Refugee horses starving, says group
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An animal rights group Friday called for an international team of vets to examine dozens of famed Lipizzaner horses it says face starvation while Serbia and Croatia argue over their ownership.
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Â· 31 animals found dead in field  Â· Charities describe scene of unprecedented cruelty
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The United Nations' food relief agency is gearing up for a "critical stage" in feeding refugees in western Sudan as more people flee ethnic violence there and the rainy season peaks, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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The World Food Program said Thursday that it is racing against time to deliver food to some 600,000 needy Afghans in villages that will soon be cut off by heavy winter snow.
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For centuries the Tsaatan people have roamed Mongolia with the reindeer that provide their livelihood. But disease and inbreeding now threaten their herds&#151;and cultural future. With photo gallery.
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Polio, which can paralyse small children, has become the latest threat to refugees already struggling with famine and disease in the camps of Darfur.
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More than 100,000 Himalayan goats Â famed for their pashmina wool Â or cashmere Â face starvation after their desert habitat was blanketed with snow, while three people died during the region's worst storms in three decades, officials said Thursday.
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International relief agencies were concentrating their efforts on countries least able to cope with what officials said Monday was &quot;unprecedented&quot; devastation wrought by tidal
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KHARTOUM, 17 October 2004 - Sudan yesterday questioned UN estimates that up to 70,000 people had died from hunger and disease in its remote Darfur region since a rebellion began 20 months ago.
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Sewage and rabid animals are hindering the return of refugees to the battered Iraqi city, the US military says.
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Fighting between NATO-led forces and insurgents across southern Afghanistan has displaced an estimated 80,000 to 90,000 people over the past few months, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.
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An Afghan militant group that kidnapped three UN workers over a week ago told the government and United Nations on Thursday to stop stalling negotiations, adding the hostages were cold and sick.
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The UN food relief agency claimed yesterday that Sudanese security forces were surrounding refugee camps in Darfur and blocking access to humanitarian groups.
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BAGHDAD, July 6 -- U.N. refugee officials on Friday accused donor countries of neglecting the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Iraq flooding into neighboring Syria and Jordan.
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About 360,000 needy people in Sudan's Darfur region are out of reach of the World Food Program because of fighting, officials said on Tuesday.
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Thousands of underfed children could face starvation if rains do not bring relief to drought-ravaged regions of Guatemala soon, government officials and aid agencies said on Friday.
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Drought, AIDS and chronic poverty in the landlocked southern African states of Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe are putting hundreds of thousands at risk of hunger, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.