#BREAKING Pakistan needs $10 billion for flood repairs, rebuilding: planning minister
Relief and desperation in Pakistan's makeshift flood camps.
Camps have sprung up in schools, along motorways and at military bases to give shelter to millions of displaced flood victims. But the relief at finding safety can turn to desperation for many
#BREAKING Pakistan floods 'the worst in the history' of the country: PM Sharif
#UPDATE Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on Tuesday to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains that have submerged a third of the country and claimed more than 1,100 lives ▶️ u.afp.com/wtwL#PakistanFloods
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#BREAKING Kyiv accuses Russia of shelling town by nuclear plant as IAEA team en route
#BREAKING IAEA team reaches Zaporizhzhia en route to Russia-held nuclear plant: AFP
#UPDATE A team of IAEA nuclear inspectors arrived in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia Wednesday ahead of a visit to a Russian-held nuclear power plant on the frontline, an AFP correspondent said.
#BREAKING Iraq's Moqtada Sadr gives followers one hour to end protests
#UPDATE Iraq's powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr called Tuesday on followers to end all protests after fighting with rival Shiite forces backed by Iran raged for a second day in Baghdad's Green Zone
#BREAKING Iraqi Sadr supporters start to leave Green Zone after call to end protests: media
#BREAKING Angolan opposition says will contest election results
#UPDATE Angola's largest opposition party UNITA will contest last week's election results that saw the long-ruling MPLA win a majority.
Elections held on August 24 were the most hotly contested the oil-rich country has seen since its first multi-party vote in 1992
VIDEO: Angola's President Joao Lourenco promises to keep working on the 'social and economic development' of Angola after winning a second five-year term.
His MPLA party emerged victorious with a thin majority in last week's closely fought election.
VIDEO: Shots are heard in front of the Green Zone during the night in Baghdad, a few hours after the powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr said he was quitting politics, amid a nearly year-long political stalemate
#BREAKING 23 protesters shot dead in Baghdad's Green Zone: new toll
#UPDATE Fighting between rival Iraqi forces rages for a second day with rocket fire echoing from Baghdad's Green Zone where 23 supporters of powerful Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr have been shot dead, medics say