Newsfile aggregates news that might otherwise drop off the horizon about situations affecting humanitarian work and the international situation. It doesn't chase after the most immediate stories which other newsfeeds can offer. Latest items from each region are presented first. To comply with fair-use rules we give only a headline, or enough of the story to explain the headline. All the stories cited are fully detailed. Dollars are U.S. unless stated otherwise.
Global
USA-Russia
The Guardian Friday 26 March 2010
The Guardian Wednesday 24 March 2010
The Guardian Monday 29 March 2010
Africa
D.R. Congo
Eastern Africa
AP: The Independent Wednesday 24 March 2010
Nigeria
Independent Tuesday 16 March 2010
Rwanda
Independent, Monday 15 March 2010
Sudan
AP: Independent Tuesday 23 March 2010
Americas
USA
PlanetArk Wednesday 24 March 2010
Asia
China
PlanetArk Monday 15 March 2010
The Guardian Thursday 25 March 2010
Europe
Italy
Berlusconi controls many outlets, but Italian law also contributes to restrictions on press freedom.
Serbia
Parliament stops short of calling killings genocide after debate showing divisions over Balkans conflict role
The Guardian, Wednesday 31 March 2010
The European Union warned that it was insufficient if Serbia wanted closer ties with the bloc. For that, the E.U. foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, indicated, Serbia must hand over Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military commander indicted more than 15 years ago on war crimes charges but still on the run.
UK
The parliamentary science and technology select committee today strongly criticised the University of East Anglia for not tackling a "culture of withholding information" among the climate change scientists whose private emails caused a furore after being leaked online in November. It added that the scientific reputation of Prof Phil Jones, the head of the UEA's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and the CRU was untarnished.
The Guardian, Wednesday 31 March 2010
A parliamentary panel investigating allegations that scientists at one of the world’s leading climate research centers misrepresented data related to global warming announced Wednesday that it had found no evidence to support that charge.
But the panel, the Science and Technology Committee of the British House of Commons, did fault scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit and its director, Prof. Phil Jones, for the way they handled freedom of information requests from skeptics challenging the evidence of climate change.
AP/New York Times March 30, 2010
The Guardian Thursday 25 March 2010
The Guardian Wednesday 24 March 2010