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Source: IRIN Violet Tinah, 40, a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is living with HIV and was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, but her biggest problem today is not…

Source: IRIN Rose Nakhayetse is lucky to be alive, but her ordeal is far from over. Having narrowly escaped last weeks deadly landslides in eastern Uganda, she and thousands of others are facing…

Does the slogan “united opposition” imply cooperation with everyone who opposes President Mikheil Saakashvili or should unity be based as well on some sort of positive principles? Many in the…

Source: IRIN Competing pressures in Cambodias Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal could work against the victims it is supposed to represent, human rights groups warn.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of Egypts most prestigious seat of Islamic learning al-Azhar, died of a heart attack on Wednesday on a visit to Saudi Arabia, religious…

Remember this commercial for Dannon yogurt from the 1970s? It linked the longevity of Georgians to all the yogurt they eat. (Rumor has it that this was the first American commercial ever filmed in…

Former Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli, who is currently in opposition to President Mikheil Saakashvili, has left Tbilisi for a three-day trip to Moscow, RFE/RLs Georgian and Russian…

An Armenian court has reduced the sentence of a jailed opposition activist but refused to acquit him of charges related to postelection violence, RFE/RLs Armenian Service reports.

Indonesias President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has confirmed that a top Southeast Asian militant suspected of helping plan the 2002 Bali bombings has been shot dead by police in a raid near Jakarta.

U.S. General David Petraeus has arrived in Kyrgyzstan, a day after the United States said it would build an antiterrorism training center for the former Soviet republic in Central Asia.

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Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has arrived in Afghanistan for talks with President Hamid Karzai.

ABUJA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Nigerians gathered in the capital Abuja on Wednesday for a march to the presidency to demand the appearance of ailing leader Umaru YarAdua, two weeks after he returned…

Leaders of Moldovas 30,000-strong Romany community have asked a former top official to apologize for a racist remark, RFE/RLs Moldovan Service reports.

Police in Pakistan say at least five people have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on an office of a Western aid agency in northwest Pakistan.