Burma Shuts Red Cross Field Offices
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 27 -- Burma's military rulers have forced the International Committee of the Red Cross to shut down its five rural field offices, crippling the agency's ability to distribute aid to thousands of needy Burmese civilians, according to U.N. and Red Cross officials.
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Burma tells the UK to stay out of its affairs as concerns continue over its participation in an EU-Asia meeting.
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Offices, schools, shops and businesses  across Bangladesh shut down Saturday for the second strike in  less than a week called by the main opposition party to protest  against a grenade attack that nearly killed its leader.
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Doctors Without Borders has pulled all of its international staff out of Somalia after three of its aid workers were killed in a land mine explosion earlier this week, the group said Friday.
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The aid agency which Margaret Hassan worked for before she was kidnapped has closed down all its Iraqi operations and pleaded for her release.
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A Thai zoo workers sprays disinfect chemical as tigers look on at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi province, southeast of Bangkok, Thailand, after the zoo was ordered to close down Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004.
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Shops and schools were closed across Bangladesh yesterday after the main opposition party called a general strike to demand the government resign over a deadly grenade attack on a political rally.
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Myanmar's ruling junta on Friday abolished the intelligence departments headed by ousted Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt, signaling a sweeping crackdown against his supporters.
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Bangladesh&#39;s emergency government Thursday shut down the country&#39;s only 24-hour private news channel, officials said, just weeks after it was warned against airing &quot;provocative&quot; news during last month&#39;s nationwide student unrest.
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Two Red Cross workers are killed at a Palestinian refugee camp where troops are battling militants, officials say.
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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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The military government banned assemblies of more than five people and imposed curfews in Myanmar's two largest cities on Tuesday
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Myanmar's military government on Monday put monasteries under close watch and cut off the cell phone service of known dissidents to clamp down on the most sustained anti-government protests in a decade.
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YANGON, Myanmar  -- Myanmar announced Saturday that it was lifting a curfew and ending a ban on assembly imposed after a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the latest sign that the government believes it has extinguished the largest demonstrations in decades.
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Proposed staff cuts at the American Red Cross would fall almost entirely on the group's Washington workforce, said officials at the disaster-relief charity, who are expecting headquarters reductions to help close a $200 million budget gap and hone the organization's work at chapters across the...
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The British aid organisation Oxfam has announced the closure of two of its offices in Sudan&#039;s war-torn western region of Darfur following the abduction of a Sudanese employee.
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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.