Source: Reuters * Country's largest paper posts clip of cleric's speech * Wilders demands explanation from anti-terror unit By Ben Berkowitz AMSTERDAM, Sept 3 (Reuters) - A well-known Australian Muslim ...

Source: Reuters * Response costs remain high * No big increase in compensation payout rate * Internal report into rig blast due next week * Fortnight away from sealing well for good * Shares rise 0.2 pct ...

Source: IRIN Myanmar's military government, with soldiers scattered throughout the country, is arbitrarily levying fees from the rural poor, pushing some into hunger and debt, experts say.

Source: IRIN As rising food prices, growing populations and natural disasters increasingly put pressure on food production, governments and scientists are focusing on preserving the world's agricultural biodiversity through seed and gene banks.

Source: IRIN Pastoralists' disproportionate contribution to Ethiopia's economy is belied by their marginalized status and by policy assumptions that they would be better off farming. But those who raise livestock tend to make the most of marginal land, according to experts, and are often proficient at adapting to changing circumstances.

Source: IRIN Public sector strikes in South Africa have become so common in recent years that people are asking if plans should not be put in place to prevent the disruption of HIV and tuberculosis [TB] treatment, and prepare health workers.

Source: IRIN A volley of price increases in basic commodities and services has sparked two days of rioting and looting in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, but the government is refusing to rescind them.

Source: IRIN A Dutch engineering company is trying to make safer the dangerous job of dismantling old ships contaminated with chemicals - by building the world's first "green dock wharf" in Bangladesh.

Source: Reuters * Damages estimated at $3.3 million * Seven killed, 288 injured in riots * Rights group criticises government By Charles Mangwiro MAPUTO, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Mozambique's capital Maputo got ...

Source: Reuters By Faisal Aziz and Sahar Ahmed KARACHI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday it will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid and disburse the funds in ...