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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's envoy to Syria told President Bashar al-Assad's government to stop the violence and help the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross send aid to strife-hit areas, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said...

AP - The United States is poised to announce a significant donation of food aid to North Korea this week, the first concrete accomplishment after months of behind-the-scenes diplomatic contacts between the two wartime enemies. An agreement by North Korea to suspend its controversial uranium...

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Rioters control Haiti's second largest city. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/11/17/watson.haiti.street.violence.cnn http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/11/16/watson.haiti.cholera.riots.cnn Cap Haitien, Haiti (CNN) -- Aid agencies are calling for an end to violence in northern...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/29/hancocks.indo.tsunami.worst1.cnn Monai, Indonesia -- Saluhu stares at the mass grave where his youngest son is buried. He struggles to comprehend the split second that changed his life forever. He relives the moment he started to run inland with...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/28/hancocks.indonesia.quake.tsunami.cnn Help trickled in Thursday, three days after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck off Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that has killed at least 311 people and left more than 400 missing. An assessment team from the...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/28/hancocks.indonesia.quake.tsunami.cnn Help trickled in Thursday, three days after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck off Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that has killed at least 311 people and left more than 400 missing. An assessment team from the...

One of two aid workers kidnapped from a Somali town near the Ethiopian border is doing well, according to a spokeswoman for their organization, Save the Children. The British aid worker is "well," said Anna Ford of Save the Children in Nairobi, Kenya. "He is being looked after and is in good...

Canada promises aid for Pakistan TORONTO, The Canadian government promised up to $33 million in aid Saturday for flood-stricken areas in Pakistan. John Baird, the Conservative leader in the House, said most of the money, $25 million ($24 million U.S), is earmarked for drinking water, food and...

U.N.: Kyrgyz refugee count at 400,000 BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, (UPI) -- A U.N. agency says the Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan have driven some 400,000 people from their homes, far more than earlier estimates. Quoting governmental and non-governmental organization figures, the U.N. High...

Gaza 'aid' convoy delays sailing JERUSALEM, (UPI) -- A flotilla of ships staffed by a political movement allegedly taking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip did not sail Friday as expected, organizers said. Greta Berlin of the Free Gaza Movement blamed the delay on a technical problem in one...

SAN'A, Yemen – Tens of thousands of Yemenis displaced by warfare between the government and Shiite rebels are stranded around the war zone with aid agencies unable to reach them because of the intensified fighting, U.N. officials and rights activists said. The humanitarian crisis has been...

Sudan allows 4 expelled aid groups back -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. humanitarian chief says the Sudanese government is allowing four aid organizations expelled from the country in March to return under slightly...

US Sudan envoy: Slim chance aid groups will return -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KHARTOUM, Sudan – Chances are slim that all the aid groups expelled by the Sudanese government will return, and alternative ways must immediately be found to...