TEHRAN (AFP) – A close aide to Iran's reformist former president Mohammad Khatami denied to AFP on Tuesday a media report that he had been banned from travelling...
Bob Geldof upped the ante in the row between Band Aid and the BBC yesterday by calling for the director of the BBC World Service, Peter Horrocks - who is also the BBC's director of global news - to be sacked. The musician-turned-poverty campaigner also called for two...
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and NEIL MacFARQUHAR As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff, according to a new Security Council report. The report, which...
updated 5:37 p.m. ET March 9, 2010 WASHINGTON - Legislation to give additional months of unemployment benefits to people who have been out of a job for more than half a year cleared a key hurdle Tuesday that guarantees it will soon pass the Senate. The sweeping bill...
As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff, according to a new Security Council report. The report, which has not yet been made public but was...
WASHINGTON - Legislation to give additional months of unemployment benefits to people who have been out of a job for more than half a year cleared a key hurdle Tuesday that guarantees it will soon pass the Senate. The sweeping bill also would prevent doctors from...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Finance Corp on Tuesday approved $35 million to help companies in Haiti rebuild and create jobs following devastation caused by a January earthquake, which has devastated the economy. The emergency program by the World Bank's...
Berlin - Germany's opposition Green party accused the government of putting the country's exporters before the world's poor on Tuesday, calling for reforms of state aid agencies. The Greens, in coalition government in Berlin from 2000-08, accused DevelopmentMinister...
Colombo: Former Tamil rebels and ex-paramilitary troops were given fishing gear, carpentry tools and agricultural equipment as part of a rehabilitation programme, officials...
Colombo - Former Tamil rebels and ex-paramilitary troops were given fishing gear, carpentry tools and agricultural equipment as part of a rehabilitation programme,...