The United Nations has warned at least three million Afghans are in urgent need of food and could face famine if they do not get help. Talking to reporters in Kabul, UN humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan Toby Lanzer said the figure is among the highest in the world and required the most urgent ...

Aid agencies say that nearly one hundred fifty thousand people in the quake-hit region of Papua New Guinea are in urgent need of emergency supplies. Director of the International Red Cross in the country, Udaya Regmi, told a foreign news agency today that the damaged roads and landslides hamper the ...