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Source: Reuters * Kagame says will not be dictated to by critics * Rwandan leader sworn in for second 7-year term * Rights groups said election marred by repression By Kezio-Musoke David KIGALI, Sept 6 ( ...

Source: Reuters * 2010 likely to become deadliest year of war * Civilian casualties also at record levels * More tough fighting ahead, U.S. commanders warn * NATO acknowledges civilian deaths in Helmand ...

Source: IRIN Hundreds of people have been displaced by floods in parts of the north Rift Valley region of Kenya even as the meteorological department forecasts drier conditions in the coming months.

Source: Reuters BEIRUT, Sept 6 (Reuters) - A Lebanese prosecutor charged 84 people on Monday over involvement in a Sunni-Shi'ite clash which killed three people in Beirut last month. If convicted, they could face ...

Source: Reuters * Two children among dead * Bomber drove explosive-laden car into police station * Military stretched (Adds drone strike and UN appeal for money) By Mustansar Baluch LAKKI MARWAT, Pakistan, ...

DanChurchAid - Denmark From back breaking work in road-construction far from home to owner of six goats. In Orissa, India the dalit single mother, Bilaso Naik, has gotten help to claim her right to basic services from the government

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) KABUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Several hundred Afghans chanting "Death to America" rallied outside a mosque in the Afghan capital on Monday to ...

Source: Reuters * OSCE mediators say to step up activities * Four soldiers confirmed killed over past week * Nagorno-Karabakh a threat to energy transit region By Matt Robinson TBILISI, Sept 6 (Reuters) - ...

Source: Reuters Sept 6 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1100 GMT on Monday. * Denotes new or updated item. * SAMARRA - Gunmen raided a house inhabited by Iraqi construction workers ...

Merlin - UK Merlin is responding rapidly and effectively to ongoing outbreaks of waterborne disease in the severely flood-affected regions of Pakistan. Today Merlin expanded its operations into Punjab province and opened a sixth diarrhoea treatment unit in Muzaffar...

Source: Reuters By Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG, Sept 6 (Reuters) - A strike by 1.3 million workers in South Africa's public sector now in its 16th day is testing President Jacob Zuma and the ruling African ...

Source: IRIN Like many farmers in Bangladesh, Abdul Aziz from Naogaon District in northwestern Bangladesh has had to adapt his plantings to increasingly erratic weather: "Twenty years ago we had a rainy season at this time. Now we don't even know when the seasons come."

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Internal displacement in Pakistan’s north-western Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa (KP) has continued for at least six years, but reached a massive scale from 2008 to 2009.

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) KABUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Afghan first Vice-President Mohammad Qasim Fahim was recovering following medical treatment in Germany, his secretary said on ...

Source: Reuters * Government will continue to pursue ETA members * Minister sees truce offer as attempt to hide ETA weakness (Adds details) MADRID, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Spain cannot trust Sunday's truce ...

Source: Reuters * Soaring bread, wheat prices trigger unrest * Investor sentiment seen unfazed MAPUTO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Almost 150 people have been arrested in Mozambique in the wake of riots last week over ...

Source: Reuters TOKYO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Two Greenpeace activists were given suspended jail sentences in Japan on Monday for stealing whale meat they said was going to be consumed illegally. Japan, one of only ...

Source: IRIN The UK's Disaster Emergencies Committee (DEC) [ http://www.dec.org.uk ] , founded more than 45 years ago to persuade aid agencies to collaborate rather than compete in their fund-raising for emergencies, has so far raised more than US$60 million for the Pakistan flood appeal (unrelated to official UK aid).

Source: Reuters * Aftershocks rattle city, central Christchurch closed * State of emergency extended until Wednesday * Market reaction limited, kiwi dlr steady, bonds fall * Standard & Poor's say quake no ...

Source: Reuters KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 (Reuters) - A Malaysian was jailed for six months and fined 190,000 ringgit ($61,000) for trying to smuggle 95 snakes out of the country, a sentence that campaigners said was too ...