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India
Indian flood victims riot over meager food supply
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
At least one person was killed Wednesday (August 27) as fighting broke out over insufficient supplies in evacuation centers in India's northern state of Bihar, where some 2.5 million people have been affected by a week of intense flooding. The person was killed in Madhepura, one of three districts that have been inundated since the Kosi River burst its banks in Nepal, where it is called the Saptakoshi, and changed course, now affecting an area that has not seen monsoon flooding since 1952.
Separatists kill four in India's Jammu and Kashmir as protests continue
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
Insurgents believed to have crossed into the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) from neighboring Pakistan killed at least four people Wednesday (August 27) and took six hostages during a battle with Indian security forces. According to the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), J&K police said three militants crossed into J&K Tuesday (August 26) morning and were intercepted by authorities at a check post in Chinore, an area about 12.4 miles (20 km) from the center of Jammu, the major city in the southern part of J&K.
Death toll from sectarian violence rises to 11 in India's eastern Orissa state
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
At least 11 people have been killed so far in an outbreak of sectarian violence in eastern India, the Associated Press and Reuters news agency reported Wednesday (August 27). According to Reuters, three bodies were found overnight in eastern Orissa state's rural Kandhamal district, where violence broke out on Monday (August 25), when Hindu hardliners set on fire a Christian orphanage, killing a woman and seriously injuring a priest.
Philippines
362,000 now displaced by Philippines rebel conflict
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
The number of people who have been displaced by clashes between Muslim rebels and the military on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao rose to more than 362,000 Wednesday (August 27), as the country's human rights body urged both sides to stop fighting. According to the National Disaster Coordinating Council, 362,475 people have now fled their homes, with half of them staying in 132 crowded evacuation centers.
Tropical depression brings heavy rain to Philippines
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
Tropical Cyclone 14W took an abrupt and unexpected right turn to the north just as it was approaching the northeastern tip of Luzon island in the Philippines late Wednesday (August 27) and is now moving toward the southern tip of Taiwan, according to the Hawaii-based Pacific Disaster Center (PDC). According to the latest Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) warning #6, this tropical depression, the lowest category of tropical cyclone, will remain weak as it moves across the Luzon Strait toward southern Taiwan.
Sri Lanka
Nearly 200,000 displaced by conflict in Sri Lanka's north
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
Increased fighting between Tamil Tiger separatists and government troops in Sri Lanka's restive north has displaced over 52,000 families, or nearly 200,000 people, the UN says. According to the UN's Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), an umbrella grouping of UN agencies and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), said in its weekly review of humanitarian activities in Sri Lanka's conflict-affected north and east, that around 193,000 people have been displaced in four northern districts.
29 killed in rebel fighting in Sri Lanka
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
At least 29 people have been killed in the latest fighting in Sri Lanka's north, Sri Lankan officials said Wednesday (August 27). The defense ministry said that at least 27 Tamil Tiger separatist rebels and two soldiers were killed in ground battles across the island nation's restive north since Tuesday (August 26), Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Afghanistan
Abducted Japanese aid worker found dead in eastern Afghanistan
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
Afghan officials said today (Wednesday, August 27) that a Japanese aid worker who was abducted by suspected Taliban militants on Tuesday (August 26), and originally thought to have been freed, has been killed by his captors. Gul Agha Sherzai, governor of eastern Nangarhar province, where Kazuya Ito, 31, was kidnapped with his Afghan driver, told Reuters, "He [Ito] has been killed.
More than 50 killed in bombings, airstrikes across Afghanistan
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
More than 50 people, mostly suspected Taliban fighters, were killed in a series of clashes, bombings and airstrikes across Afghanistan's north, south and southeast overnight, sources reported on Wednesday (August 27). A German soldier on the NATO-led force was killed and three others wounded in a roadside bomb attack on Wednesday in the northern province of Kunduz.
Pakistan
At least 49 killed as fighting flares in Pakistan
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
Across Pakistan's wild tribal belt, security forces battled with militants on Wednesday (August 27), killing at least 49 insurgents, the army said. While the Associated Press said 49 insurgents had been killed, the BBC reported the deaths of 47 insurgents.
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