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Brad Feld: Broken Immigration Shutters Innovation

Mashable is proud to join technology's brightest entrepreneurs in the March For Innovation, a virtual march on Washington that calls for smart, comprehensive immigration reform to attract and keep the best and brightest to fuel innovation and American ... [Published Mashable - 16 mins ago]

Entities: Immigration, Brad Feld, Invention

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 17 mins ago - 10 reports

Republican Party (US)

Advocates outraged at lack of LGBT protection in immigration bill

Gay rights advocates are reacting angrily to a decision by Senate Democrats on Tuesday to drop protections for same-sex couples from a landmark immigration reform bill in order to preserve Republican support for the legislation. Today it became clear ... [Published Washington Post - 17 mins ago]

Entities: Immigration, LGBT, Republican Party (US), Gay Rights

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 17 mins ago - 82 reports

Senate panel reaches compromise on foreign workers

The Senate Judiciary Committee reached a compromise which would make it much easier for American tech companies to hire foreign workers. Most U.S. high-tech companies would not be required to offer tech jobs to Americans before they are able to hire foreign ... [Published Homeland Security News Wire - 17 mins ago]

Entities: Orrin Hatch, Workers, Richard Durbin, Immigration

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 44 mins ago - 10 reports

Syrian refugees selling daughters as brides

DAVID MARK: Reports are emerging in Jordan that some of the Syrian women and girls in refugee camps there are being sold as brides. In some cases it seems, it's their families who are selling girls aged 16 and younger for just a few thousand dollars to ... [Published ABC Online - 44 mins ago]

Entities: Andrew Harper, David Mark, Refugees, Jordan

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 44 mins ago - 8 reports

Arias: Death penalty would be ‘revenge, not justice’

As an Arizona jury resumes deliberating on Wednesday about whether she deserves the death penalty for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, Jodi Arias is now begging for her life after initially saying she preferred to die.“What I receive will be what I deserve, ... [Published NBCNews.com - 48 mins ago]

Entities: Capital Punishment, Travis Alexander, Suicide, Memory, Jodi Arias

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 13 reports

Barack Obama

COLUMN: We need immigration reform, but we need to reform correctly

Immigration has been a hot topic as of late. President Barack Obama focused solely on health care in his first term and neglected things like immigration reform. Now he is being quite persistent in his pursuit of immigration reform in the start of his ... [Published Gaston Gazette - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Illegal Immigrants, Barack Obama, Immigration

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 6 reports

Greens want ASIO to review refugee status

The call comes after a refugee mother and child got a new non-prejudicial security assessment, replacing a previous adverse assessment that meant they had to stay in detention.The immigration department confirmed ASIO issued the new assessment on May ... [Published The Sydney News - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Refugees, Sarah Hanson-Young, Immigration, Custody

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 20 reports

Senate panel OKs immigration overhaul

After three long weeks of hearings and debates, spectators burst out into screams and applause Tuesday night after the Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration bill that would be the biggest overhaul to the nation's immigration laws in a ge ... [Published Greenville News - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Immigration

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 1 hour ago - 12 reports

17% of Egypt's population suffered food insecurity

The World Food Programme (WFP) in Egypt released a report on Tuesday showing that 17 percent of Egypt's population, an estimated 13.7 million people, suffered from food insecurity in 2011, compared to 14 percent in 2009.According to the joint report by ... [Published Albawaba - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Egypt, UN World Food Programme, Malnutrition

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 2 hours ago - 6 reports

Cholera epidemic in Niger

UN agency steps up efforts to help Niger contain cholera outbreak - UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday said it was working to help contain a cholera epidemic in Niger that had already claimed seven lives, including those of two Malian ... [Published Afrique En Ligne - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Niger, Epidemic, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (..., Cholera

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 3 hours ago - 34 reports

'Dark future' for women's rights in Afghanistan

There has been an appalling rise in the number of Afghan women imprisoned for 'moral crimes' – just as the international community's focus turns to leaving the country – warns Human Rights WatchIn January 2012, my investigations determined that some 400 ... [Published Public Service Europe - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Afghanistan, Crime, Human Rights Watch

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 14 reports

Kangaroo Court? Ex-Guatemalan dictator’s 80 year sentence overturned

Eighty years in prison, was the sentence handed down last week to Guatemala’s ex-military dictator, Rios Montt, for ordering the deaths of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one Ixil Mayas between 1982 to 1983. But Guatemala’s constitutional court ... [Published Channel 5 Belize - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Dictator, Guatemala, Francisco García

Quotes

...express their views and (hold) demonstrations," said Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary-general of the Council of Europe, of which Russia is a signatory. "This is a fundamental principle in the European Convention on Human Rights" he said. An aggressive crowd shouted insults and threw smoke bombs over police barriers to break up a gay rally last week in St...

Council of Europe head says Russia must protect LGBT rights [Published Sharenet - 14 mins ago]

"Relying on the state will see many people retiring below the poverty line this year, which shows the importance of building up a personal pension."

