U.N. fears for children as Pakistan floods threaten town KARACHI (Reuters) - Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began, as the United Nations warned that tens of thousands of children risked death from malnutrition.

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Reding criticises France, Italy over Roma treatment . EU Commissioner Viviane Reding, responsible for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, yesterday (25 August) criticised the French authorities for seeking solutions to immigration problems and tackling the Roma issue outside of an EU context. She also indirectly condemned Italy for its ‘discriminatory’ and ‘inflammatory’ rhetoric.

Ireland Leads Europe in ‘Courageous’ Decisions, Canada’s Flaherty Says.

August 28, 2010 - With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone "targeted killing" program, the Obama administration is steadily escalating the role played by both the covert agency and secretive US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated. "The White House, in an effort to turn up the heat against Al Qaida’s branch in Yemen, is considering adding the CIA’s armed Predator drones to the fight," reported the Associated Press on Thursday, citing senior Washington officials. "The US military’s Special Operation Forces and the CIA have been positioning surveillance equipment, drones and personnel in Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia" in preparation for the stepped-up killing spree, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday…

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