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Source: IRIN Fifteen months after the end of fighting between Sri Lankan government forces and the Tamil Tigers, women in the north are taking up a new and challenging role as breadwinners - with more and more becoming day labourers to support their families.

Source: Reuters * Ex-leader makes radio appeal to al Qaeda fighters * Appeal part of government strategy to end insurgency * Algeria seeking end to two decades of conflict By Lamine Chikhi ...

Source: Reuters (Updates death toll in Quetta blast and adds details) PARACHINAR, Pakistan, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed 10 people and wounded four in a Pakistani tribal region on the Afghan border on ...

Source: Reuters KHARTOUM, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A senior Sudanese official on Thursday hit back at comments by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Sudan was facing a "ticking time-bomb" in the ...

Source: Reuters MOGADISHU, Sept 9 (Reuters) - At least eight people have been killed, including African Union (AU) peacekeeping troops, after bomb blasts at Mogadishu's airport in the Somali capital, local residents ...

Source: Reuters Sept 9 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1130 GMT on Thursday. MOSUL - Gunmen hurled a hand grenade at a police patrol in a busy market, wounding five civilians, in central ...

Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that a Florida pastor's plan to burn copies of the Koran is being used as an al Qaeda recruitment tool and he urged the ...

Source: Reuters MOGADISHU, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A second explosion hit Mogadishu's airport in Somalia's capital, this time inside the airport compound, shortly after a suicde bomb blast at the perimeter gate, local ...

Source: Reuters * Russian, Kazakh leaders say to fight forest fires together * Russian region imposes state of emergency as fire advances (Adds presidential talks, state of emergency in Altai) ALMATY, Sept 9 ...

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Afghanistan will limit foreign involvement in two major anti-crime units in a move likely to worry its ...

Handicap International - UK London, UK - Handicap International has opened two new bases in Pakistan to deliver emergency aid to the worst-affected populations, following the severe flooding which has devastated the country ...

Source: Reuters MOSCOW, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Regional police said 12 people were killed in a bomb blast on Thursday outside a market in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, the Interfax news agency reported. ( ...

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan click [ID:nAFPAK]) Sept 9 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 0830 GMT on Thursday: KABUL - A service member from the NATO-led International ...

Source: Reuters VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A large blast hit near a market in the city of Vladikavkaz in Russia's restive North Caucasus on Thursday, killing at least four people, Russian news agencies ...

Source: Reuters * Greens allay concerns over mine tax * Greens say uranium, banks not included in tax regime * PM Gillard to test numbers in parliament on Sept. 28 By James Grubel CANBERRA, Sept 9 (Reuters ...

Source: Reuters MOSCOW, Sept 9 (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and dozens wounded in a blast in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz on Thursday, the Itar-Tass news agency reported, citing the ...

Source: Reuters * Jamaat Ansarullah says bombed police station on Sept. 3 * Claim on website used by Russian Islamist militants By Roman Kozhevnikov DUSHANBE, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A hitherto unknown Islamist ...

Source: UNEP 9 September 2010 - Factoring in the planet's multi-trillion dollar ecosystem services, the benefits that human populations derive from ecosystems, such as food and water, into policy-making can help ...

Source: IPS Two weeks before the 2010 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) review summit at the United Nations, concerns are being raised that gender equality is still largely divorced from efforts to address climate change, even though women have a critical role to play in solving - and are often most affected by – the problem.

Source: Reuters (Adds details and background) PARACHINAR, Pakistan, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed 10 people and wounded four in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on the Afghan border on Thursday, a ...