To Speed Healing, Ossetians Cling Together
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A Moscow hospital is filled with a mournful buzz and the activity of people grasping for a way to help six survivors of the three-day hostage-taking at Middle School No. 1.
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By Georgia Evdoxiadis Daily Herald Staff Writer
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Indonesia's idyllic island is slowly recovering from 2002's deadly blast, but for its victims, healing may take longer
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In todayÂs world of rapid-fire medicine, ÂinvolvedÂ relatives may be a patientÂs most important advocates.
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As the campfire burns  slowly, a group of Aborigines build a &quot;place of healing&quot; in a  remote outback camp where they will treat the ill using  traditional bush medicines.
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Millions of South Africans consult more than 200 000 traditional healers, who use rituals and herbal medicines to treat a wide range of illnesses.
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Georgian troops handed over strategic hilltops in the South Ossetian conflict zone to the joint peacekeeping forces, involving Georgian, Russian and Ossetian troops late on August 19.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- His grandmother's bones went missing two years ago, not long after the rains stopped. "The grave is all rubber trees" now, said Sev Thveal, 23. Part of the Jarai minority, he can barely read and write and has worked the land so long that his toenails are a permanent shade of...
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A new report urges humanitarian groups to maintain a local presence in disaster-prone areas.
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By getting damaged air bases up and running, rapid-deployment groups expedite the flow of disaster aid.
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The World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders and other international agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide
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A gel to speed up wound healing and reduce scarring is being developed by UK scientists.
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The relief effort moves in fits and starts in 11 nations where infrastructure has been destroyed and disease looms. By Chris Brummitt / Associated Press.
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With a religiously mixed population, aid efforts have meant reaching out across faith barriers.
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When a special space has become threatened, a collective force has been there ready to lend energy, money and time to preservation.
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Soflan Siukayev has already lived through one war in South Ossetia. Now his family has been caught up in a second. In his house in the centre of Tskhinvali, Soflan points out a blackened hole above the sofa the size of a man&#39;s hand.
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Pope John Paul II returned the bones of two of the most revered saints in the Orthodox Church on Saturday, one in a series of gestures aimed at healing a millennium of