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U.S. worried more secret documents may be released

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:02:27 +0000

Source: Reuters * U.S. has tried to make contact with WikiLeaks * Detained Army analyst moved from Kuwait to U.S. base * Officials urge WikiLeaks not to post more U.S. documents By David Alexander WASHINGTON ...

UN sanctions dropped against 5 senior Taliban

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:39:56 +0000

Source: Reuters * Russia has been reluctant to delist Taliban * More Taliban could be delisted in future (Adds U.S. reaction, background) By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, July 30 (Reuters) - Five Taliban ...

FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, July 30

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:27:05 +0000

Source: Reuters July 30 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1600 GMT on Friday (* denotes new or updated item): KABUL - A member of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force ...

Eastern Africa polio-free, but cases found in Russia

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:22:51 +0000

Source: Reuters * Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda report no cases for a year * But new polio cases detected in Russia and Congo GENEVA, July 30 (Reuters) - Eastern Africa is free of polio again, with four ...

Afghan police fire shots to quell protest after accident

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:57:48 +0000

Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) KABUL, July 30 (Reuters) - Afghan police fired shots on Friday to disperse hundreds of people protesting the deaths of civilians in an accident involving ...

Five Taliban delisted by UN committee-diplomat

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:39:30 +0000

Source: Reuters UNITED NATIONS, July 30 (Reuters) - Five Taliban have been struck off a U.N. Security Council list of people subject to sanctions, a U.N. diplomat said on Friday. The move followed a review of the ...

COLUMN-Afghanistan and America's troubled backyard: B Debusmann

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:30:11 +0000

Source: Reuters (Bernd Debusmann is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own) By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The United States is spending around $6.5 billion a month on the ...

Somalia: Displacement and worsening humanitarian situation as a result of ongoing violence and conflict

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:30:00 +0000

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Renewed fighting in Mogadishu and other areas of Somalia since May 2009 has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians and also exacerbated the already desperate humanitarian situation of existing internally displaced people (IDPs), in particular the children and women among them.

AFRICA: Addressing the role of religion in HIV response

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:18:41 +0000

Source: IRIN At a church compound in Nairobi's Mathare slum, women and their children line up for food rations. Among them is Zipporah Mueni, an HIV-positive mother of five.

Hearts and mind hard to reach in Afghan valley

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:32:16 +0000

Source: Reuters By Rob Taylor SAIDON KALACHEH, Afghanistan, July 30 (Reuters) - Defeating insurgents in Afghanistan's volatile Arghandab Valley would take time, but there were now enough U.S. and Afghan troops to ...