Tajikistan 'facing catastrophe'
292382
The UN's World Food Programme warns that Tajikistan is experiencing emergency food shortages.
445472
An avalanche killed at least 16 people in the mountains of Tajikistan on Saturday while more people remained trapped under snow, an Interior Ministry official said.
114350
With electricity reserves depleted, officials in impoverished Tajikistan Â where residents are enduring one of the coldest winters in 25 years Â said Tuesday they would be forced to cut power to much of the country.
283909
The full scale of the catastrophe around the shores of the Indian Ocean is only slowly emerging. The death toll rises by tens of thousands each day, with the prospect that it could redouble
20803
Afghanistan's soaring opium trade threatens to wreck rebuilding efforts, the UN and World Bank warn.
667363
Ukraine&#39;s political crisis has virtually paralyzed the country, brought hundreds of thousands of protesters into the streets and threatened to erupt into civil war.
402233
The border region between Chad and Sudan must be one of the harshest and most remote environments on earth. There is no ideal place to have a refugee crisis, of course, but as locations go this is surely among the worst.
391048
Children in Afghanistan are increasingly at risk as the country's security situation deteriorates and the central government's authority is weakened, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Thursday.
684875
East Timor could slide into renewed violence if it does not reform its security services, a think-tank says.
477471
Thousands of people have been evacuated from Tajikistan's eastern mountainous region following a series of avalanches, the Emergency Ministry said Tuesday.
205337
Zimbabwe will collapse within six months, possibly leading to a state of emergency, says a report sent to aid workers.
503896
Â· Diplomats trawl refugee camps for any delegates Â· UN also faces 'disaster' over international force
584380
Excerpt from report by Tajik news agency Asia-Plus website  International norms on the use of transborder water are making the "Tajik dream" totally senseless. Now all of them regret about this.
279275
Bullets and bomb that killed Benazir Bhutto have also put country's future in jeopardy, writes Julian Borger
314996
The national security of Ukraine is in danger, according to a written statement sent to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and Ukrainian parliament speaker Volodymyr Litvin by Oleksandr Zinchenko, the head of ...
54763
WHEN it came, the end of the siege at School No1 in the small north Ossetian town of Beslan was the worst possible outcome. It was protracted, chaotic and bloody and a catastrophe not just for the families
112858
International relief agencies were concentrating their efforts on countries least able to cope with what officials said Monday was "unprecedented" devastation wrought by tidal waves and a massive earthquake that killed tens of thousands in southern Asia.