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Source: ECHO The European Commission has been supporting victims of the Chechen conflict since its beginning in 1999 with over 237 million euros in humanitarian aid.

Source: ECHO Islamabad 7 September 2010: As the people of Pakistan prepare the mark the end of Ramadan (Eid ul-Fitr) their traditional festivities are overshadowed by the plight of millions displaced by the worst ...

Source: Reuters * Angry customers demand their money * Run on funds ahead of three-day holiday * Central bank orders all but one Kabulbank branch to close (Adds Kabulbank spokesman, paragraphs 9-10) By Tim ...

Source: Reuters * Former top executives at BCC accused of fraud * Accused to testify in November ABIDJAN, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A court in Ivory Coast opened the trial on Wednesday of ...

Source: Reuters KIGALI, Sept 8 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Rwanda on Wednesday not to end its peacekeeping operations in Sudan as he sought to defuse rising tensions over a leaked U.N report ...

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Source: Reuters KADUNA, Nigeria, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Heavily armed gunmen attacked a prison in the central Nigerian city of Bauchi late on Tuesday, freeing as many as 800 inmates including suspected members of a ...

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Plan UK People across Pakistan are forgoing their traditional Eid gifts this year and donating to needy flood victims instead, international children's organisation Plan has learned. Weeks after fleeing ...

Source: Reuters * Several small protected areas often better than big zones * Corals face threats such as climate change By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The world should ...

Source: IRIN People have been turned away from relief camps set up for flood victims in Pakistan mostly due to a lack of space, but in some instances decisions on who gets aid appear to have been affected by religious or ethnic discrimination.

Source: Reuters * Sinopec oil platform tilts 45 degrees * Fire at aromatics unit at PetroChina refinery By Jim Bai and Suilee Wee BEIJING, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Production was largely unaffected after a China ...

DanChurchAid - Denmark Heavy rainfall has caused flooding in Ethiopia. Thousands have been displaced and field crops have been destroyed

Source: Reuters Sept 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 1000 GMT on Wednesday. * denotes new or updated items. MIRANSHAH - A U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into Pakistan's ...

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) Sept 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1000 GMT on Wednesday. KABUL - A service member from the NATO-led ...

Source: Reuters MOSCOW, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a Russian federal judge in a North Caucasus province plagued by violence linked to an Islamist insurgency, authorities said on Wednesday. District judge ...

Source: Reuters MANILA, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The trial of a former mayor accused of masterminding the massacre of family members of a rival politician and dozens of journalists started in the Philippines on Wednesday, ...

Terre des hommes (Tdh) - Switzerland After the flooding that hit Pakistan and Eastern Afghanistan, Terre des hommes undertook a needs assessment in its two intervention areas: the border area of Torkham, and the region of Peshawar. ...

Source: Reuters BAGHDAD, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A car bomb and a roadside bomb exploded near a bus terminal in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding a score of others, police and Interior ...

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) KABUL, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Long queues formed outside the main branch of the crisis-hit Kabulbank, Afghanistan's top private bank, on Wednesday and police ...