The world's population is forecast to hit 7 billion in 2011, the vast majority of its growth coming in developing and, in many cases, the poorest nations

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GENEVA: A suicide bomb attack on a World Food Programme (WFP) office in Islamabad that killed five people on Monday was a 'heinous crime,' United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon said.

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New York - Talks between the United Nations and North Korea have become "much more fruitful," the UN chief of political affairs said Monday.

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Actor George Clooney lamented at the weekend the ongoing failure to secure a lasting peace in Sudan's Darfur region, but vowed to keep shining a light on the country's problems.

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We suggested... [that the representatives] pick what we would donate, so it would be useful."

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With a billion people on the planet going hungry every day, the world's response to the urgent hunger needs of the most vulnerable is flagging, with the result that critical food assistance is already being cut.

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Israel committed clear acts of violence and detention against the Spirit's passengers, acts, which, under the UN Convention on the High Seas, are unlawful.

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Five years ago, Mr. Harrison was a nightclub promoter in Manhattan who spent his nights surrounded by friends in a blur of alcohol, cocaine and marijuana.

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6/16/2009 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFNS) -- Members of the 375th Logistics Readiness Squadron here June 12 loaded the 26,000-pound heart of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine onto a C-17 Globemaster III bound for Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. -- and ultimately Argentina.

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On June 6, 2009 Iraqi police and U.S. military forces provided food and soccer balls to "the Iraqi village of Qutan." Although I am basically a pacifist, I wanted to seed this article from the U.S. military that demonstrates part of the humanitarian aspect of its mission.

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This should be seen as a threat to our credibility and integrity. If we are to pressure Pakistan to deal with militants within their borders for our benefit then we need to be willing to aid them in their efforts.

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"the United States -- the single largest contributor of food aid to these people -- must make a choice. Will we walk away and let hundreds of thousands die of slow starvation, or will we push our aid package even harder?"

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Africa needs aid, but not the kind the West is currently providing. Conventional development aid has turned the continent into a dependent recipient of charity. We should halt the handouts and adopt successful micro-lending models instead, helping Africans to help themselves.

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Despite Troubled Economy, Billion-Dollar Effort Helps Easter Story Travel Faster

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AIG bosses could learn a thing or two from this boy. After stumbling upon WFP.org while surfing the web, a British schoolboy has decided to give up birthday and succeeded in feeding 1000 hungry children.

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Pakistan, riven by political tensions in the last few days, has an ongoing need for food assistance which has deepened recently due to high food prices, conflict and natural disasters. In response, WFP is ramping up its programmes

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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir says he wants all international aid groups out of the country within a year.

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Top Jewish leaders have now turned on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for daring to criticize Israel over the humanitarian aid to Gaza issue.

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US Democratic representatives Brian Baird and Keith Ellison visited a Hamas-run Palestinian enclave within the war-shattered Gaza Strip and comment on what they saw.

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UNRWA, the massive United Nations bureaucracy that administers assistance to the Palestinians, is locked in an unseemly epithet-laden battle here with some pro-Israel figures who say the relief agency should be shut down because it has been co-opted by radicals.

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) announced Friday it will suspend its humanitarian aid to Gaza until further notice due to a Hamas raid on the agency's distribution center and a subsequent attack on an aid convoy.

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Wycliffe Bible Translators leads effort to begin Bible translation and literacy programs in all remaining languages by 2025; helps AIDS epidemic in Africa

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Much humanitarian aid for Gaza sits waiting at border crossings.

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In one of his first official acts, Barack Obama has lifted a ban on foreign aid to organisations that provide abortion counselling and services. We're now the only country in the world with such a ban, writes Ruby Murray

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President Barack Obama has lifted a US funding ban for groups providing abortion services abroad, reversing a policy of his predecessor, George Bush.

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