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21 May 2008
 
 
Fewer children go to war, but problem lingers
INTERNATIONAL
The number of children forced to fight wars around the world has fallen but a hardcore of governments, rebels and armed groups are resisting pressure to stop using underage soldiers, a report said...
 
 
19 May 2008
 
Drought returns to haunt Ethiopia
ETHIOPIA
Ethiopian mother Ayantu Tamon has lost a child to hunger every year for the last four and now cradles her severely malnourished and weakened three-year-old son Hirbu in her arms. "I just hope...
 
 
13 May 2008
 
SA: Dlamini Zuma: Foreign Affairs Dept Budget Vote Speech, 2008/09 (13/05/2008)
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Budget Vote Speech of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, to the National Assembly
 
 
12 May 2008
 
US flies cyclone aid to Myanmar
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The first U.S. military aid flight landed in Myanmar on Monday, but relief supplies continued to just dribble into the reclusive state nine days after a devastating cyclone. A C-130 military...
 
 
08 May 2008
 
McCain pledges to champion religious freedoms
UNITED STATES
Republican John McCain said Wednesday religious freedom was suffering in China, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere and pledged to champion the right to worship if elected president in a speech aimed at...
 
 
07 Apr 2008
 
Slowing deforestation may be worth $billions - study
CLIMATE CHANGE
A slowdown of deforestation from the Amazon to the Congo basin could generate billions of dollars every year for developing nations as part of a U.N. scheme to fight climate change, a study showed...
 
 
04 Apr 2008
 
New global push sought to scrap chemical weapons
INTERNATIONAL
Nations including Syria, Iraq and Israel should join a landmark pact for destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons as they serve hardly any security or strategic purpose, a watchdog agency said on...
 
 
02 Apr 2008
 
Amnesty lays into China on rights before Olympics
BEIJING 2008
The Olympics have so far failed to catalyse reform in China and pledges to improve human rights before the Games look disingenuous after a string of violations in Beijing and a crackdown in Tibet,...
 
 
31 Mar 2008
 
Proposed Myanmar charter bars Suu Kyi from office
News
Detained Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not be allowed to stand for election in army-ruled Myanmar because she was once married to a foreigner, its proposed new...
 
 
10 Mar 2008
 
UN envoy meets Myanmar's Suu Kyi again
MYANMAR
U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari met detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for the second time in three days on Monday shortly before flying out with no apparent breakthrough in his push to...
 
 
28 Feb 2008
 
WFP chief to ask US for help on shrinking food aid
UNITED NATIONS
The head of the World Food Programme will lobby U.S. officials this week to expand food aid contributions to help offset soaring food and oil prices that have shriveled needed relief for hungry...
 
 
20 Feb 2008
 
Tutu joins call for UN sanctions on Myanmar
INTERNATIONAL
Nine Nobel peace laureates called on the U.N. Security Council and the international community on Tuesday to impose arms and banking sanctions on Myanmar for failing to move toward democracy....
 
 
14 Feb 2008
 
Myanmar rebel leader shot dead
MYANMAR
A leader of Myanmar's biggest rebel group was shot dead at his home in a Thai border town on Thursday in an assassination immediately blamed on troops loyal to the former Burma's military...
 
 
13 Feb 2008
 
Steven Spielberg quits as Olympics adviser
DARFUR
Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg withdrew on Tuesday as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing over China's policy on the conflict in Sudan's Darfur...
 
 
UN threatens tougher action on use of child soldiers
UNITED NATIONS
The U.N. Security Council threatened on Tuesday to step up measures against armies and groups using child soldiers but made no firm pledge to impose sanctions requested by Secretary-General Ban...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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