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GLOBAL: Insights into the ever more complex aid system
As the humanitarian “system” becomes more complex, with new actors and overlapping mandates, different definitions of humanitarian aid, and ever-more ambitious goals, humanitarian aid watchdog Development Initiatives outlines some of the needs, responses and funding trends over the past decade in its 2010 Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) report.
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Greenpeace shuts down 50 BP petrol stations
Greenpeace activists protesting British Petroleum's (BP) 'reckless' oil pursuit, shut down 50 petrol filling stations in central London Tuesday morning.
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AFGHANISTAN: Mass grave cover-ups undermine justice
Three years after President Hamid Karzai appointed a commission to investigate a mass grave site in the Chimtala plains, north of Kabul city, the site, the commission and the truth are missing.
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North Korea threatens response to naval exercise
The spokesman of the North Korean delegation at an Asian security forum said Friday that Pyongyang would physically respond to planned US-South Korean naval exercises.
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Serbia unhappy with Kosovo ruling
UN judges have ruled that Kosovo's secession in 2008 had not broken international law.
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AFRICA: Bullish about the agricultural future
Suddenly, after 20 years of relative neglect, African agriculture is a hot topic, with a substantial growth in production and a new interest among major donors in funding the sector. That is the message emerging from a series of seminars now taking place in London looking at the constraints and opportunities facing Africa’s farmers.
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Kosovo’s declaration of independence did not violate international law – UN court
Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in February 2008 did not violate international law, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said today as the United Nations court released its advisory opinion on the issue.
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N. Korea Warns U.S. To Call Off Military Exercises
North Korea warned the United States and South Korea on Thursday to call off military exercises scheduled for this weekend and to back off any new sanctions against the communist country or risk placing the entire region in danger.
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U.K. Questions Release Of Lockerbie Bomber
British Prime Minister David Cameron resisted pressure in Washington this week to investigate possible links between energy giant BP and last year's release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. But in the U.K., the U.S. questioning of Cameron has reopened discussion about why and how the Libyan was freed.
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Haiti debt will be wiped out by IMF
The International Monetary Fund has agreed to cancel Haiti's $268 million debt.
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