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    National Guard deploys as curfew lifted in violence-hit Missouri town

    Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:15 AM

    USA-MISSOURI/SHOOTING (UPDATE 8, TV, PIX):UPDATE 8-National Guard deploys as curfew lifted in violence-hit Missouri town

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    Humanitarians are paying the price for political inaction

    Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:33 AM

    UK to host a national memorial for humanitarian aid workers for the first time, but governments should do more

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    U.S. bars all American airlines from flying over Syria

    Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:55 AM

    SYRIA-CRISIS/USA-AIRLINES (UPDATE 1):UPDATE 1-U.S. bars all American airlines from flying over Syria

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    Tales From WFP Humanitarian Heroes In South Sudan (Staff Interviews)

    Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:25 PM

    The World Food Programme (WFP) and partners have been working all-out for months to try to prevent a hunger catastrophe in South Sudan, overcoming enormous obstacles to bring food and other assistance to people in desperate need.  Part of WFP's response includes deploying emergency mobile teams to reach vulnerable people who have been isolated by conflict in some of the most food-insecure areasof the country.  The teams set up distribution sites from scratch, managing air-drop zones and sleeping in tents - and facing challenges that range in size from tiny scorpions to big guns.  Here are a few stories from WFP staff members who have been part of these mobile emergency response teams.

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    What's it like to work in a war zone? Aid workers explain

    Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:33 AM

    Aid workers describe life in a war zone, losing cherished colleagues and witnessing the worst kind of human suffering

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    TRF-Attacks on aid workers worldwide hit worst levels on record

    Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:43 AM

    FOUNDATION-AID-ATTACKS:TRF-Attacks on aid workers worldwide hit worst levels on record

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    Attacks on aid workers worldwide hit worst levels on record

    Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:51 PM

    155 aid workers were killed, 171 wounded and 134 kidnapped in 2013 - 66 percent more than in 2012

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    Nigeria Kidnapping, Malala Shooting Rouses Teens

    Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:22 AM

    The kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria and the shooting of Malala Yousafzai have spurred some U.S. teens to activism and generosity. Others find the news too terrible and hard to solve.

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    Can Land Rights and Education Save an Ancient Indian Tribe?

    Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:05 PM

    By Manipadma JenaMALKANGIRI, India, Aug 19 2014 (IPS) - Scattered across 31 remote hilltop villages on a mountain range that towers 1,500 to 4,000 feet above sea level, in the Malkangiri district of India's eastern Odisha state, the Upper Bonda people are considered one of this country's most ancient tribes, having barely altered their lifestyle in over a thousand years. Resistant to contact with […]

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    UNHCR in major air, land and sea humanitarian aid push into northern Iraq

    Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:21 PM

    Iraq's humanitarian challenges are immense. Most of the displaced still live in schools, mosques, churches, unfinished buildings and elsewhere.

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