A malnourished baby cries in his mother’s lap inside Medicine Sans Frontieres intensive care unit near Sheshemene, southern Ethiopia, June 8, 2008. (Radu Sigheti/Reuters)Reuters - The number of people living “on the edge
of emergency” in Africa has nearly doubled to 220 million in
just two years, a leading charity said on Thursday.
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Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo smiles after a meeting with businessmen at Sao Paulo’s Industries Federation, in Sao Paulo, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. Lugo is on a one-day official visit to Brazil.(AP Photo/Andre Penner)AP - Paraguay’s new President Fernando Lugo visited Brazil Wednesday with one goal: launching talks to earn his poor country more money from a dam on the nations’ shared border, the largest hydroelectric project in the world.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (R) meets with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) in Tripoli September 5, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - The heart of many homes is the kitchen
and that is where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hosted
Condoleezza Rice for a Ramadan meal this week, a symbolic
gesture to try to end decades of enmity.
This Monday June 30, 2008 file photo shows Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe leaving the eleventh ordinary session of the assembly of the African Union heads of State and government in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Robert Mugabe’s brazen power grab in Zimbabwe’s election saga has left cracks in one of African leaders’ unspoken rules: Never turn on one of your own. The fact that even a handful of states are refusing to recognize Zimbabwe’s ruler of 28 years marks an unprecedented change in Africa that offers a glimmer of hope for a brighter, more democratic future. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File )AP - Robert Mugabe’s brazen power grab in Zimbabwe’s election saga has left cracks in one of African leaders’ unspoken rules: Never turn on one of your own.
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) and Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (R) as they arrive at the Elysee Palace July 13, 2008. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE)AP - Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared Sunday that Israel and the Palestinians have never been closer to making peace even as a widening corruption probe brings him closer than ever to being ousted from office.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, shares a word with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a Mediterranean Summit round table meeting at the Grand Palais in Paris, Sunday July 13, 2008. The Union for the Mediterranean will bring together leaders of 43 nations in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, some of whom have never before sat around a single table. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - Forty-three nations, including Israel and Arab states, pledged Sunday to work for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction at the close of a summit to launch an unprecedented Union for the Mediterranean aimed at securing peace across the restive region.
An afghan child walks near the Indian Embassy with security barriers around the compound after a suicide attack on Monday in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday July 10, 2008, The suicide bomber who detonated his vehicle at the gates of the Embassy in Kabul intended to destroy the embassy itself, the Indian ambassador to Afghanistan said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - A group of villagers in northwestern Afghanistan used a machine gun, sticks and stones to kill two Taliban militants and chase 10 others away, a provincial police chief said Thursday.
An unidentified relative of Alexia Belem Guerrero touches her coffin during the burial ceremony at a cemetery in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June 12, 2008. Moreno, who was 12, was shot in the head while riding in a vehicle as she was returning from school, apparently caught in the crossfire during a gun battle between drug smugglers. She is part of an alarming trend of children being caught in the increasingly bloody battle for control of lucrative drug smuggling routes. (AP Photo/Diario de Juarez, Luis Torres)AP - Twelve-year-old Alexia Belen Moreno was afraid living in her father’s house in Ciudad Juarez, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody war. She begged to move in with her mother just across the border in El Paso, Texas. Her parents agreed but asked her to stay a few more weeks to finish school.
In this Oct. 14, 2006 file photo, farmer Andrew Higham looks over his parched land on his Gunnedah property in northwestern New South Wales, Australia. A decade-long drought in Australia’s most important crop-growing region is worsening and there is little hope for relief from either saving rains or a new government conservation plan, officials said Thursday, July 10, 2008.(AP Photo/Peter Lorimer, File)AP - A decade-long drought in Australia’s most important crop-growing region is worsening and there is little hope for relief from either saving rains or a new government conservation plan, officials said Thursday.
A man leans on his shovel as he stands on a dry field on the outskirts of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 2, 2008. It’s been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq, a dry spell that has devastated the country’s crucial wheat crop and created new worries about the safety of drinking water. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - It’s been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq a dry spell that has devastated the country’s crucial wheat crop and created new worries about the safety of drinking water.
