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East Asia / Pacific - Thailand
Muslim insurgency stokes fear in southern Thailand
Feb.
26, 2007
PATTANI, Thailand:
Some are already calling it war, a
brutal Muslim separatist insurgency in southern Thailand that has taken as
many as 2,000 lives in three years, with almost- daily bombings, drive-by
shootings, arson and beheadings.
Sub-Saharan
Africa - Nigeria
Lockdown in Nigeria
Feb.
12, 2007
Port Harcourt,
Nigeria -
Oil companies in Port Harcourt, the main city in
Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, have reinforced security for their
staff following a wave of kidnappings and attacks, industry sources said on
Monday.
Americas -
Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia
Dengue alert issued in S America
Feb. 8, 2007
A
health alert has been declared in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia after an
outbreak of dengue fever. The authorities have blamed higher rainfall
this season as a cause of the unusually rapid spread of the disease.
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Europe - Russia
Feb. 5, 2007
Registration Rules Stir Up Confusion
Moscow, Russia: According to a new
law that came into effect Jan. 15, foreigners are now required to hand over
their registration papers to migration officials -- via their employer or
other sponsor -- every time they leave the country and re-register upon
subsequent entry into the country.
Europe - Netherlands
North Sea Airborne
Chemical Danger
1/30/07
U.S.
Consulate General Amsterdam issued this warning to U.S. Citizens traveling
to and residing in the Netherlands that the Consulate has been informed that
a ship fire west of Amsterdam is releasing large amounts of Hydrogen-Cyanide
and Carbon-Monoxide into the air, which is blowing east towards Amsterdam
and north towards Beverwijk and Zaanstad.
Kidnap group leader nabbed
East Asia /
Pacific - Philippines
LINGAYEN -- A leader of the Pepino kidnap-for-ransom group was arrested
Wednesday in Bolinao, Pangasinan Wednesday, police officials said.
Tensions mount in Bolivian region
Americas - Bolivia Bolivia's central
government has said it will not recognise a parallel
administration set up by protesters in the central
state of Cochabamba. The demonstrators, mainly coca
leaf growers who back President Evo Morales, want
the local governor, who is aligned with the
opposition, to resign.
Foreign Workers Freed in Nigeria
Sub-Saharan Africa -
Nigeria Five
Chinese workers kidnapped in Nigeria's
oil-rich Niger Delta region have been freed.
Unidentified gunmen seized the group of
telecommunications engineers near the city
of Port Harcourt on 5 January.
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