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...relief effort includes a clothing drive, a possible raffle fundraiser, and a benefit performance co-sponsored by the Harvard Vietnamese Association (HVA). HVA’s vice-president Huy V. Nguyen ’10 said the show will involve “diverse groups to get a diverse audience to raise as much awareness as possible.” The benefit show will also include pictures and video clips to show the extent of devastation in the Philippines...
...lawless North-West Frontier Province, after a vehicle laden with explosives slammed into the side of a hotel in the city, killing 17 people. Just hours after Monday's attack, the U.N. said all of its offices in Islamabad would be closed indefinitely. That could severely hamper relief efforts just when refugees need it most. The WFP has been coordinating the distribution of food and other relief supplies to more than 2 million people who had fled the fighting between the Pakistani army and insurgents in the Swat Valley of the North-West Frontier Province this summer as well...
...Over the past few years, foreign aid workers have increasingly become the targets of attacks in the region as militants have tried to drive relief programs out of the area. Earlier this year, a 21-year-old Afghan fighter who had trained in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province, tried to kill four American aid workers in a car bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan. After his arrest, Shafiq Shah gave an interview to TIME in a Kabul prison in which he described the indoctrination that young fighters receive concerning the role of foreign aid workers. "[Muslim aid recipients] shouldn...
...Prime Minister Brian Cowen said he was delighted by the "decisive" vote. "Today we have done the right thing for our own future and the future of our children," he said. Cowen's relief was echoed across the whole of the E.U., where leaders had been watching the result as closely as the Irish. (The Union operates by consensus, meaning major policy questions have to be approved by all 27 member states.) "I am really glad with the result," said European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. "The Irish people have spoken. They have said a resounding yes to Europe...
...really feel a collective sigh of relief in Brussels," says Julia De Clerck-Sachsse, research fellow at the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) think-tank. "A 'No' would not only have been the end of the Lisbon Treaty, but the end of any major E.U. reforms...