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Satellite images of Sri Lanka’s war zone indicate the government has shelled the area in recent days, a rights group said on Wednesday.
The UN condemned a ”bloodbath” in Sri Lanka on Monday after two days of shelling that a government doctor said killed 1 000 civilians.
The government appealed on Friday for civilians to flee the war zone and said it would open two safe passages in the area for the exodus.
Human Rights Watch called on Thursday on the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigerss to allow civilians trapped in the war zone to flee to safety.
Fighting between government forces and rebels are killing about 40 civilians every day, the top health official in the region said on Friday.
Sri Lanka’s president urged the Tiger rebels on Friday to allow about 250 000 civilians trapped in the northern war zone to flee to safety.
Thousands have fled Sri Lanka’s northern war zone in recent days, crossing the front lines amid fierce fighting, the military said on Friday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday he would push ahead with the army’s widescale offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying the fight to free an abducted soldier and stop…
A hospital official said early on Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains in serious condition and will be in a medically induced coma the immediate future after…
Palestinians fired a barrage of homemade rockets and mortar shells at Gaza Strip settlements and towns inside Israel in retaliation for the killing of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz…
A suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing at least 10 bystanders and wounding about 30 in an attack outside Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s…
A suicide bomber blew up on a bus in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing at least 10 bystanders and wounding about 30 in an attack outside Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s official…
When US President George Bush visits Africa this week, he will find a continent crippled by catastrophe. Millions upon millions are already dead, orphaned or sick from Aids.
Irish rock star Bono’s voice cracked on Friday as he tried to explain the emotions he felt talking to a group of mothers infected with the Aids virus.
Aids killed 3-million people last year. The year before, tuberculosis killed 1,7-million and malaria more than a million others.
The girls giggle nervously as they talk about their hunger. Their grades have plummeted. They fall asleep in class from exhaustion. Often, when they have nothing at all to eat,…
