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United Nations declares today as World Toilet Day
- Health
- November 19, 2013, 10:52
About 2.5 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation, a problem that contributes to countess deaths from preventable diseases, according(...)

UN expresses fear some isolated islands have not been reached
- Asia-Pacific
- November 18, 2013, 09:28
The United Nations expressed fear today that some Philippine islands hit by a giant typhoon have not been reached 10 days after disaster struck and Pr(...)

Aid choppers mobbed as typhoon relief effort spreads
- Asia-Pacific
- November 17, 2013, 09:01
Mobbed by hungry villagers, US military helicopters dropped desperately needed aid into remote areas of the typhoon-ravaged central Philippines, as su(...)

Irish charity condemns global response to typhoon
- Asia-Pacific
- November 16, 2013, 15:37
The head of Irish aid agency Goal has branded the international response to the Typhoon Haiyan disaster in the Philippines as “ completely inadequate”(...)

Philippines survivors begin rebuilding shattered lives
- Asia-Pacific
- November 16, 2013, 12:27
Survivors began rebuilding homes destroyed by one of the world’s most powerful typhoons and emergency supplies flowed into ravaged Philippine islands,(...)

Albania rejects US request to host destruction of Syria weapons
- Middle East
- November 15, 2013, 18:25
Albania has rejected a US request to host the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, dealing a blow to a US-Russian accord to eliminate the nerve a(...)

Aid begins to move as Philippine typhoon death toll jumps
- Asia-Pacific
- November 15, 2013
The death toll from a powerful typhoon doubled overnight in one Philippine city alone, reaching 4,000, as helicopters from a US aircraft carrier and o(...)

US aircraft carrier boosts relief efforts in Philippines
- Asia-Pacific
- November 14, 2013
A US aircraft carrier “strike group” started unloading food and water to the typhoon-ravaged central Philippines today, as president Benigno Aquino fa(...)

UN appeals for €300 million in aid for Philippines
- Asia-Pacific
- November 14, 2013, 01:01
Peter Murtagh in Cebu, the Philippines The United Nations wants to step up significantly its relief operation in the Philippines and has appealed f(...)

Petition filed to UN on travelling for abortion
- Politics
- November 14, 2013, 01:00
Pregnant women, who receive a diagnosis of a fatal foetal abnormality and are forced to leave Ireland for terminations, suffer human rights violations(...)