

August 11th, 2010

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2009 file picture defendant John Demjanjuk lies on a stretcher, prior to the second day of his trial in the country court in Munich, southern Germany. A German judge ordered John Demjanjuk to appear in court on Monday Aug. 9, 2010  for his trial over allegations that he was a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, despite the 90-year-old's complaints about health problems.  The former Ohio auto worker was informed Monday morning that he was being ordered to attend the trial, presiding judge Ralph Alt said.   Demjanjuk is  on trial on charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp.  (AP Photo/Christof Stache,File)AP - A German historian on Wednesday presented evidence at the trial of John Demjanjuk that suggested he worked as a guard at the Nazis’ Flossenbuerg concentration camp.


Tags: link, Documents,…

UN summer camp in Gaza vandalized (AP)

June 28th, 2010

AP - Two dozen masked men vandalized a U.N. summer camp for children in Gaza early Monday, burning and slashing tents, toys and a plastic swimming pool. It was the…

Police nab 30 in pre-dawn raid on Haiti quake camp (AP)

June 18th, 2010

AP - U.N. and Haitian police raided a crowded earthquake survivor camp on Friday to capture 30 criminal suspects in the biggest law-enforcement operation since the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Tags: predawn,…

Bangkok in flames after army storms protest camp (AP)

May 19th, 2010

Thai soldiers storm into anti-government protesters' encampment while a protester lies dead on Wednesday May 19, 2010, in Bangkok, Thailand. Downtown Bangkok became a raging battleground Wednesday as the army stormed a barricaded protest camp and the Red Shirt leadership surrendered, enraging demonstrators who fired grenades and set fires that cloaked the skyline in a black haze. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E )AP - Buildings blazed across central Bangkok early Thursday, torched by rioters after army troops routed anti-government protesters to end a two-month siege — Thailand’s deadliest political violence in nearly…

Suicide bombers kill 41 at Pakistani refugee camp (AP)

April 17th, 2010

Pakistani police officers and rescue workers gather at the site of suicide bombing in Kacha Pukka area near Kohat, Pakistan on Saturday, April 17, 2010. Two suicide bombers attacked refugees as they lined up for food at a camp for people fleeing military offensives in northwestern Pakistan, killing scores of people and wounding about dozens, police said. (AP Photo/Naveed Sultan)AP - Two suicide bombers dressed in burqas blew themselves up Saturday in a camp for refugees fleeing military offensives in northwestern Pakistan, killing 41 people and wounding 62, officials…

Militants attack Indian camp in Afghanistan (AP)

April 10th, 2010

FILE - This Jan. 31, 2009 file photo provided by the US Air Force shows a CV-22 Osprey aircraft from the 8th Special Operations Squadron over the Emerald Coast outside Hurlburt Field, Fla. A U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft crashed in southeastern Afghanistan Friday, April 9, 2010, killing three service members and one government contractor, NATO said. It was the first crash of the costly, tilt-rotor aircraft in a combat zone. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Julianne Showalter)AP - Militants launched a pre-dawn attack on an Indian road construction camp in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, burning vehicles and equipment and sending the crew fleeing, authorities said.


Tags: Afghanistan,…

Documents of Auschwitz death camp doctors found (AP)

March 22nd, 2010

FILE - In this file photo of Wednesday April 22, 1998, young Israelis walk under the sign at Auschwitz concentration camp reading 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' (Work sets you free) during a tour of the site. A Polish court on Thursday, March 18, 2010 convicted three men of the theft of the notorious 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December. The men, two of whom are brothers, were given prison sentences ranging from 18 months to 2½ years. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File)AP - Food coupons for some of the notorious Nazi doctors at the Auschwitz death camp — including perhaps the sadistic Dr. Joseph Mengele — have been found in the…