KIBATI, Congo, Nov. 8, 2008 (Reuters) — Aid agency efforts to help thousands of people displaced by fighting in eastern Congo mostly failed on Saturday, despite an appeal by African leaders for a ceasefire. ... > full story
HERAT, Afghanistan, Nov. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — Foreign forces have killed seven civilians in an air strike in northwest Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday, a day after the Afghan president said warplanes had killed 40 civilians in the south. ... > full story
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 5, 2008 (Reuters) — A plane crash that killed Mexico's interior minister and closest ally, as well as his chief drug war adviser, does not appear to have been caused by sabotage, the government said on Wednesday. ... > full story
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 5, 2008 (Reuters) — If the International Criminal Court decides to indict Sudan's president for crimes in Darfur it could ruin a peace process that ended two decades of civil war, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday. ... > full story
MOGADISHU, Nov. 5, 2008 (Reuters) — Gunmen stormed an airstrip in Somalia on Wednesday, kidnapping two Kenyan pilots and four European aid workers in the latest strike against humanitarian organizations in the lawless Horn of Africa nation. ... > full story
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 5, 2008 (Reuters) — Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino, an ally of President Felipe Calderon, died on Tuesday when a small plane he was traveling in crashed into evening rush hour traffic in Mexico City. ... > full story
BOGOTA, Nov. 4, 2008 (Reuters) — Colombia's top army commander resigned Tuesday after the U.S.-backed military was rocked by charges soldiers killed civilians to present them as combat deaths and inflate their successes in a war against rebels. ... > full story
MONTERREY, Mexico, Nov. 3, 2008 (Reuters) — Suspected drug hitmen ambushed and killed two senior police officers with grenades and guns in Mexico, where escalating cartel violence has killed more than 4,000 people this year, police said on Monday. ... > full story
KABUL, Nov. 3, 2008 (Reuters) — Gunmen kidnapped a French aid worker in the Afghan capital on Monday and shot dead an Afghan driver for the national intelligence agency who tried to stop the abduction, a senior police officer said. ... > full story
KIBATI, Congo, Nov. 3, 2008 (Reuters) — A U.N. convoy carrying aid workers and medical supplies, escorted by U.N. troops, crossed into a rebel-held zone of eastern Congo on Monday on a mission to help tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting. ... > full story
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U.S. may airlift African peacekeepers to Darfur Nov. 3, 2008 (San Diego Union-Tribune) — The U.S. envoy for Africa said Monday that Washington was ready to airlift as many as 4,000 peacekeepers, including Ethiopians and Egyptians, for ...
Mia Farrow: The case for humanitarian intervention Nov. 3, 2008 (Globe and Mail, Canada) — At 6 a.m. on Aug. 25, Kalma camp, home to 90,000 displaced Darfuris, was surrounded by Sudanese government forces. By 7 a.m., 60 heavily armed ...
Delay on Darfur means genocide will continue Nov. 3, 2008 (Buffalo News) — Murder, rape and genocide ravish the people of Darfur, leaving countless victims. Our country has supported efforts to eliminate genocide in ...
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