" MANILA - Heavy rains have triggered a landslide that killed a 4-year-old girl and her grandmother, a disaster-response official said. Disaster-response administrator Joey Marco says two hours of rain loosened the...
Robert Templer, Asia program director of the International Crisis Group called government of Sri Lanka to alter course, provide a clear timetable to resettle the IDPs, and release the doctors. An estimated...
From 750 Tea Parties in April 2009, to 1505 on July 4, 2009, the Tea Party Movement appears to be picking up momentum. Even with faced with contrived attempts by Government officials to prevent the gatherings, the...
A Canadian is kept in the camps for the former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadres. These camps are different than the detention camps that the Sri Lankan government calls as welfare villages. The Sri Lankan...
"How it makes of your face a stonethat aches to weep, of your heart a fist,clenched or thumping, sweating blood, of your tonguean iron latch with no door. How it makes of your right handa gauntlet, a glove-puppet of the left, of your laugha dry leaf blowing in the wind, of...
Iran has accused the US of an involvement in a recent mosque bombing that killed many in the south-eastern volatile region of the Islamic Republic of Iran. " An Iranian official accused the United States on Friday...
I personally think it is ridiculous to prosecute someone for making nasty remarks about anyone's religion or insulting anyone or anybody for any reason as long as it doesn't contain any threatening rants. This is the beginning of the end for freedom of speech in Europe. The...
Bolivia is in the midst of a health emergency after three people died from dengue hemorrhagic fever. More than 1,000 Bolivians are thought to have contracted the mosquito-borne disease since November. Dengue has...
There is report coming about the kidnapping of UN official working in the restive southwest Pakistan. Initial reports says that gunmen have kidnapped the regional chief for the UN refugee agency in quetta town of southwest Pakistan after killing his driver. ...
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GAZA - A United Nations official, on Saturday, has again pleaded with the international community to investigate the outcomes on the ongoing Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip. There were 50 airstrikes...
"GENEVA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A senior U.N. aid official appealed on Tuesday for the international community to provide protection for civilians in Gaza, calling it a "test of our humanity". John Ging, director...
War crimes warning for Israel The Killing of 30 people in Gaza when army shelled house full of evacuees 'has all hallmarks of war crime', says UN high commissioner for human rights. Unicef said at least 100...
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French envoy Joyandet The french envoy Mr. Joyandet it is not realistic to ask for elections in 6 months, voter's lists not ready. France will continue with financial aid to prepare elections 2009. People...
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Thai tourism officials said yesterday they expected the number of Vietnamese visitors to remain high, despite the recent temporary closure of the country's airport." Speaking at a press briefing in HCM City, Pichai Raktasinha, director of HCM City's Tourism Authority of...
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