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Days after a cyclone struck southern Bangladesh, the country's mobilizing to get relief to the estimated one million families affected. The Bangladeshi authorities say the storm killed more than 2,300 people. Aid agencies warn that this figure could go much higher. Doctor Unnikrishnan works for the relief agency Action Aid.
Houses have been flattened out, agricultural areas have been submerged and when people are going back, they'll realize that they've lost everything. And please remember that: the country was trying to recover from floods, which was one of the worst in living memory. And then three months ago, people have lost everything. So they were trying to live their life. And again, this is another burden that has been added to them.
With 90% of votes counted in Kosovo's parliamentary elections, monitors say the pro-independence PDK led by the former ethnic Albanian guerilla commander Hashim Thaci has a commanding lead. In second place is the LDK party which formed part of the last government. It too wants independence from Serbia. Nick Hawton reports from Pristina.
Negotiations were now taking place between the main parties to form a new coalition government. That will face the immediate challenge of trying to resolve the political status of Kosovo, which remains a part of Serbia but whose majority ethnic Albanian population wants independence. International officials have warned that if the status issue is not resolved soon, the situation in the province could deteriorate.
A huge methane explosion, more than a kilometer underground at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine has killed at least 63 miners. The Ukrainian authority said many others were missing, Mike Sanders reports.
More than 400 miners were working the nightshift at the Zasyadka coal mine when the gas ignited shortly after 3 o'clock more than a kilometer down. A survivor Vitaliy Kvitkovsky said he'd just missed the full force of the blast.
I was walking towards the coal scene, suddenly there was a bang, it became really hot, there was heat and thick dust. You could see absolutely nothing.
The mine manager sent more than 60 rescue teams and around 20 medical teams to get the survivors out and to look for the missing. Union officials didn't hold out much hope of finding many more alive.
A human rights group in Uzbekistan has reported another death from torture in one of the country's prisons, the second in a week. The group says the body of Tohir Nurmuhammedov was returned to his family on Wednesday from a prison in the eastern town of Andijan. He'd been sentenced to eight years in jail for membership of the radical Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is illegal in Uzbekistan.
Reports from Turkmenistan say the government has asked the American energy company General Electric to build two power stations in the capital Ashkhabad. Analysts say it's the latest sign that President Berdimuhammedow wants greater foreign participation in Turkmenistan's economy after years of isolation under his predecessor.
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Members of the oil producers' group OPEC have promised to provide what they call adequate, timely and sufficient supplies to the market. But the final declaration from the OPEC summit in Saudi Arabia did not mention a short-term increase in production, which the United States and other countries want to see in order to reduce the price of oil. Here is our economic correspondent Andrew Walker.
After several years of apparently inexorable rises, the main international benchmark price of crude oil has come close to 100 dollars a barrel. OPEC already has a key role in supplying the growing demand responsible for that price. It dominates known reserves of oil and so its role is sure to grow in the coming years. So the summit's commitment to supply what's needed is important. In the near future, that raises the question of whether the group will increase production when energy ministers meet next month. The longer-term issue is whether OPEC members are willing to invest enough in developing their oil fields.
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world's leading industrialized and emerging economies the G20, have failed to make progress in deciding how to reform the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to give developing countries more influence. The IMF managing director said the question of which industrialized countries would relinquish some control remained unresolved.
Human rights activists have called on the Nigerian government to open an independent inquiry into the number of people shot by the police. Nigerian police say they've killed several thousand people in recent years, nearly all allegedly armed criminals.
The BBC Lagos correspondent says rampant levels of crime are fueled by poverty, unemployment and the proliferation of guns.
The Italian opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi has launched a new center-right party, the Italian People's Freedoms Party. He told supporters at a rally in Milan that the new party would be open-minded and would stand against what he described as the old fogies of politics.
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