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UK MoDs C-130 aircraft to aid search for four missing British sailors
2014-05-22 01:00:00| Ship Technology
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has sent its C-130 Hercules aircraft to join the US-led team in the search for four British sailors who went missing after their yacht, Cheeki Rafiki, capsized in the mid-Atlantic Ocean.
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U.N. warns of South Sudan famine as donors pledge more aid
2014-05-20 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than a third of South Sudan's population, or 4 million people, will be on the brink of starvation by the end of 2014 as fighting rages in the world's newest country, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. "We are losing time. Farmers should be planting their crops right now," United Nations' aid chief Valerie Amos told a donors' conference in Oslo. "If they don't, and if livestock herders are not able to migrate to grazing areas, people will run out of food." Clashes between rebels and government...
Isakson makes case for foreign aid at third annual Atlanta Summit
2014-05-20 14:10:19| Trucking - Topix.net
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson made a passionate case for American involvement in foreign affairs - particularly in Africa - at the opening of Monday's third annual Atlanta Summit: "Health in Africa - the Unfinished Agenda."
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Isakson makes case for foreign aid at third annual Atlanta Summit
2014-05-19 21:31:03| Air Courier - Topix.net
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson made a passionate case for American involvement in foreign affairs - particularly in Africa - at the opening of Monday's third annual Atlanta Summit: "Health in Africa - the Unfinished Agenda."
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Russia, EU join aid effort in wake of Balkan floods
2014-05-18 13:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Russian cargo planes and rescue teams from around Europe on Sunday joined volunteer efforts to provide aid across large swathes of Serbia and Bosnia and parts of eastern Croatia, where at least 24 people have died in the worst floods in over a century. These are the kind of waters not seen in 1,000 years, let alone 100, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told a televised cabinet session Sunday. Two Russian Ilyushin-26 cargo planes landed in Serbia carrying food, generators and rescue...
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