Saturday, May 20, 2006

UN relief official warns of collapse in Darfur (Reuters)


UN relief official warns of collapse in Darfur (Reuters)

Jan Egeland, the U.N. under-secretary for humanitarian affairs, talks to widows in the Gereida area of Sudan's South Darfur state May 8, 2006. The next few weeks are critical for millions of people in Darfur as foreign aid efforts face collapse, and malnutrition and mortality may increase, Egeland said on Friday. (Opheera McDoom/Reuters)Reuters - The next few weeks are critical for millions of people in Darfur as foreign aid efforts face collapse, and malnutrition and mortality may increase, the chief U.N. relief official said on Friday.




This must be why they call it a cell block (Reuters)

Inmates sit at the windows of their jail cells at Guarulhos prison in Sao Paulo, May 15, 2006. Family visits in Sao Paulo prisons only take place once a week but jailed Brazilian gangsters chat on their contraband cell phones every day. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)Reuters - Family visits in Sao Paulo prisons only take place once a week but jailed Brazilian gangsters chat on their contraband cell phones every day.




Venezuela stages mock foreign invasion (Reuters)

A Venezuelan soldier stands in a tank as he takes position outside the Amuay refinery while taking part in an invasion simulation in Punto Fijo, May 18 2006. Army, (Jorge Silva/Reuters)Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has for years predicted that a foreign army would attack the South American nation to snatch its vast oil reserves. A simulation conducted this week showed how it might happen.



posted by Don @ Saturday, May 20, 2006

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