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ZIMBABWE: More food production, but not enough

Zimbabwe's production of maize, its staple food, has improved "significantly", but the country is still food insecure and about 1.68 million people will require assistance in the first quarter of 2011, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...

North Koreans lose homes to widespread floods

North Korean television has confirmed another disaster has occurred in the Communist country.

Floods affect countries in central Europe

There has been a rise in the death toll from massive flooding in central Europe overnight.

PAKISTAN: Floods show no sign of let up

For the past 10 days, torrential monsoon rainfall has killed more than 1,600 people inflicted widesperad damage across the country, with the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) suffering the greatest losses, federal authorities and aid...