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Baghdad - US troops were preventing a Red Crescent convoy of emergency aid from reaching helpless residents inside Fallujah on Saturday after allowing it as far as the main hospital, a spokesperson said.
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A relief convoy of ambulances and supplies Monday was turned back by Iraqi authorities or US Marines from entering Fallujah, a spokesman for the international Red Cross said.
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FOOD convoys to the Darfur region of Sudan were suspended after rebel forces attacked the market town of Ghubaysh and the government retaliated, reported the United Nations Office for the Co- ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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Soccer fans won't be allowed into stadiums in Italy for games unless security measures are met, a decision that comes days after rioting at a game in Sicily in which a police officer was killed.Comment
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U.S. troops barred anguished crowds from returning to their homes in the besieged city of Tal Afar on Monday as residents described corpses scattered across orchards and the collapse of essential services such as water and electricity.
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About 260,000 people in Sudan&#39;s strife-torn Darfur region will miss their food ration this month because the United Nations&#39; World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to suspend its relief convoys after rebels yesterday launched a large-scale attack on a
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A number of aid agencies evacuated their staff from a town in Sudan's Darfur region on Friday after unidentified gunmen attacked a house used by the International Committee of the Red Cross, aid workers said.
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Russia has ruled out UN Security Council sanctions against Sudan for its failure to control Arab militias in the Darfur region. The senior UN envoy to Sudan will brief the Council Thursday on his just-completed
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The International Red Cross temporarily has halted its missing person program in South and East Asia, according to local American Red Cross chapters.
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The international Red Cross said Wednesday that it had canceled a meeting with a French lawyer who wanted the agency to check whether former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was on hunger strike.
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Medical teams and convoys from the Iraqi Red Crescent are expected to enter the embattled city of Fallujah Saturday carrying urgent humanitarian assistance.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations said  it feared restrictions on aid workers in Aceh could hinder  international relief operations in the Indonesian province  devastated by last month's tsunami.
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Three bombings in Baghdad on Monday morning killed one person and wounded at least 13 people, while the Iraqi Red Crescent has suspended its work in the Iraqi capital to protest the mass kidnapping of its workers.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq A delegation from the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah has suspended peace talks with the Iraqi government. A spokesman for the religious council of Fallujah says the delegation cannot comply
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Efforts to scale back the U.S. detention center at the Bagram military base are failing, and its conditions have drawn a strong complaint from the Red Cross.
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A curfew and weapons ban was in effect and Shiite pilgrims were evacuated from the holy city of Karbala after fighting there killed 26 people and wounded 33 others, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
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KHARTOUM : Sudan&#39;s military-backed government imposed a security clampdown after announcing that it had foiled a coup attempt by supporters of its now jailed former Islamist ally Hassan al-Turabi.