A series of powerful earthquakes killed at least four people and injured dozens in remote eastern Indonesia Sunday and briefly triggered fears of another tsunami in a country still recovering from 2004's deadly waves.
0It was late afternoon and the young mother was hiding in the kitchen of her banana-thatch shack, lighting a cooking fire she hoped her neighbors would not see — she gets food aid while they must scrounge to eat.
0Nearly 40 percent of the population in North Korea will need food aid next year because of the severe shortages of fertilizer and fuel, U.N. food agencies said Monday.
0The U.N. Children’s Fund will distribute supplies to nearly 100,000 people in Eastern Congo over the next six days – the largest distribution of aid since fighting engulfed the area a month ago.
1Believers in Zimbabwe are waiting for God to intervene as life-threatening difficulties continue to face the people of the nation.
1Aid agencies are struggling to reach the quarter million people displaced by the recent flare up between rebels and government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
0Officials say the death toll from the earthquake that devastated an impoverished valley in southwestern Pakistan has risen to 215.
0A strong earthquake struck before dawn Wednesday in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 150 people, injuring scores more and leaving an estimated 15,000 homeless, officials said.
0Leaders at the World Evangelical Alliance General Assembly have commissioned Joel Edwards as the new international director of the faith-based Micah Challenge.
0U.S. humanitarian agency USAID has shipped more than 55,000 pounds of food to feed nearly 900,000 North Koreans suffering from severe food shortages.
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