Summary: AP - Hungry Afghans looking for their next meal eye bread scraps piled up like heaps of trash at a Kabul market as a vendor weighs out fistfuls of the stale crusts on a scale. A Pashtun woman waits with an empty plastic sack.
Summary: President George W Bush called for 770 million 3894 million pounds in new US food aid donations and other measures on Thursday as Washington seeks to stave off a food crisis threatening to envelop the developing world
Summary: Russia said on Thursday an extra contingent of its troops had begun arriving in Georgias breakaway region of Abkhazia a move Tbilisi said was an illegal act of military aggression
Summary: Somalias Islamist rebels vowed to fight on under new leadership on Friday after US warplanes killed an insurgent said to be al Qaedas commander in the Horn of Africa country
Summary: Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej piqued global interest this week when he suggested the formation of a rice cartel with other producers, a government spokesman said.
Summary: Hundreds of government workers in Burma were forced to vote in favour of an armydrafted constitution in nonsecret ballots held more than a week before a May 10 referendum some of the workers said
Summary: Fijis military government deported the Australian publisher of Rupert Murdochs Fiji Times newspaper on Friday after declaring him a threat to national security
Summary: An Al Jazeera cameraman held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay for six years without charge has been released the network said on Thursday
Summary: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri alMaliki has sent a delegation to tell Iran to stop backing Shiite militias officials said on Thursday underscoring Iraqs unease over the influence of its powerful neighbour
Summary: The Olympic flame will be paraded through Hong Kong on Friday to a largely welcoming public and isolated protests its first leg on Chinese soil after becoming a beacon of controversy on a 20nation world tour
