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Maoists release four kidnapped Indian policemen

RAIPUR, India - Maoist rebels in central India have released four policemen kidnapped 12 days ago in the insurgent stronghold of Chhattisgarh state, officials said on Friday.

The four officers, who were captured on September 19 in a forest about 525 kilometres (325 miles) south of state capital Raipur, have returned to a station in Dantewada district, local police official S.R.P. Kalluri told AFP.

"All the four police personnel were released on Thursday night," Kalluri said.

The four policemen told reporters that

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India: Outbreak: Several dead and hundreds taken ill in Orissa's tribal villages

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ActionAid
ActionAid is working with Panchu and Niyamgiri Surakhya Samiti in collaboration with Zilla Swasthya Samiti (District Health Council) and doctors in different PHCs and CHCs in different locations.

Even as media expresses shock and agencies respond to the mounting death toll in the tribal villages reeling under diarrhea and cholera outbreak, ActionAid and its partners are reaching out to close to 60 affected villages in western Orissa.

The toll is rising. A local daily has put out a figure of 150 dead, whereas the government agencies peg it at

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Guinea + 6 others
CrisisWatch N°86, 01 Oct 2010

Seven actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in September 2010, according to the latest issue of the International Crisis Group's monthly bulletin CrisisWatch, released today.

Guinea saw increased political and ethnic divisions, exacerbated by controversies related to the presidential elections. Two days of violent clashes in the capital between rival supporters of the two presidential candidates, Alpha Conde and Cellou Diallo, left one person dead and dozens injured. Continued delays in the timing of the run-off

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India: Floods DREF operation no. MDRIN006

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IFRC
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) is a source of un-earmarked money created by the Federation in 1985 to ensure that immediate financial support is available for Red Cross and Red Crescent emergency response. The DREF is a vital part of the International Federation's disaster response system and increases the ability of National Societies to respond to disasters.

CHF 358,313 (USD364,547 or EUR 270,543) has been allocated from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red

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Kyrgyzstan + 12 others
Update on UNHCR's operations in Asia and the Pacific - 2010

Regional update - Asia and the Pacific

Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme

Sixty-first session

Geneva, 4-8 October 2010

30 September 2010

This update presents some examples of challenges, progress and developments in the region since the last strategic overview presented to the 47th meeting of the Standing Committee in March 2010. A more comprehensive report will be provided in the forthcoming Global Appeal 2011 Update.

A. Major challenges and new developments

Following the displacement of an estimated

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Armenia + 11 others
'We Must Move Forward!' Assembly President Says, Challenging Member States to Be Brave Enough to Reject Static Positions, Make United Nations Better

GA/11006

Sixty-fifth General Assembly
Plenary
23rd & 24th Meetings (AM & PM)

Sixty-Fifth Session of General Debate Ends with Delegations Warning Against Yielding United Nations Vital Decision-Making Functions to Other Forums

The question of the United Nations being able to effectively tackle entrenched global ills - from poverty and terrorism to conflict prevention and pandemic disease - hinged on whether the 192-member body would be brave enough to move beyond deadlock and oft-repeated positions of principle to truly defend its role as the premier centre for global

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Armenia + 12 others
À l'issue du débat général, le Président de l'Assemblée demande l'adaptation de l'ONU aux réalités actuelles pour renforcer son rôle dans la gouvernance mondiale

AG/11006

Assemblée générale

Soixante-cinquième session

23e et 24e séances plénières - matin et après-midi

Le Président de l'Assemblée, Joseph Deiss de la Suisse, s'est exprimé aujourd'hui à l'issue du débat général pour lancer un appel à l'adaptation de l'ONU aux réalités actuelles pour qu'elle puisse assumer pleinement son statut de « pièce maitresse du système de gouvernance mondiale ».

Reconnaissant la « réalité incontournable » du G-20, M. Deiss a estimé qu'une amélioration des mécanismes d'information, de consultation et de coopération entre l'ONU et les autres acteurs de

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Curfew, strike hits schools in Indian Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India - A curfew and a separatist strike in Indian Kashmir kept most children home on Tuesday, just days after the authorities ordered the reopening of schools.

The region has been hit by protests since June 11, when a 17-year old student was killed by a police teargas shell. Since then security forces have been accused of killing a total of 107 people, mostly teenagers and students.

The Kashmir government Sunday ordered education institutions to re-open, despite a continuing curfew and a two-day strike called by hardline separatist Syed Ali Geelani, who is spearheading

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India + 2 others
India, Tajikistan, Pakistan: Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Preparedness (PMP)

Prevention, Mitigation, and Preparedness (PMP) is the channel through which FOCUS works to decrease a community's vulnerability to natural disasters such as landslides, floods, mudslides, epidemics, and earthquakes, catastrophic rain or snow, and prepares them to respond rapidly and effectively to natural disasters. In this way, the initiative also seeks to ensure that communities are empowered in the learning process. There are a variety of activities in each category, including: building community awareness, the provision of communications equipment
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Afghanistan + 18 others
Ministers Urge Serious Steps to End Long-Standing Conflicts, Support for Peace Processes, as General Assembly's Annual Debate Continues

GA/11005

Sixty-fifth General Assembly
Plenary
21st & 22nd Meetings (AM & PM)

Conflict resolution and peacebuilding in places as diverse as the Middle East, Kashmir, Cyprus and the Balkans emerged as major themes as the General Assembly continued its annual general debate today, alongside calls for reforms to make the Security Council more representative of the United Nations membership, 65 years after the founding of the Organization.

