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New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): United State Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard C Holbrooke has expressed regret over the misunderstanding caused by his ”not-Indian” comment on the February 26 Kabul terror attack in which at least six Indians were killed and around 10 injured.
Holbrooke said, ” I did not say Indians were not [...]

London, Sep 12 (ANI): The United Nations has strongly warned Sri Lanka that the world body cannot continue funding indefinitely the huge refugee camps in the north of the country, and asked the authorities to allow the hundreds of Tamil civilians to leave.

The senior UN official in the country hardened their stand when they said [...]

Islamabad, Aug 18(ANI): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that at least 70,000 to 80,000 people have been affected in Swabi by the floods and about 450 houses have been destroyed apart from [...]

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Nevada (US), July 10 (ANI): Hindus have urged Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie to undertake the cause of apartheid of 15-million Roma people of Europe.

Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman, in a statement in Nevada today, said that Jolie, world’s most powerful celebrity, would be very effective in focusing public [...]

New Delhi, June 28 (ANI): Remembering the ebb and flow of late King of Pop Michael Jackson’s career, the critics are busy jotting down facts that made the singer a legend.

And, now, a report shedding light on such facts reveals that Jackson’s Billie Jean made him the first black artist whose video to have [...]

Washington, May 27 (ANI): Responding to the United Nations call for a ‘humanitarian pause’ in the Swat offensive, the Pakistan Army has said such a halt in the offensive is not possible at present, as it would provide a breather to extremists.

“Lifting the curfew would mean letting the operational situation slip out of hand,” ISPR [...]

London, May 21 (ANI): Nine British women of Asian origin have been declared winners of the Asian Women of Achievement Awards for the year 2009.

Businesswoman Vin Murria, who set up a foundation to support the education of children in India and was described by the judges as a [...]

Visakhapatnam, May 19 (ANI): Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta on Tuesday commissioned Indian Navy’s fifth Landing Ship Tank (Large) ‘Airavat’ here.

On the occasion, Mehta said the Airavat would augment the operational capabilities and reach of the Eastern Naval Command, [...]

Colombo – Tamil rebels Tuesday accused Sri Lankan government troops of breaking assurances the army would refrain from using heavy weaponry while an estimated 50,000 civilians remain trapped in the last area held by the rebels.
Both the military and Tamil rebels confirmed that fighting was continuing around the Mullaivikkal area, 390 kilometres north of [...]

Colombo – UN Humanitarian Affairs chief Sir John Holmes arrived in Sri Lanka to assess the needs of tens of thousands of civilians who fled rebel-held areas or remain trapped in the fighting, officials said Sunday.
Holmes planned to visit refugee camps in Vavuniya, 254 kilometres north of the capital, populated by more than 150,000 [...]

New Delhi, April 30 (ANI): The United Nations on Thursday termed the conditions in camps for displaced Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka as “far from satisfactory” while stating that its top priority was to get an estimated 50,000 civilians still trapped in [...]

Wellington, April 16 (Xinhua) The European Union (EU) said Thursday that developments in Fiji were unacceptable and called on the interim Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama to honour the commitments his government pledged to the international community.
EU Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Louis Michel said he was ‘particularly disappointed’ because the interim government had agreed to [...]

Wellington – New Zealand’s Law Society Thursday urged lawyers and judges not to accept appointments as judges from Fiji’s military regime.
All of Fiji’s judges were sacked last week after three Australian judges sitting as the Court of Appeal ruled that the military government of Voreqe Bainimarama, who seized power in a coup in December [...]

T V Sriram Colombo, (PTI) Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today assured the UN’s humanitarian chief of all efforts to get the conflict-hit Tamil civilians in the north rehabilitated to safe areas, as the latter expressed concern over the plight of thousands of people trapped in war zone. Rajapaksa told the visiting UN Under-Secretary [...]

Colombo – Civilians caught in fighting between government forces and Tamil rebels in northern Sri Lanka were fleeing further into rebel-held areas on Friday, as President Mahinda Rajapaksa assured the UN on the safety of civilians.
Dr T Sathyamoorthy, based in a makeshift hospital in the conflict zone, who was speaking by telephone, said that civilians, [...]

Ankara – The number of Israeli tourists visiting Turkey has fallen drastically in the wake of Turkey’s harsh reactions to Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip, the Dogan news agency reported on Friday.
Around 3,000 Israeli tourists flew into the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya in January, a fall of almost 60 per cent compared [...]

Colombo – International aid officials expressed concern Monday about artillery bombardments that hit a hospital in a Tamil rebel-controlled area in northern Sri Lanka and killed at least eight people.
UNICEF spokesman James Elder said the organization confirmed that the hospital in Pudukudirippu, 385 kilometres north-east of Colombo, had been shelled twice Sunday night.
He said [...]

Brussels – European Union foreign ministers were Wednesday holding dinner-time talks in Brussels with their Israeli counterpart, Tzipi Livni, in a bid to convince her to re-open the Gaza crossings and revive the stalled Middle East peace process.
“We hope we can find an agreement that will make it possible for supplies to get into [...]

Gaza City – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday he was “deeply grieved” at the scenes he witnessed in Gaza following a three-week Israeli offensive, adding they were “heartbreaking.”
He added he was “appalled” also at the damage done to the world body’s Gaza City headquarters.
“I’m just appalled. I’m not able to describe how I am [...]