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Roundup
http://tracerhand.wordpress.com
Roundup is a daily podcast about international news.
- Added on: Sep 14th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Tracer Hand
- Listed in: International Affairs News & Media
- Tags: politics news podcast war development international
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Alert
This blog is again going on a short hiatus. My apologies. There are some personal and some technical reasons for this. We will be back up and running in an improved — and audio-tastic! — manner quite soon....
Food aid halts in Somali struggle
The United Nations’ World Food Programme was suspended in Somalia yesterday after government troops kidnaped its leader. The kidnaping came just two days after the program had restarted for the first time since June. The WFP had been given perm...
Somali troops nab UN food chief
Uniformed and heavily armed Somali soldiers stormed the United Nations compound in Mogadishu today, arresting Idris Osman, the head of the UN World Food Programme for Somalia. The UN has been given no explanation for the incident and is halting food...
Iraq’s refugees out of options
Most Iraqi provinces have shut their borders to refugees trying to avoid violence in other parts of the country. Ten of Iraq’s 18 provinces — roughly analagous to counties — have either closed their borders to outsiders or deny them...
China backs off on Myanmar
One day after endorsing a unanimous United Nations security council resolution urging Myanmar to rein in its violent tactics and engage in genuine dialogue with political opposition, China’s foreign minister said Myanmar’s political issue...
Booze saves Italian’s life
The life of an Italian man visiting Australia was saved two months ago by a doctor who set up bottles of rum, vodka and whiskey on a drip-feed to counteract the effects of antifreeze the man had drunk. The recommended treatment for ingestion of ethyl...
