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Nigeria: American Admits Bribing Officials in Natural Gas Deal
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has made his earlier endorsement of the "surge" strategy in Iraq a prominent feature of his campaign, but he might one day be embarrassed by it.

IRAQ-JORDAN: Government planes to facilitate repatriation (AlertNet)
Source: irinIraqi officials plan to hire private airplanes to bring home migrants from Jordan, where they have been living since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Security in Iraq remains in dispute, with officials in Baghdad insisting it is safe to return as they make arrangements to welcome hundreds of people from neighbouring countries. But UN organisations remain sceptical.

IRAQ-JORDAN: Government planes to facilitate repatriation
AMMAN, 4 September 2008 - Iraqi officials plan to hire private airplanes to bring home migrants from Jordan, where they have been living since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

IRAQ-JORDAN: Government planes to facilitate repatriation (irin)
AMMAN, 4 September 2008 (irin) - Iraqi officials plan to hire private airplanes to bring home migrants from Jordan, where they have been living since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Security in Iraq remains in dispute, with officials in Baghdad insisting it is safe to return as they make arrangements to welcome hundreds of people from neighbouring countries. But UN organisations remain ...

Delhi : Snake on a plane
Violence by settlers perpetrated against Palestinians has been on the rise in recent weeks in Hebron and the surrounding areas, residents and international observers said.

middle east: Palestinian children face hurdles with school, says UN (Adnkronos)
middle east: Palestinian children face hurdles with school, says UN(AKI) - Source irin - As one million Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip prepare to return to school next week, United Nations agencies and the Palestinian Ministry of Education have been stressing the problems schoolchildren face in the occupied Palestinian territory. "We should celebrate - in spite ...

SWAZILAND: "We are dying, they are flying!" (AlertNet)
Source: irinSeveral hundred Swazis, including people living with HIV, marched on 21 August to highlight the need for government to prioritise funding to alleviate the humanitarian crises in the country.

Bush backs McCain
Venezuela Calls Visit of U.S. Drug Czar 'Useless' The Foreign Ministry rejected the "animosity and hatred" of John P. Walters and reaffirmed its accusations against the D.E.A., calling it "a body that operated ...

Taliban holding Chinese engineers hostage
It is unlikely that former prime ministers Dominique de Villepin or Alain Juppe, or anyone else on the commission's list of French genocide suspects, will be extradited to Rwanda.

Hope among the rubble (The Australian)
AS the Taliban gathers strength, Afghanistan is entering a crucial stage in its reconstruction.

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Inflation ruins Ramadan
Upon the release of the much anticipated draft Peoples' Charter on Aug. 5, Bainimarama warned that all of its recommendations must be implemented before any general election was possible.

News Categories (Yemen Observer)
The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MAI) has warned farmers about a fungus known as "maize smut" and asked them to use seeds that do not contain the fungus. The warning comes as the maize cultivation season gets under way.

From zero to heroine
Innovative Millennium Villages Project in Bonsaaso, a cluster of poor and remote settlements in Ghana's Ashanti Region, focuses on achieving Millennium goals.

Palestinian refugees still homeless sixty years on (middle east Online)
Israeli radical attempts target silencing plight of Palestinian refugees by undermining UNRWA.

'We are dying, they are flying'
Several hundred Swazis, including people with HIV, marched on August 21 to highlight the need to prioritise funding to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the country.

Breastfeeding campaign urgently needed in Yemen (middle east Online)
UNICEF says decline in breastfeeding likely to lead to higher rates of malnutrition, death among under-fives.

Catholic campuses in Kerala shut in protest against Orissa violence
Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo Bay. Shocking arrests and mysterious disappearances. Extraordinary renditions.

Cheadle in the driver's seat with new film
Self-described as "the final war," the protest is the latest effort by the People's Alliance for Democracy to force the government, led by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, from office.