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UN warns on waterborne disease risk among flood-affected Pakistanis

Waterborne diseases continue to pose great risk to millions of people affected by the devastating floods in Pakistan, the United Nations warned today, a day after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on a visit to the country, described the “heart-wrenching...

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Obama mosque opinion turns lite

US President Barack Obama has once again weighed into the mosque for Ground Zero argument, saying Muslims have the right to build their house of worship near the site of the 9/11 terrorist event.

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Israel and US want harmony with Turks

US President Barack Obama has told Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erodgan that the US will not sell weapons to his country if he does not change his attitude toward Israel.

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MOZAMBIQUE: Algae survival soup

Pointing to his tiny plot along the Zambezi River in central Mozambique, Tome Lande explains how the maize plants at the top of the sloping riverbank withered away during the drought, and those at the bottom washed away during the floods. His entire...

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