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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's government has banned at least one international aid group from operating in the country for allegedly campaigning for the opposition.
All operations of Care International are now suspended, pending an inquiry into the claims.
Care denies t..
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MSNBC
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The junta has accepted relief flights into Yangon from many countries, including the United States, its fiercest critic, but has largely kept Western disaster experts out of the delta.
However, it has allowed a senior U.S. aid official on a 3-day gover..
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BBC News
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The World Food Programme has halted aid shipments to Burma after the contents of its first delivery were impounded on arrival in the military-ruled country.
The UN body says the Burmese government seized aid material flown in to help victims of the cyc..
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CNN
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South Korean negotiators in Afghanistan have reached a deal with Taliban militants holding 19 South Korean Christian aid workers for over a month, a presidential spokesman in Seoul said Tuesday. Seoul welcomes the deal, but the spokesman cautioned that ma..
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BBC News
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Nearly a third of the population of Iraq is in need of immediate emergency aid, according to a new report from Oxfam and a coalition of Iraqi NGOs.
The report said the government was failing to provide basics such as food and shelter for eight million..
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USA Today
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The Bush administration said Monday it would end a year-long embargo on direct aid to the Palestinian government, which no longer includes members of the militant Hamas movement that seized control of Gaza last week.
The announcement was part of a broa..
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BBC News
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Two transport planes said to be carrying American military aid for the Lebanese army are reported to have arrived at Beirut airport.
The move follows an appeal for such aid by the Lebanese government.
Its forces are battling Islamist militants who h..
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Al Jazeera
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The French government has confirmed the video shows two French aid workers who have gone missing in Afghanistan.
'No prisoner swaps'
James Bays, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Jalalabad, said: "The Taliban demands are that they want more prisoners..
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Wilmington Star
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President Bush will ask Congress to give more than $8 billion to Afghanistan to help its security forces and assist in reconstructing the war-ravaged nation, the White House said Thursday...
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BBC News
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for $50bn (�25bn) in aid to help rebuild his country, at a foreign donors conference in Paris.
The US has committed $10bn, but pledges are expected to fall well short of Mr Karzai's target.
Critics say Afgh..
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BBC News
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A senior UN official says there are fragile signs that Burma's co-operation with the international aid effort for victims of Cyclone Nargis is improving.
Kathleen Cravero of the UN Development Programme told the BBC that visas had become more easily av..
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BBC News
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Burma's top leader has agreed to let all foreign aid workers into the country for relief work in cyclone-hit areas, UN head Ban Ki-moon has said.
After talks in Burma's remote capital, Naypyidaw, with Gen Than Shwe, Mr Ban said the decision was a break..
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BBC News
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Officials from more than 60 countries are in Paris pledging a multi-billion dollar aid package for Palestinians, in the biggest such meeting for a decade.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wants $5.6bn (�2.8bn) by 2010 to help set up a viable Pales..
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BBC News
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Rescue and relief teams have reached most of the remote areas of Bangladesh affected by one of the worst cyclones in recent years, officials say.
But the situation on the ground remains grim, with untold numbers of desperate survivors still short of th..
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CNN
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Sudan has expelled the top official in Sudan of the U.S.-based aid group CARE.
Country director Paul Barker told Reuters the Sudanese government's Humanitarian Aid Commission had given him 72 hours to leave the country yet had given no reason for the d..
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BBC News
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Private TV stations in Afghanistan have broadcast a video appearing to show a female German aid worker who was kidnapped in Kabul on Saturday.
The woman, who looked pale and whose head was covered with a white scarf, identified herself as Christina Mei..
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BBC News
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At least three people have died after Somali security forces opened fire at a crowd demanding food aid in the capital, Mogadishu, witnesses say.
Hundreds of people tried to storm a police station where food was being handed out, they say.
"Police op..
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BBC News
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The UN has appealed to Kenya to allow food aid for more than 100,000 people through its border to war-torn Somalia.
The 140 trucks have been stranded on the border for nearly a month, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) says.
Kenya closed its border..
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Washington Post
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The United States yesterday lifted its embargo on direct aid to the Palestinian government, joining the European Union and other countries in a swift demonstration of support for embattled President Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle against the anti-Israeli m..
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USA Today
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The emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas installed after Islamic militants seized control of Gaza reaped its first windfall on Monday, with the European Union promising to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial aid...
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