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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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Donors began committing funds from around the world Monday for the moribund Palestinian economy amid a renewed international push for a Palestinian state, with the European Union promising $650 million in 2008.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad i..
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CNN
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Afghan and international forces have launched an operation to rescue a group of South Koreans taken hostage by Taliban insurgents south of the capital Kabul, the Afghan Ministry of Defense says. "Afghan forces and international troops have launched a join..
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CNN
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The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for a Sudanese government minister and a janjaweed militia leader suspected of committing war crimes in Darfur, the court said Wednesday.
The court will now wait and see if Sudanese authoritie..
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CNN
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The United States urged North Korea on Sunday to invite international inspectors back and begin shutting down a nuclear reactor, but the top U.S. negotiator repeated that Washington would give Pyongyang a few more days.
Pyongyang apparently missed a de..
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BBC News
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Human rights group Amnesty International has released a highly critical report on Egypt's record on torture and illegal detention.
The issue was recently highlighted by the emergence of mobile phone film of policemen raping a man with a stick.
The r..
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BBC News
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The "whole state apparatus" of Sudan is implicated in crimes against humanity in Darfur, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has said.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo's report into the crisis in western Sudan, due on Thursday, coincides with a visit..
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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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MSNBC
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International face of the regime
Aziz, a member of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic minority, became internationally known as Saddam’s defender and fierce American critic after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent 1991 Gulf War.
He was later p..
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BBC News
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Russia has warned the US that Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia endangers international stability.
Moscow said the comments were made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a telephone conversation with his US counterpart Condo..
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CNN
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The United States could have avoided the post-invasion chaos in Iraq had it listened to, and learned from, the British, Prince Andrew said in comments published in a London newspaper Tuesday. Andrew's interview, published in the International Herald Tribu..
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MSNBC
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Israel resumed fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip’s main power plant Tuesday, offering limited respite from a blockade that plunged much of the Hamas-ruled territory into darkness and touched off international protests.
The shipment included at least th..
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BBC News
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has called for immediate political action to contain the "deep crisis" in the West Bank and Gaza.
The statement was an unusual departure from its normally non-political stance.
The ICRC said the measures..
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BBC News
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Two foreigners and two Afghans working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been kidnapped in central Afghanistan, police say.
They say that the abductions took place in Wardak province.
They were reported to have taken place..
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USA Today
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Burma and Somalia have been ranked as the most corrupt nations in Transparency International's 2007 index, released Wednesday — adding pressure to the Southeast Asian country's military regime as it faces the biggest anti-government protests in nearly t..
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BBC News
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Afghan villagers in the eastern province of Kunar say 35 civilians have been killed in separate air attacks by international forces.
The villagers said neighbours in Watapour were burying 10 people killed in a strike when planes attacked again, killing..
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BBC News
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The Palestinian Hamas movement has criticised the appointment of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as an international Middle East peace envoy.
The Islamist militants, now in control of Gaza, said Mr Blair had not been honest or helpful while prime m..
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FOX News
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A Yemeni guard opened fire Saturday at the employees of an international oil company in Yemen, killing an Indian national and seriously wounding an American, two Britons, a Tunisian and a Yemeni man, security and local officials said.
The incident took..
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CNN
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Chad may allow international peacekeeping troops to deploy along its border with Sudan to create safe passage for humanitarian aid to the war-torn Darfur region, the president of the African country said Tuesday.
President Idriss Deby said Chad was und..
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BBC News
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Syria has condemned a Security Council decision to set up an international tribunal to try suspects in the killing of Rafik Hariri.
The former Lebanese PM was killed in a car bombing in Beirut in 2005.
A UN inquiry has suggested that Syrian and Leba..
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