"Floods wash away entire villages"

Floods wash away entire villages, aid agencies scramble to reach victims
Heavy floods have hit a string of villages in southern Sierra Leone, wiping away scores of houses, trapping villagers and leaving vast areas inaccessible to humanitarian teams scrambling to assess the damage, aid officials said on Friday.

Blair lends support to Met chief
Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair has the prime minister's full backing, Downing Street has said.

Cuba and Panama restore relations
Cuba and Panama have restored diplomatic ties a year after they were broken off when Panama's former president pardoned four Cuban exiles.

Hijacked UN Food Ship Still Held Off Somali Coast Despite Pact for Its Release
Hijackers off the Somali coast are still holding a ship chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), its 10-member crew, and 850 tons of rice for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami, more than seven weeks after seizing them, despite an agreement earlier this month for their release, the agency said today.

British officials ask ICC to consider banning Zimbabwe: report
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and another senior official asked the International Cricket Council to consider banning Zimbabwe from the sport as punishment for increasing human rights abuses, a British newspaper reported on Sunday.

South Africa's Mbeki meets Ivorian rebels
South African President Thabo Mbeki met Ivory Coast rebels on Saturday in the latest bid to nudge them to keep a fragile peace process on track in the West African country ahead of an October general election.

Everything Gets Worse With Coca-Cola
In the end it was the 'generosity' of Coca-Cola in distributing cadmium-laden waste sludge as 'free fertilizer' to the tribal aborigines who live near the beverage giant's bottling plant in this remote Kerala village that proved to be its undoing.

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