A www.iquango.org RSS Feed http://www.iquango.org//news/dpa A feed from www.iquango.org. en-gb rss@thegovernmentsays.com 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 daily OPT: Extra - Women, children now 50 per cent of Gaza death toll, says UN http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MCOT-7N3J8D?OpenDocument Tel Aviv_(dpa) _ Some 50 per cent of the 680 Palestinians killed during 12 days of Israeli raids and ground fighting in Gaza are women and minors, a United Nations agency said Wednesday. OPT: Israel announces "humanitarian corridor" for Gaza Strip http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-7N32X2?OpenDocument Tel Aviv_(dpa) _ Israel plans to establish a "humanitarian corridor" to get needed supplies to Palestinian civilians in the embattled Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced overnight Tuesday. Ten killed in heavy rains in Mozambique since December http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-7N33VV?OpenDocument Maputo_(dpa) _ At least 10 people have been killed in the heavy rains battering several regions of Mozambique since December, the daily paper Noticias reported Tuesday. Ugandan rebels attack Congolese game park, killing eight people http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/YSAR-7N2MBB?OpenDocument Kampala_(dpa) _ Ugandan rebels the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killed eight civilians as they retreated from a failed attack on the offices of a game park in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugandan officials said Tuesday. Officials warn of further "ferocious storms" in eastern South Africa http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/YSAR-7N2MFP?OpenDocument Durban_(dpa) _ A storm warning was Tuesday issued in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province amid forecasts of further "ferocious storms" by as early as Friday, officials said. Fresh xenophobic violence in South Africa: One killed http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/FBUO-7N2H3F?OpenDocument Durban_(dpa) _ Six months after violent xenophobic clashes in South Africa, renewed tensions between locals and foreigners were reported in the port city of Durban on Tuesday. South African storm's death toll rises to 18 http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/CJAL-7MZQZX?OpenDocument Johannesburg_(dpa) _ The death toll in a storm that struck South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province over the weekend has risen to 18, according to the South African news agency Sapa, citing government officials. Background: Israeli ground offensives in Gaza and the West Bank http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/FBUO-7MZE69?OpenDocument Hamburg_(dpa) _ Israel has repeatedly sent ground troops into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in reaction to attacks on by Palestinian extremists. Recent major offensives have included: 520 Palestinians killed since Israeli offensive began http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MYM4H?OpenDocument Gaza City_(dpa) _ Some 520 Palestinians have been killed, and 2,500 injured, since December 27 in the Israeli offensive against militants in the Gaza Strip, a medical official in the salient said Sunday. OPT: Red Cross says its medical team denied access to Gaza http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MYMLG?OpenDocument Geneva_(dpa) _ A specialist medical team from the International Committee of the Red Cross has been unable to enter the Gaza Strip for the past three days, a spokeswoman for the organization said Sunday. Cold wave kills another 22 in northern India http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MYL3W?OpenDocument New Delhi_(dpa) _ At least 22 more people died as temperatures dipped in northern India raising the death toll in the cold wave in the region to more than 70, a news report said Sunday. Cold wave claims over 50 lives in northern India http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MYL5F?OpenDocument New Delhi_(dpa) _ Over 50 people have died as towns and cities in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state came under the grip of a cold wave, a news report said Saturday. OPT: European diplomats head to Mideast amid Gaza hostilities http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MYKZ2?OpenDocument Brussels/Cairo_(dpa) _ Amid a scathing attack Sunday from the Arab League, several European diplomats and leaders were readying to travel to the Mideast region in a bid to push for a ceasefire in the wake of Israel's military incursion into the Gaza Strip. Powerful earthquake strikes Indonesia's Papua, kills five http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-7MYA89?OpenDocument Jakarta_(dpa) _ A series of powerful earthquakes on Sunday morning rattled the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua, cutting off power lines, killing at least five people and injuring dozens of others, Zimbabwe's hospitals to allow payment in foreign currency http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MXQ4Z?OpenDocument Harare_(dpa) _ Public hospitals in Zimbabwe will start accepting payment for all medical services in foreign currency; a development which the government hopes will improve the country's collapsed health service. Uganda considers following Ethiopian troops out of Somalia http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-7MXP6B?OpenDocument Kampala_(dpa) _ Uganda warned Saturday that it may withdraw its troops from peacekeeping duties in Somalia as Ethiopia pulls its forces out after a two-year occupation of the conflict-stricken nation. OPT: Saudi King calls for a national aid campaign to Gaza http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7MX3VR?OpenDocument Riyadh_(dpa) _ Saudi Arabian King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz called on Thursday for an urgent national aid campaign for the people in Gaza, Saudi news agency reported. EU to send beefed-up peace mission to Middle East http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SKAR-7MWJN7?OpenDocument Brussels (dpa) - The European Union is to send a beefed-up peace mission to the Middle East in a bid to end the ongoing conflict between Israel and Islamic group Hamas, officials in Brussels confirmed Friday.