OSH, 30 June– Authorities in southern Kyrgyzstan have urged the government to declare the south an emergency area and develop a programme to move people from disaster-exposed mountainous villages to more secure places. There have […]

KINSHASA, 30 June– Rebels and the government of the Demnocratic Republic of the Congo agreed on Sunday to share posts in a new unified military posts, breaking the deadlock to the formation of a two-year […]

Baghdad, 29 June– U.S. troops in Iraq have launched what they call a major operation aimed at rooting out supporters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. They call it Operation Desert Sidewinder. It is the […]

Abidjan, 29 June– Liberian President Charles Taylor says he is ready to invite U.S. troops to help end a four-year civil war in the West African nation which was founded by freed American slaves. He […]

Washington, 28 June– While 2003 has been a ”tough year” for U.S.-Turkey relations, says Under Secretary of State Alan Larson, the two countries are laying the foundations for an economic relationship that can be stronger […]

Washington, 28 June– Secretary of State Colin Powell on June 27 welcomed an agreement-in-principle between Israel and the Palestinian Authority for the transfer of security responsibilities in the Gaza Strip. In comments to the press […]

CHAMAN, Pakistan, 27 June– Hundreds of Afghan refugee families are set for relocation next week when the UN refugee agency starts clearing a controversial makeshift camp just inside the Pakistani border. The camp, better known […]

Maaji, Uganda, 28 June– Elisha Kao cannot recall how many times he and his nine children have fled their refugee home in Maaji settlement, northern Uganda, to escape from rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army […]