US's Mullen in Pakistan to calm tensions with India
03 Dec 2008 08:41:43 GMT
Source: Reuters
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday as part of U.S. diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions between Pakistan and India after ...
China braces for snow and sandstorms
03 Dec 2008 08:38:14 GMT
Source: Reuters
BEIJING, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Temperatures are expected to drop by up to 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit) across most of China in coming days, bringing snow in the northeast and sandstorms in ...
Rice arrives in India to ease tension with Pakistan
03 Dec 2008 08:32:08 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Rice flies to India for talks on Mumbai
* Zardari says he doubts surviving gunman is Pakistani
* India demands most-wanted fugitives from Pakistan
By Sue Pleming
NEW DELHI, Dec 3 (Reuters ...
Powers to press North Korea at swan-song talks
03 Dec 2008 08:24:11 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds details of U.S.-North Korea meeting)
By Jon Herskovitz
SEOUL, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Regional powers said on Wednesday they will use a meeting next week, likely to be the Bush administration's ...
INTERVIEW-Japan set to announce emissions credit deals
03 Dec 2008 08:16:07 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Risa Maeda and Takeshi Yoshiike
TOKYO, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Japan, the world's fifth-biggest polluter, will announce within weeks its first set of deals to buy greenhouse gas emission rights from ...
Zimbabwe riot police charge protestors
03 Dec 2008 08:14:47 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds background, details)
By Nelson Banya
HARARE, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe riot police wielding batons charged protesting union members, doctors and nurses to disperse demonstrations on ...
US forces in Iraq detain,kill Iran-backed suspects
03 Dec 2008 08:14:28 GMT
Source: Reuters
BAGHDAD, Dec 3 (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Iraq captured two suspected members of an Iranian-backed network and killed a third on Wednesday, part of U.S. efforts to target a group it says has attacked ...
Zimbabwe riot police break up Harare protests
03 Dec 2008 07:53:29 GMT
Source: Reuters
HARARE, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe riot police charged protesting union members, doctors and nurses with batons to disperse fresh demonstrations on Wednesday as the country sank further into crisis, a ...
Maoist rebels kill 5 troops in southern Philippines
03 Dec 2008 07:50:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
MANILA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Five soldiers were killed and two were wounded when Maoist-led guerrillas detonated a crude landmine in a remote town in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman said on ...
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ACT Alert: Cyclone Nisha - floods in Tamil Nadu, India
03 Dec 2008 09:01:00 GMT
Source: Action by Churches Together (ACT) - Switzerland
Alert
47/2008 - India
Cyclone Nisha- floods in Tamil Nadu
Geneva, 01 December 2008
Since 26 November, while the world's attention has been fixed on the bombings in Mumbai, Tamil Nadu ...
ACT Alert: Costa Rica Caribbean coas in state of emergency
03 Dec 2008 08:57:00 GMT
Source: Action by Churches Together (ACT) - Switzerland
Alert
Costa Rica - No. 46/2008
Geneva, 28 November 2008
Costa Rica Caribbean coast in state of emergency
The Cost Rica National Commission of Risk Prevention and Emergency Response ( ...
Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
02 Dec 2008 16:49:36 GMT
Source: Merlin - UK
Members of
Merlin’s Emergency Response Team are deployed in Zimbabwe where the UN reports 484 cholera deaths and nearly 11,700 more suspected cases. Zimbabwe’s Minister of
Health says cholera now affects nine out of 10 provinces in the country.
Merlin is...
Living positive, celebrating leadership
02 Dec 2008 14:36:00 GMT
Source: ActionAid International- India
Celebrating a journey of change, over hundred HIV positive women in Delhi underscored the need for women's leadership to combat the Virus at the national convention on the World AIDS Day.
A ...
A humanitarian victory
02 Dec 2008 14:27:39 GMT
Source: DanChurchAid - Denmark
On Wednesday the 3rd of December,2008 in Oslo, about half of the world's countries, including Denmark, will sign the international Convention on Cluster Munitions.
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