Tajikistan 'facing catastrophe'
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The UN's World Food Programme warns that Tajikistan is experiencing emergency food shortages.
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Â· Diplomats trawl refugee camps for any delegates Â· UN also faces 'disaster' over international force
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Ukraine's leap toward democracy has inspired opposition leaders in formerly Soviet Central Asia and alarmed its long-ruling autocrats, but analysts say the region isn't ready for a democratic revolution.
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Aid agency Oxfam warned Thursday of the risk of a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan unless Western countries make a "major change of direction" in their strategy in the violence-scarred country.
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A train and a minibus collide in the capital of Tajikistan, killing nine people and seriously injuring three.
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Ukraine&#39;s political crisis has virtually paralyzed the country, brought hundreds of thousands of protesters into the streets and threatened to erupt into civil war.
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East Timor could slide into renewed violence if it does not reform its security services, a think-tank says.
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The chief of the Bangladesh army says the country is facing a catastrophe over rice supplies.
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ASHGABAT: The Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan said yesterday it had carried out a threat to cut gas supplies to Russia and Ukraine but was ready to turn the pumps back on in return for higher prices.
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The national security of Ukraine is in danger, according to a written statement sent to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and Ukrainian parliament speaker Volodymyr Litvin by Oleksandr Zinchenko, the head of ...
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KHOST, Tajikistan  - Every spring meltwater dislodges bomblets in the mountains and sends them down steep gulleys towards inhabited areas.
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World leaders including the prime ministers of Australia and Japan are heading to Jakarta for an emergency summit on the tsumami catastrophe, an event sure to pose huge security headaches in a country where ...
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Millions of people face starving to death after a drought in Afghanistan, the UK charity Christian Aid warns.
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&#34;This is a terrible tragedy and an unbearable loss.&#34;
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Russian officials today gave the new figure for casualties in the violent ending of the school standoff. There are fears it could go even higher.
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The UN emergency relief agency is struggling to respond to a natural disaster that has brought death and destruction to at least eight countries.
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Huge casualties are reported from tidal waves and earth tremors in southern and eastern Asia.