Aid agency pulls out of Iraq
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Geneva - The aid agency doctors without borders, Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Thursday it was pulling out of Iraq because of escalating violence in the country and the danger to its staff.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British troops quit the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, an Iraqi general said, ending the British presence in the oil hub for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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British troops are pulling out of a base  at a palace in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday, a  British Ministry of Defense source said.
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Leading aid agency CARE International on Wednesday halted relief work in Iraq after its head of operations there was abducted, further fuelling fears that aid workers were becoming soft targets for extremists and common criminals.
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The political movement loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr withdrew from Iraq's ruling Shi'ite Alliance on Saturday, leaving Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition in a precarious position in parliament.
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WASHINGTON -- An international construction company has pulled out of its contract to rebuild Iraq's transportation systems, deciding it was too dangerous to stay, a spokesman for the US-led reconstruction effort said yesterday.
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The aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it is pulling out of Iraq because of the danger to its staff. MSF said it had become impossible &quot;to guarantee an acceptable level of security for our staff, be they foreign or Iraqi&quot;.
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The White House&#39;s director of postwar policy for Iraq, who was instrumental in helping to set up an interim government to lead that country until elections can be held, is stepping down.
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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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CARE International suspended aid operations in Iraq after its country director Margaret Hassan, who has dual Iraqi and British nationality, was kidnapped, said Grant Thomas, a spokesman for the organization.
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BAGHDAD : Iraq suffered a fresh blow as the foreign aid group CARE halted its operations in the violence-wracked country after the kidnapping of a top relief worker, while a car bomb blew up in Baghdad.
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Iraqi authorities pulled a brigade of about 700 policemen out of service Wednesday in its biggest move ever to uproot troops linked to death squads, aiming to signal the government's seriousness in cleansing Baghdad of sectarian violence.
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Aid agency Save the Children is pulling its 350 staff out of Sudan&#39;s Darfur region after the killing of four staff members in the past two months and with risks in the rebel area rising daily.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. SYDNEY, Australia -- The last remaining Australian aid agency in Iraq announced Friday it is pulling out following
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AMMAN, Oct 28  - The international charity CARE has shut down its operations in Iraq following the abduction last week of its director there, Briton Margaret Hassan, spokesman Arnoud Hekkens said in Jordan Thursday.
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Doctors Without Borders, the international medical charity that helps people in need throughout the world has announced it would be stopping all activities in the war-torn nation of Iraq because it could no longer guarantee the safety of its workers.
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Aid agency Care International has suspended its work in Iraq after the abduction of a British-Iraqi woman who heads the independent charity there, Australian officials say.