U.N. says Iraqi deaths hit new high, many flee
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Iraqi deaths hit a new high in October and 100,000 people are fleeing abroad every month to escape worsening violence that is segregating the country on sectarian lines, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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The death toll in Thursday's Baghdad bombings rose to 202, police said as another 22 people were killed in a double suicide attack in the northern city of Tal Afar, heightening fears Iraq is sliding towards civil war.
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At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants drowned when a smuggler's boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, adding it was checking reports the death toll was as high as 78.
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The number of civilians killed in Iraq is continuing to fall, data published by Iraqi ministries suggest.
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About 70,000 people are thought to have died since March in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region, the UN says.
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Hundreds more Iraqis died in violence   in July and August than in the previous two months, many of   them tortured to death because of their religion with cables,   acid and power drills, a U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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AT LEAST 21 people were killed in the latest in a renewed spree of attacks to hit Iraq, as a top UN official issued a stark warning that elections could not be held in the current climate of violence.
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Poor planning, air strikes by coalition forces and a &quot;climate of violence&quot; have led to more than 100,000 extra deaths in Iraq, scientists say.
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Poor planning and coalition air strikes have led to more than 100,000 extra civilian deaths in Iraq, scientists find.
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Violence is increasing in camps for displaced people in Darfur, where nearly a quarter million people have been displaced so far this year, a U.N. report said on Monday.
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BAGHDAD  - At least 21 people were killed in the latest in a renewed spree of attacks to hit Iraq , as a top UN official issued a stark warning that elections could not be held in the current climate of violence.
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Unrelenting violence and insecurity in Iraq could cause as many as 1 million Iraqis to flee their homes this year, the world's migration body said Friday.
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The level of violence in Iraq is "much worse" than that of Lebanon's civil war, outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in an interview aired Monday.
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LONDON - As many as 100,000 more people may have died throughout Iraq since the US-led invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war, a survey indicates.
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A study published by the Lancet says the risk of death by violence for civilians in Iraq is now 58 times higher than before the US-led invasion.
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Dozens of international aid agencies  considered quitting Iraq Wednesday following the abduction of  two Italian women, and as the U.S. military death toll rose  above 1,000.
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The killing in Iraq is now worse than civil war, outgoing UN chief Kofi Annan says in a BBC interview.