Humanitarian assistance

Humanitarian assistance

• Budget fight creating diplomatic headaches for US

  From Syria to Somalia and across the Mideast down to Mali, looming U.S. budget cuts are creating potentially tough choices for American diplomacy. 

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  Gulf leads UN appeal for major boost in Syrian aid

  An emergency U.N. appeal to raise $1.5 billion in humanitarian aid for Syria exceeded its goal Wednesday at a conference with dire predictions of ... 

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  Syrian activists say 65 bodies found in Aleppo

  The bodies of at least 65 people, some with hands tied behind their backs, were found in Syria's northern city of Aleppo Tuesday as the government and ... 

• Obama authorizes $155 million more in aid to Syria

  President Barack Obama authorized an additional $155 million in humanitarian aid for the Syrian people Tuesday, as his administration grapples for a ... 

• Groups seek $716m for Yemen humanitarian crisis

  Yemen's government and international donors must allocate over $700 million to help ease a deepening humanitarian crisis that includes widespread ... 

• UN appeals for $131 million aid for Zimbabwe

  The United Nations says it needs $131 million in humanitarian assistance to meet food, water and emergency needs in Zimbabwe. The U.N. 

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  UN says it can't feed 1 million hungry Syrians

  The World Food Program said Tuesday it is unable to help an estimated 1 million Syrians who are going hungry, blaming a lack of security in the ... 

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  Zimbabweans brace for bleak holidays

  Zimbabweans are facing bleak holidays this year amid rising poverty, food and cash shortages and political uncertainty, with some describing it as the ... 

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  SKorea's president-elect faces NKorea uncertainty

  Park Geun-hye promises to reach out to North Korea with more humanitarian aid and deeper engagement after she moves into South Korea's presidential ... 

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  Artisans are thriving again in post-quake Haiti

  The sharp tang of varnish hangs in the air as a dozen women and a few men cut and scrape logs into bowls destined for U.S. department stores. In other ...