Speaking in the context of renewed direct peace talks between the Israeli and Palestinian leadership, and the end

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Pakistan + 2 others
Pakistan, India, USA, Portugal: Disaster Response: Recent Case Studies in Response

Disaster Response: Recent Case Studies in Response

Since 1994, FOCUS has provided a full spectrum of emergency response activities from first -response to extended relief and recovery support. When FOCUS responds to a disaster, it is able to call upon a pre-positioned pool of volunteers from within the Ismaili Muslim community in the country of the intervention. Harnessing local manpower for packaging, delivering and distributing humanitarian relief provides integral support to staff on the ground and ensures that those in direct

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India: Emergency relief to the flood-affected people of West Bengal

Thousands of people have been affected by floods which hit West Bengal two weeks ago. ACTED, already present in the area, has been providing immediate relief support to the affected communities, starting with food distributions. 965 families have thus received food rations with the support of the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department.

The highest tide since Cyclone Aila occurred on the morning of the 10th of September and resulted in a breach of approximately 30 meters of embankment in Katharbari Chak Village, in West Bengal, India.

As a result, saline water completely

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Wounds tell of violence in Indian Kashmir

By Ben Sheppard (AFP)

SRINAGAR, India - The wards of the Bone and Joint Hospital in Srinagar provide ample evidence that pro-independence demonstrations in Indian Kashmir have met with a tough response.

At least seven patients tell of how they were shot by police or paramilitary troops at violent demonstrations that have erupted across the Himalayan region over the past three months.

Aged between 15 and 35, they all have bullet wounds below the waist. They lie with their raised legs wrapped in dressings and pierced with metal rods to help bones heal properly.

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Separatist leader rejects India's Kashmir plan

Hardline separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, dismisses India's Kashmir plan to ease security measures as an effort 'to hoodwink the international community.'

By Kristen Chick, Correspondent / September 26, 2010

A hard-line separatist leader in Indian Kashmir on Sunday rejected an Indian government proposal aimed at ending the violent protests that have swept through the region since June.

More moderate Kashmiri leaders have not yet announced their stance on the Indian government's proposal to release jailed protesters, offer financial compensation to the families of those

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India to review Kashmir deployment to tackle unrest

25 Sep 2010 17:55:00 GMT

* India considers scaling back security

* Dialogue to begin with cross-section of Kashmiris

* Protest leader dismisses plan, says protests to go on

By Krittivas Mukherjee

NEW DELHI, Sept 25 (Reuters) - India said on Saturday it would consider scaling back security in the disputed Kashmir region, aiming to calm months of protests against Indian rule in which over 100 people have been killed, most of them by police.

Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said the government would soon announce a team to begin a dialogue with

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India: violence in Kashmir turns life upside down for Red Cross ambulance driver

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ICRC
Since 11 June, violence across the Kashmir Valley has claimed hundreds of casualties. Strikes, demonstrations and continuous curfews disrupt daily life. Irshad Ahmed, an ambulance driver for the Jammu and Kashmir State Branch of the Indian Red Cross, explains how his job has changed.

Repeated clashes pitting protesters against police and other security forces have led to a significant rise in demand for urgent medical care, while simultaneously making the movement of emergency vehicles more difficult. Nevertheless, ambulance drivers like Irshad Ahmed

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India: Southwest monsoon-2010 - Daily flood situation report 24 Sep 2010

SITREP NO-116/2010
1700 hours

No. 32-20/2010-NDM-I
Ministry of Home Affairs
(Disaster Management Division)

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS AS ON 24.09.2010

Rainfall/Flood situation in the country

- Moderate to heavy rainfall with isolated very heavy falls have been reported in some parts of Assam, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Goa, Kerala, Karnataka, Orissa, Tripura, and West Bengal.

Major features of weather forecast (IMD)

- Widespread rainfall would occur over south Konkan & Goa, Coastal Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep.

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Millions affected by the floods in India

NEW DELHI, INDIA, 23 September 2010 - UNICEF and its partners are reaching out to millions of people in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Uttarakhand as flooding continues to drive people from their homes.

Close to 1.7 million people in the Indian state of western Uttar Pradesh have been affected due to heavy rainfall and floods in the major rivers of the state. In Bihar, the breach of support embankments of river Gandhak has resulted in the flooding of thirty-five villages in Gopalganj and Siwan districts. In Uttarakhand, close to half