1 in 5 Retiring This Year Will Live in Poverty [Published Watch My Wallet - 16 mins ago]

"The UAE Ministry of Labour has recognised Arabtec's continuing commitment to the rights and well-being of its employees" said the statement

Mostly Asian expat workers end UAE strike: Arabtec [Published Economic Times - 17 mins ago]

...did I , but in the end, we all owe it to the American people to get the best possible result over the finish line," Obama said in a statement. "I encourage the full Senate to bring this bipartisan bill to the floor at the earliest possible opportunity and remain hopeful that the amendment process will lead to further improvements."

Immigration Bill to Hit Senate Floor in June [Published US News & World Report - 20 mins ago]

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Steve Case: Don't Let Top Talent Leave the U.S. [Published Mashable - 16 mins ago]
Inmates being released because jail too full [Published Q13 Fox - 16 mins ago]
1 in 5 Retiring This Year Will Live in Poverty [Published Watch My Wallet - 16 mins ago]
Senate panel reaches compromise on foreign workers [Published Homeland Security News Wire - 17 mins ago]
Mostly Asian expat workers end UAE strike: Arabtec [Published Economic Times - 17 mins ago]
Advocates outraged at lack of LGBT protection i... [Published Washington Post - 17 mins ago]
Why Democrats abandoned LGBT immigrants [Published Salon - 19 mins ago]
Immigration Bill to Hit Senate Floor in June [Published US News & World Report - 20 mins ago]
Having to pay higher wages, businesses trim wor... [Published Bao Moi.com - 20 mins ago]
Venture Capitalist: America Is Not a 'Fixed Pie' [Published Mashable - 22 mins ago]
Poor Immigration Policy Threatens Bright Students [Published Mashable - 22 mins ago]
No Reform, No Visas, No Business [Published Mashable - 22 mins ago]
House immigration talks hang on healthcare [Published Health Leaders - 22 mins ago]
Southern Azerbaijan: Repression Intensifies As ... [Published United Nations and Peoples Organisation - 22 mins ago]
BBB offers tips to make disaster relief donatio... [Published Tyler Morning Telegraph - 23 mins ago]
Poverty hits home at role-playing event [Published Individual.com - 24 mins ago]
Breaking the sheep's back with political correc... [Published WA Today - 25 mins ago]
Demonstration to be held against the developmen... [Published InterpressNews - 27 mins ago]
Syrian opposition urges rebels to join key battle [Published Sify - 28 mins ago]
Russia tightens control over immigrants [Published Zecco - 28 mins ago]
House immigration snag: Health care [Published Politico - 28 mins ago]
Immigration Overhaul Wins Panel's Backing in th... [Published Newsvine - 29 mins ago]
Syria strife sends Somali refugees on the run [Published Al Jazeera - 29 mins ago]
South Africa’s secrecy bill signals growing pol... [Published Index on Censorship - 30 mins ago]

Blogs

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Poor Immigration Policy Threatens Bright Students [Published Mashable! - 32 mins ago] Mashable is proud to join technology's brightest entrepreneurs in the March For Innovation, a virtual march on Washington that calls for smart, comprehensive immigration reform to attract and keep the best and brightest to fuel innovation and ...
Time To Retire The Senior Citizen Discount? [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - 39 mins ago] Alex Mayyasi thinks millennials are more deserving of a discount: The United States only began measuring poverty in the 1960s, so we lack standard figures dating farther back than that. But it’s recognized that the trend of decreasing poverty among ...
How Immigration Hurdles Derail Startup Success [Published Mashable! - 39 mins ago] Mashable is proud to join technology's brightest entrepreneurs in the March For Innovation, a virtual march on Washington that calls for smart, comprehensive immigration reform to attract and keep the best and brightest to fuel innovation and ...
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how’d you like t... [Published AMERICAblog News\| A great nation deserves the t ... - 1 hour ago] Democrats bail on gay couples, leave them out of immigration bill (again), under pressure from Republicans.. ...
Exiled Cambodian leader prays for democracy [Published Khmerization - 1 hour ago] 22 May 2013,Source: Shalailah Medhora, SBS TVAn exiled Cambodian opposition leader says it'stime for Australia to step up and play a bigger role in securingdemocracy in the country.RELATEDExiled Cambodian leader prays for democracyCambodia mourns death ...

Audio/Video

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Sessions: Tech Carve-Outs In Immigration Bill U... [Published Senator Jeff Sessions - YouTube Channel - 12 hours ago]
Former dictator returns to trial [Published CNN.com - Video - 15 hours ago]
Immigration Debate: Models and Computer Scienti... [Published Bloomberg - YouTube - May 20 2013]
Immigration Debate: Models and Computer Scienti... [Published Bloomberg - YouTube - May 20 2013]
Why immigrants are making pizza in Italy [Published CNN.com - Video - May 20 2013]

Press Releases

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