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UN chief warns Darfur force is at risk
Dec 6 2007 8:32PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday that a new peacekeeping force for Darfur could fail unless it gets 24 critically needed helicopters and he appealed to all countries for help.
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UN seeks aid for Somalia, Sudan refugees
Dec 6 2007 5:41PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. humanitarian chief warned that terrible atrocities and urban warfare were engulfing Somalia's capital and called for a large increase in aid to handle a burgeoning population of refugees fleeing Mogadishu.
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Ugandan health workers hit by Ebola
Dec 6 2007 4:49PM (CT)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Health workers are among the dead in an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, spreading panic among doctors and nurses needed to help treat victims of the highly contagious disease, officials said.
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Sudan reacts angrily at world pressure
Dec 6 2007 3:39PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan lashed out Thursday at an international court prosecutor over an investigation into Khartoum officials for Darfur atrocities, the latest in its increasingly defensive reactions to international humanitarian pressure.
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Card leads to arrest in Zimbabwe
Dec 6 2007 3:30PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A Zimbabwe tourism promoter faces up to a year in jail for using a 10-cent Zimbabwe bank note _ not enough to buy a matchstick _ as a business card at a tourism fair in London.
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Liberia commission visits mass graves
Dec 6 2007 11:50AM (CT)
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Visiting mass graves with hundreds of bodies, Liberian officials offered help to villagers who told stories of devastation from the nation's civil wars.
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