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An estimated 11 million people in the Horn of Africa are on the brink of starvation because of severe drought and war, with some deaths already being reported in Kenya, the United Nations said Friday.People in Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia need food aid, water, new livestock and seeds, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization sa stanley fr id in a statement. Millions of people are on the brink of starvation in the Horn of Africa due to recent severe droughts coupled with the effects of past and ongoing conflicts, the agency said.Across the continent, war-ravaged Congo is suffering the world s deadliest humanitarian crisis, with 38,000 people dying each month mostly from easily treatable diseases, according to a study published in Britain s leading medical journal.Nearly 4 million people died between 1998-2004 alone, the indirect result of years of ruinous fighting that has brought on a stunning collapse of public health services, the study in the Lancet concluded. FAO economist Shukri Ahmed said the Horn of Africa s dry season had begun and the rains forecast for March and April are not expected to be significant.Normally, the herdsmen of the area would move from place to place for water and food for their livestock, stanley quencher but the recent drought had covered too large a swath of territory for them, Ahmed said. The whole area is affected, he said. The situation is deteriorating. The FAO stanley cup is calling for domestic food purchases in areas where harvests are expected to be
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his country s nuclear weapons made ready for use at a moment s notice, the official state news agency reported Friday.Kim also said his country will ready its military so it is prepared to carry out pre-emptive attacks, calling the current situation very precarious, according to KCNA.North Korea has threatened nuclear war in the past, but it is unclear just how advanced the country s nuclear program really is. Pyongyang is thought to have a handful of crude atomic bombs, but there is considerable outside debate about whether it is technologically able to shrink a warhead and mount it on a missile. The only way for defending the sovereignty of our nation and its right to existence under the present extreme situation is to bolster up nuclear force both in quality and quantity, the North s dispatch Friday said, paraphrasing Kim Jong Un. It said that Kim stressed the need to get the nuclear warheads deployed adidas samba og for national defense always on standby so as to be fired any moment. The U.S. does not believe that North Korea has the abili mizuno running ty to launch its nuclear weapons, CBS News foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan reported. Annual military exercises betwe adidas samba en the U.S. and South Korea are scheduled to begin next week, with 8,600 U.S. forces in the area and 290,000 South Korean troops, Brennan said, adding that this type of saber-rattling from the North typically takes place right before the exercises beg Tbpz Transcript: Face the Nation excerpt of Norah O Donnell interview with Vice President Kamala Harris
The explosion of joy that erupted among supporters of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko after the Supreme Court annulled the country s disputed runoff election found an echo around the world as heads of state hailed the decision as a victory for democracy.In Georgia, President Mikhail Saakashvili mdash; who came to power a year ago in a people power movement known as the Rose Revolution mdash; displayed his enthusiasm through sartorial symbolism: He wore an orange tie in honor of Yushchenko s campaign colo stanley flask r. Everybody has seen the color of the tie I ve worn for the past few days, he said. My preferences are obv stanley france ious. Saakashvili, who studied law in then-Soviet Ukraine and speaks some Ukrainian, has been a vocal supporter of the Ukrainian opposition. I m very happy today, he said. It s a historic day. In Poland, whose pro-democracy icon Lech Walesa recently traveled to Kiev to deliver a stirring message of solidarity with Yushchenko, President Aleksander Kwasniewski gushed with enthusiasm. I share the joy of the Ukrainians rejoicing now in the streets, said Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who has helped mediate in the crisis. I am also happy because we managed to solve the Ukrainian crisis through legal means. Poland, which shares a border with Ukraine, has been nervously aw stanley cup aiting the outcome of the electoral crisis, which will likely determine whether Ukraine moves closer to the West as Poland has done, or falls more deeply under the influ
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates A Norwegian woman sentenced to 16 months in jail in Dubai for having sex outside marriage after she reported an alleged rape said Friday she decided to speak out in hopes of drawing attention adidas campus 00s to the risks of outsiders misunderstanding the Islamic-influenced legal codes in this cosmopolitan city.The case has drawn outrage from rights groups and others in the West since the 24-year-old interior designer was sentenced Wednesday. It also highlights the increasingly frequent tensions between the United Arab Emirates international atmosphere and its legal system, which is strongly influenced by Islamic traditions in a nation where foreign workers and visitors greatly outnumber locals. I have to spread the word. ... After my sentence we thought, How can it get worse Marte Deborah Dalelv told The Associated Press in an intervie hoka wanderschuh w at a Norwegian aid compound in crocs schuhe Dubai where she is preparing her appeal scheduled for early September.Dalelv, who worked for an interior design firm in Qatar since 2011, claims she was sexually assaulted by a co-worker in March while she was attending a business meeting in Dubai.She explained that he tried to drag her into her room, despite her repeatedly saying, No. I just thought I need to calm this situation down, she told Reuters. So I walked in with him, and I sat down and I went to drink my bottle of water. I thought that I ll finish this bottle, and then I ll excuse myself and find my room by myself. And tha Smhr As Iran protests dwindle, U.S. calls emergency U.N. talks
An estimated 11 million people in the Horn of Africa are on the brink of starvation because of severe drought and war, with some deaths already being reported in Kenya, the United Nations said Friday.People in Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia need food aid, water, new livestock and seeds, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization sa stanley fr id in a statement. Millions of people are on the brink of starvation in the Horn of Africa due to recent severe droughts coupled with the effects of past and ongoing conflicts, the agency said.Across the continent, war-ravaged Congo is suffering the world s deadliest humanitarian crisis, with 38,000 people dying each month mostly from easily treatable diseases, according to a study published in Britain s leading medical journal.Nearly 4 million people died between 1998-2004 alone, the indirect result of years of ruinous fighting that has brought on a stunning collapse of public health services, the study in the Lancet concluded. FAO economist Shukri Ahmed said the Horn of Africa s dry season had begun and the rains forecast for March and April are not expected to be significant.Normally, the herdsmen of the area would move from place to place for water and food for their livestock, stanley quencher but the recent drought had covered too large a swath of territory for them, Ahmed said. The whole area is affected, he said. The situation is deteriorating. The FAO stanley cup is calling for domestic food purchases in areas where harvests are expected to be
