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BBC NEWS | Americas | Venezuela recalls envoy in Peru - 0 views

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Venezuela Peru Manuel Rosales

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Venezuela has withdrawn its ambassador to Lima in response to Peru's decision to grant political asylum to an opponent of President Hugo Chavez.
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The Venezuelan foreign ministry said Peru's decision to grant Manuel Rosales asylum constituted a "mockery of international law". Mr Rosales ran against Mr Chavez in Venezuela's 2006 presidential election. He faces corruption charges which he says are baseless and went into hiding when the charges were filed last month.
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Earlier, Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Garcia Belaunde announced that asylum had been granted to Mr Rosales, who arrived in Lima a week ago.
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The Venezuelan foreign ministry, however, called Peru's move a "mockery of international law, a strong blow to the fight against corruption and an offence to the people of Venezuela".
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Last year Mr Rosales was elected mayor of Venezuela's second biggest city, Maracaibo. He is facing multi-million-dollar corruption charges relating to a previous term as governor of Zulia state. Mr Rosales and his supporters say he is the victim of a political witch-hunt Government supporters accuse him of taking part in a short-lived coup against Mr Chavez in April 2002. Mr Rosales has insisted that it was an honest mistake made in the confusion that followed the announcement of the president's resignation.
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BBC News - Husband of Ukraine's Tymoshenko wins Czech asylum - 0 views

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Ukraine Czech Republic

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Last year, the country granted asylum to Bohdan Danylyshyn, a former economy minister in Tymoshenko's cabinet. A row ensued in which Ukraine expelled two Czech diplomats for alleged espionage. Mr Tymoshenko has a stake in the Czech company International Industrial Projects.
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Swedish riots spark surprise and anger | World news | The Observer - 0 views

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Immigration EU Europe Sweden

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"These people, they should integrate in this society and just try a little bit more to be like Swedish citizens."Scratch beneath the surface and this is a sentiment shared by many in a country that arguably has the world's most generous asylum policies. Sweden has taken in more than 11,000 refugees from Syria since 2012, more per head than any other European country, and it has absorbed more than 100,000 Iraqis and 40,000 Somalis over the past two decades. About 1.8 million of its 9.5 million people are first- or second-generation immigrants.
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So it has come as a shock for many Swedes to discover the scale of resentment. It's not hard to find it. Aleks, whose parents came from Kosovo, says: "I hate the police. I hate the cops. I think setting fire to cars in the neighbourhood should stop, but I don't think throwing rocks at the cops should stop."
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The trigger for the riots – police shooting dead a 69-year-old Portuguese man called Lenine Relvas-Martins
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Martins had been brandishing a knife on his balcony, angry after a confrontation with local youths. Police then broke into his house and shot him in front of his Finnish wife. They say she was at risk. She denies it.The police then inflamed the situation last Sunday, reportedly calling young people causing a disturbance "monkeys" and "negroes".
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there's no doubt Husby has better facilities than deprived areas in Britain. But it is also more segregated. About 85% of people here have their origins outside Sweden.
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"The politicians are thinking the wrong way. They want to help people, but you never help people when you put 30,000 to 50,000 in one place," complains the man painting at the library.
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"For a lot of people who live in segregated areas, the only Swedes they meet are social workers or police officers. It's amazing how many have never had a Swedish friend."
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A third of the 2,500 white, ethnic Swedes who lived in Husby 10 years ago have left.
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Inequality has also grown faster in Sweden over the past decade than in any other developed country, according to thinktank the OECD, which puts the blame partly on tax cuts paid for by reductions in welfare spending.
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According to official statistics, more than 10% of those aged 25 to 55 in Husby are unemployed, compared with 3.5% in Stockholm as a whole. Those that do have jobs earn 40% less than the city average.
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Esmail Jamshidi, a 23-year-old medical student born and educated in Husby, says young people don't lack opportunities."It's a very recent development, this ghetto mentality," he says. "Immigrants come here, and most leave after a decade or two. A very small percentage of them don't, and this last group are left
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The older generation of immigrants seems as puzzled by the anger as Swedes. Ali, the owner of Café Unic, a Persian cafe in Husby's main square, says he tried living in America but came back. "I love this country. I mean it," he says. "I'm telling my kids every day to remember that you are born here, in Sweden. I love this country because of the way they built it: because of my taxes, and other people's taxes, everyone has a nice place to live. It's a very, very nice and good idea."
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