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Tsunami-battered countries restart, rebuild amid challenges

Visitors shuttle in and out of a state-of-the-art hospital in an Indonesian town once devastated by towering tsunami waves five years ago, while in nearby Thailand backpackers dance to music in bars and tourists lodge in a hotel that had been demolished in the Boxing Day disaster.

Asian tsunami warning system: A last-mile challenge

Yudi Rinaldi had his four-year-old son, Ryan, join him in a scene that simulated the real destruction he had narrowly escaped in Aceh, Indonesia.

Saving the rainforests: REDD or dead?

The U.N.'s forest carbon scheme which has formed part of the negotiations at the climate talks in Copenhagen has been one of the few areas where countries are broadly in agreement.

Nigerian rebels threaten to end cease-fire

Nigerian militants threatened to end their cease-fire not long after it began Wednesday because they claimed the government was threatening one of their camps.

Nigerian militants claim oil pipeline sabotage

A Nigerian militant group claimed Wednesday it sabotaged oil pipelines in the country's oil-rich southern Niger Delta, but the country's military denies the assertion.

Nigerian militants claim pipeline blast, tanker crew's seizure

Nigerian militants said Monday they had blown up an oil pipeline and captured six crew members of a chemical tanker.

Nigeria oil company rejects damning Amnesty report

Nigeria's state oil company rejected criticism from a leading human rights group Wednesday, calling an Amnesty International report "inaccurate."

Report expresses concern for clearing Iraqi landmines

Two U.N. agencies said Wednesday they are concerned that Iraq will not be able to meet its obligations under the global treaty to ban landmines.

Al Qaeda blamed for Somali bombing wave

A string of suicide bombings targeting government buildings and a United Nations compound in Somalia left at least 25 people dead Wednesday in attacks a U.S. official said bore hallmarks of the al Qaeda terror network.

Gunmen slay another aid agent in Somalia

Gunmen in Somalia have shot dead an agent for a World Food Program transport company, the U.N. agency said Tuesday.

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