Kidnapped aid worker makes contact

The Press Association

An Irish aid worker and her colleague being held hostage by an armed gang in Darfur have made contact with their agency's office, a senior Sudanese official ...

Kidnapped Ugandan Aid Worker Could Be Released Today The Independent

Kidnapped Irish aid worker speaks to officials as hopes for ... Irish Times

'Gangs kidnapped aid workers ' News24

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Aid worker accused of misusing UN funds

Buffalo News

Deborah C. Bowers earned a sterling reputation as a minister's wife, a literacy volunteer, an aid worker who helped poor children in Iraq and ...

Aid worker indicted for defrauding UN Times of the Internet



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Rural Medical Camp Tackles Health Care Gaps

NPR

Hundreds of tired and desperate people crowded around an aid worker with a bullhorn, straining to hear the instructions and worried they might be left out. ...



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UN aid workers join assessment team in southern Sudan in wake of ...

UN News Centre

... people in the region before next month's expected start of the rainy season, when it will become much more difficult for aid workers to operate. ...



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Nurse enjoys working in a war zone

Auckland stuff.co.nz

The New Zealand Red Cross aid worker has been in the Sudan for the past three months working as a ward nurse with the flying surgical team, helping perform ...

Training prepares aid workers for increasing dangers

NRC International

The work of independent aid workers in conflict areas has become much more dangerous in recent years. They can get you for the silliest things. ...

No End in Sight for the Displaced

Islam Online

We urgently need your help to continue delivering life saving aid . Helen Mould is a freelance writer. She is also a press officer and aid worker at Islamic ...

House Health Plan Outlines Higher Taxes on Rich

New York Times

People could buy coverage on their own from the new government plan, and those with modest incomes could get federal aid . Workers who have access to ...



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Today in History

The Associated Press

... killing 10 people, including the bride and groom; meanwhile, two French humanitarian aid workers kidnapped on July 18 were released. ...



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Aid workers kidnapped in Darfur, Afghanistan

Reuters AlertNet

Last Friday night, gunmen kidnapped two aid workers in Darfur - the two women, one Irish and one Ugandan, work for Goal. This is the third kidnapping ...

Israel to deport aid workers

The Press Association

Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire and former soldier Derek Graham will be deported by Israel for attempting to bring aid to Gaza. Mairead Maguire and Derek ...

Deported aid worker vows return to Gaza Edinburgh Evening News



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Philippine rebels free ICRC worker

Gulf Times

An Italian humanitarian aid worker for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was freed yesterday, 25 weeks after he was kidnapped by rebels in ...

Young refugees play in soccer tournament

Examiner.com

Organizers say the idea started with some Iraqi youth as they kicked around a soccer ball at a Baltimore park with an Ethiopian aid worker from the ...



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"Here's Your $833, Now Hush Up": Emerson Reconciles with Jilted ...

Bostonist

After being one of many schools implicated in a scandal wherein financial aid workers received gifts from loan companies, Emerson College has settled with ...

College to pay $780k to current, former students Boston Globe

Boston school settles NY AG student loan case Newsday



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Negotiations intensify to free kidnapped aid staff

Irish Independent

a kidnapped irish aid worker was still being held captive last night in spite of intensified negotiations to secure her release. ...

Costly gifts at G8 summit angers aid workers

Mirror.co.uk

Aid workers are furious at the extravagance of the summit being held in L'Aquila, where April's earthquake killed 300 and left thousands homeless. ...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi blasted over G8 gifts Scottish Daily Record



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2 aid workers abducted in E Afghanistan

Xinhua

KABUL, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Afghan Ministry for Public Health on Sunday said two staff of an international aid agency were abducted Saturday afternoon in ...

16 Afghan mine clearers, health workers abducted: govt AFP



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Foreign Troops Should Leave Somalia

Newsweek

Last week Al-Shabab gunmen overran a UN compound in the city of Baidoa, expelling the international agencies there, including aid workers . ...



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A development surge might work

DesMoinesRegister.com

Unfortunately, much of the country is now inaccessible to aid workers , who are seen as legitimate targets by the Taliban: nearly 40 humanitarians were ...

Mauritania, Plagued by Coups, to Vote in Presidential Election

Bloomberg

Al-Qaeda's North African branch also claimed responsibility for the assassination of American aid worker Christopher Leggett in Nouakchott on June 23, ...

Mauritania at a crossroads Aljazeera.net

Mauritanians See Chance to Break Cycle of Coups New York Times

Abdel Aziz wins Mauritania poll, rivals cry foul Reuters

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