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A roti - wheat chapati - India's staple food World could be headed towards another food crisis
With drought parching farms in the United States and near the Black Sea, weak monsoon rains in India and insidious hunger in Africa's Sahel region, the world could be headed towards another food... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Middle East Online
Food   Monsoon   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Food crisis
An armed soldier on the streets of the Libyan capital Tripoli, 4 June, 2012. Libya capital wakes up to twin car bombs on Eid al-Fitr
TRIPOLI - Twin car bomb blasts killed two people at dawn on Sunday in the Libyan capital, security officials said, blaming loyalists of now slain dictator Moamer Gathafi for the attacks. Tripoli's... (photo: AP / Timm Schamberger/dapd) Middle East Online
Defence   Libya   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Aftermath of the Libyan civil war
File - Bolivian United Nations peacekeepers distribute water and meals to the residents of Cité Soleil, Haiti. How £11bn pledged for water sanitation aid never arrived
World aid donors pledged to spend £34bn of water and sanitation aid between 2002 and 2010 but only released £23bn of it, according to a new report by WaterAid and Development Initiatives, Addressing... (photo: UN / Marco Dormino) The Independent
Aid   Development   Health   Photos   Wikipedia: Water supply and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa
File - In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, embattled African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) leader Julius Malema, gives a black power salute, near Pretoria, South Africa, during his first public appearance since an appeals ruling to dismiss him from the ruling party was upheld. The ruling ANC upheld the ruling to expel Malema from his position as ANCYL leader. Ousted SAfrica Leader Blames Gov't for Mine Deaths
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Expelled politician Julius Malema blames senior members of the governing African National Congress for police killing 34 striking miners this week, and says South African... (photo: AP / Denis Farrell) The New York Times
Mining   Photos   Politics   Safrica
Delegates of The Elders group of retired prominent world figures, former Irish president Mary Robinson (C-R), Indian activist Ela Bhatt (C-back) and former UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi (3rd R), visit a UN-run school in Deir Al-Balah refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on October 16, 2010 during a visit to the Hamas-run Palestinian territory. (Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN) Syria welcomes Algerian Brahimi as Annan successor
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government on Saturday welcomed the naming of a former Algerian diplomat as the U.N.'s new point-man in efforts to halt the country's escalating civil war. Activists reported... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Houston Chronicle
Algeria   Diplomacy   Photos   Syria   Wikipedia: Lakhdar Brahimi
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