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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.