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Headlines in Review
Week ending April 18, 2008      by The World & I Online

Gaza violence up during Carter visit 
Tel Aviv, April 17 -- Renewed battles between Israel and Palestinians yesterday overshadowed the peace mission of former President Jimmy Carter, who extended his hand to one of Israel's most hawkish politicians. The fighting in the Gaza Strip intensified as the Palestinians counted at least 20 d...

Kurdish leaders reach oil-law deal with Baghdad 
Washington, April 17 -- Iraq's central government and the Kurdish region have reached a deal on an oil law, including a method for weighing the validity of the oil deals the Kurds have signed with foreign firms, the top government spokesman said yesterday. Ali al-Dabbagh said an agreement also ha...

Emergency measures to contain soaring food prices and drought in Djibouti 
Nairobi, April 17, -- Djibouti is to implement emergency measures to ensure food security amid soaring prices and persistent drought that have particularly hurt the poor across the Horn of Africa country, the government said. The strategies include continued price controls, diversification of fo...

North Korea facing a famine 
Bangkok, April 18 -- North Korea's desperate need to feed its citizens has prompted a United Nations agency to warn of a ''humanitarian crisis'' looming up in the months ahead. The price of basic food items in Pyongyang, the country's capital, offers a stark picture of the reality average worker...

Cautious Calm Settles Over War-Scarred Ituri Region of Democratic Republic of Congo 
Bogoro, April 17 -- Wading through the chest-high grass outside of this hamlet in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Mathieu Nyakufa gestures to the bones -- still bleaching in the sun -- of those who have been lost to the country's wars. "I was living just down here in the valley," the...

Activists Call for Urgent Land Reform in Latin America 
Brasilia, April 17 -- An urgent call to speed up the land reform process in Latin America was issued Thursday by rural activists at the 30th FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean, who also sharply criticised agribusiness interests and large estates in the region. "We are ca...

India looks to work with Nepal's once-hated Maoist rebels 
New Delhi, April 18 -- Fears of frosty India-Nepal ties following the electoral victory of Maoists may have been dispelled with the Indian government acknowledging the emergence of the communist-led democratic government in Nepal and pledging to work with the former rebels, experts say. "The app...

Analysts fear Al-Qaida may attack Turkey 
Berlin, April 18, -- Experts are worried that Turkey will soon be hit by an al-Qaida-orchestrated terror attack. In November 2003 Istanbul was hit by a terror attack that targeted two synagogues, a British bank and the British consulate, killing more than 50 people and injuring 700 others. T...

Nutrition gains at risk in Philippines 
Manila, April 18 -- In the Philippines, one out of four children is considered underweight or stunted - telling signs of nutritional problems. But this figure, which translates into four million children under 10 being undernourished, is considered an improvement, according to the country's Food and...

Optimism prevails in Uganda, despite setback in peace talks 
Kampala, April 18 -- Josephine Akello had hoped the peace talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) would finally end with rebel leader Joseph Kony signing a peace accord on 10 April. Then she heard that the elusive Kony had failed to show up at a much-publicised s...

N. Korea's nuclear past stays sealed 
Washington, April 18 -- The Bush administration made another concession to North Korea yesterday by agreeing to keep secret part of a required declaration of the country's nuclear programs, saving Pyongyang a public embarrassment from its proliferation activities. The decision is likely to figur...


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