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President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney suspended their political campaigns in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Colorado that both men called an act of evil.
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The Ugandan rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, killed as many as 100 civilians in an attack in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in February, according to the United Nations.
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The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo is “indispensable” to the humanitarian relief effort there, a UN humanitarian official said.
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Los Angeles’s highest-paid city employees get three-day weekends, 27 vacation days annually and an ocean view from their workplace.
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Southern Sudan should invest in agriculture to feed its people and help ease a humanitarian crisis gripping the oil-rich region, the top United Nations humanitarian official said.
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Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari made his first visit to regions swamped by the country’s worst ever floods as relief officials appealed for urgent deliveries of food, shelters and medicine for 14 million displaced people.
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The U.S. is relying on the military to funnel meals, prefabricated bridges and medical supplies to Pakistan’s flood victims, even as American troops fight a war in neighboring Afghanistan.
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Seven U.K. insurers including Aviva Plc , RBS Insurance Group Ltd. and RSA Insurance Group Plc agreed to limit the amount of data they share after an investigation into pricing practices by the Office of Fair Trading.
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The United Nations said 800,000 victims from Pakistan’s worst flooding in decades are stranded in areas that can only be reached by air.
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Pakistan plugged flood defenses near a southern city as officials warned that with farmland unlikely to be fit for cultivation for at least six months massive aid was needed to prevent social unrest.
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