Why India badly needs an AIDS vaccine A comprehensive approach to new age technologies, treatment, care and support strategy is the best way to counter the increasing threat of AIDS.
A bloody battle for power In the past year, the Thailand Burma Border Consortium that works in the refugee camps estimates troops destroyed 232 villages in the country's east and drove 82,000 from their homes.
Old must give way to new A group of British and Russian experts have warned that Moscow's unique and diverse architectural heritage is under "full-scale attack" and in serious danger of disappearing altogether.
United Nations Humanitarian co-odinator, John Holmes, visits the Labworomor Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp, in Namukora sub-county, northern Uganda's Kitgum District, on Tuesday. Holmes was in nothern Uganda, which has suffered almost two decades of human rights abuses at the hands on the infamous Lords Resistance Army, following a visit to Somalia's embattled capital Mogadishu, where he said the UN would probe human rights violations during some of Somalia's worst fighting recently. AFP
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