HARARE, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — The Zimbabwean capital, Harare, is offering free graves for victims of a cholera outbreak sweeping the southern African state, which a United Nations agency says is only the tip of a health crisis. ... > full story
DOHA, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) — The world needs "to think big" to solve the global financial crisis while helping reduce poverty, the U.N. secretary-general said on Friday. ... > full story
BRUSSELS, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) — Aid flows to poor countries must be maintained despite the global financial crisis, the European Union executive said on Friday ahead of a U.N. conference on development financing. ... > full story
XIENG KHOUANG, Laos, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Imagine growing up in a country where the equivalent of a B52 planeload of cluster bombs was dropped every eight minutes for nine years. ... > full story
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called on Wednesday for the first summit of major emerging market countries known as BRICs in Russia next year. ... > full story
JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 25, 2008 (Reuters) — Zimbabwe's opposition vowed to resist any compromise that would leave it sidelined in a unity government with President Robert Mugabe's party at new talks on Tuesday. ... > full story
BUMBESTI-JIU, Romania, Nov. 25, 2008 (Reuters) — After Pirelli turned parts of Bumbesti-Jiu's crumbling industrial zone into a new factory last year, residents of this small town in southwestern Romania hoped the lean years were over. ... > full story
JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 25, 2008 (Reuters) — Zimbabwe's opposition vowed to resist any compromise that would leave it sidelined in a unity government with President Robert Mugabe's party at new talks due to start on Tuesday. ... > full story
DHAKA, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — Bangladesh is on track to halve poverty levels by 2015 after significant progress over the past decade despite a series of external shocks, the World Bank said on Sunday. ... > full story
KACHAGARI, Pakistan, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — Pakistan has reopened camps originally set up in the 1980s for Afghans who fled the Soviet occupation to provide shelter for those made homeless by offensives against Islamist militants on its northwest border. ... > full story
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Cholera worsens in Zimbabwe Nov. 28, 2008 (Nebraska.tv) — Humanitarian groups are scrambling to get a grip on Zimbabwe's cholera problem, which has killed more than 400 people amid the country's political ...
Zimbabwe seeks help with cholera Nov. 28, 2008 (Brisbane Times, Australia) — Zimbabwe appealed for aid to fight its cholera epidemic as the official number of deaths approached 400 and officials blamed the West for the ...
Zimbabwe: ZCTU Calls for Mass Action Against the Central Bank Nov. 28, 2008 (AllAfrica.com) — Zimbabwe's labour leaders have called for mass public action to protest against the central bank's restrictive cap on cash withdrawal limits - amid ...
Suspected cases rise in KZN Nov. 27, 2008 (Star, South Africa) — Another three Zimbabweans with suspected cholera have been admitted to two Durban hospitals, health department officials said yesterday.. . Two ...
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