Ethiopia deadline for Red Cross
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The Red Cross is ordered to leave the Somali Ogaden region of Ethiopia after complaints of an aid blockade.
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As the world scrambled to the rescue, survivors fought over packs of noodles in quake-stricken Indonesian streets Wednesday while relief supplies piled up at the airport for lack of cars, gas or passable roads to move them. The official death toll across 12 countries soared to near 77,000 and the Red Cross predicted it could pass 100,000.
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The Red Cross federation, the world's  biggest humanitarian group, said Wednesday it had raised a  record $1.167 billion in just 30 days for victims of the Asian  tsunami, enough to fund a 10-year recovery plan.
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NAIROBI -- The Ethiopian government is blockading emergency food aid and choking off trade to large parts of a remote region in the eastern part of the country that is home to a rebel force, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk of starvation, Western diplomats and humanitarian officials say.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan - Sudan, awaiting word on whether it will be sanctioned by the international community, hopes for a &quot;reasonable decision&quot; from the UN Security Council, the foreign minister said Monday, the UN-imposed deadline for quelling violence in
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The countdown has started on a  flickering billboard high above a roundabout in Ethiopia's  capital, blinking out recently in red and gold letters: only  209 days, 15 hours, 22 minutes and 22 seconds to the  Millennium.
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The global Red Cross issued an emergency  appeal Sunday for immediate aid to hundreds of thousands of  people stricken by the tsunamis in South-East Asia.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 24  (IPS) - The European Union is beginning to take action over  the human rights crisis in Darfur  ahead of the Aug. 29 United  Nations deadline to the Sudanese government.
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A deadline is raising tensions and upping the stakes in a UN-Khartoum showdown.
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Wrongheaded relief work may worsen the situation of disaster victims, warns the international Red Cross.
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The countdown has started on a flickering billboard high above a roundabout in Ethiopia's capital, blinking out recently in red and gold letters: only 209 days, 15 hours, 22 minutes and 22 seconds to the Millennium.
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[World News]: Washington, Dec 30 : The American Red Cross, in response to its appeal for funds to help tsunami-hit victims, received about 18 million dollars in donations to its International Response Fund by today afternoon.
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BEIJING, Dec. 29 -- International relief continues to flow into areas affected by Sunday&#39;s tsunami. The Red Cross is shifting over 100 metric tons of emergency supplies from Kenya to Sri Lanka, the country hardest hit by the tidal waves.
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The Red Cross and other international aid organizations have not been able to enter the conflict zone in Fallujah in more than a week of fighting, the agency said Monday, as concern spread about the civilians trapped inside the embattled Iraqi city.
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Strife-torn Sudan will become the largest focus of aid work for the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2005, while money earmarked for Iraq will fall by almost one third, the agency said.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 24 (IPS) - The European Union is beginning to take action over  the human rights crisis in Darfur ahead of the Aug. 29 United  Nations deadline to the Sudanese government.
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The death toll from Sunday's quake disaster will rise yet further and may top 100,000, the Red Cross says.