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PAKISTAN: Two million hit by floods in Sindh Province
Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh is facing disaster once more with heavy rains over the past five days, according to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA). “Two million people in 15 [out of 23] districts have been affected,” PDMA Director of Operations Sajjad Haider told IRIN. He also said crops had been devastated.
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The Holy See Responds to the Cloyne Report
Msgr. Ettore Balestrero, under secretary for Relations with States met this morning with Helena Keleher, charge d'affaires a.i. of the Embassy of Ireland to the Holy See, and consigned to her the "Holy See's Response to the Irish Government concerning the Cloyne Report".
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UN and diplomatic partners urge Security Council to unfreeze Libyan assets
The United Nations and its diplomatic partners seeking a resolution to the Libyan crisis today urged the Security Council to release assets frozen under United Nations sanctions to the country’s transitional authorities to help them set up a government in the North African nation.
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Gallup Poll: Many Americans Still Cool To A Mormon As President
As former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman declares his candidacy for president, Gallup is out with a new poll that suggests a significant percentage of Americans aren't ready for a Mormon president.
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We Are Now the Only Hope for Humanity as a Whole
As many of you suspect or know, we are now faced with the greatest crisis in the history of modern man. There's nothing comparable to it, to what we face now. There are solutions, but the question is, will the solutions be tolerated, or accepted?
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Darfur: UN-backed ceasefire commission holds inaugural meeting
Delegates at the All Darfur Stakeholders Conference in Doha, Qatar, on 31 May 2011
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Libya: UN chief urges smooth and peaceful transition of power
Muammar al-Gadhafi addresses the general debate of the sixty-fourth session of the UN General Assembly (September 2009)
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Gadhafi Loyalists Resist Rebels In Tripoli
Libya's opposition leadership declared Monday that the decades-old regime of Moammar Gadhafi is finished, but intense fighting raged in parts of Tripoli as loyalists refused to cede control of the capital.
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Libya Rebels In Tripoli, Gadhafi Defenses Collapse
Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli in a lighting advance Sunday that met little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi's defenders melted away and his 40-year rule appeared to rapidly crumble. The euphoric fighters celebrated with residents of the capital in the city's main square, the symbolic heart of the regime.
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