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Leaders overlook Aboriginal issues

Oxfam begins Pakistan relief

Growing social divide feeds Maoist insurgency

National urged to help poor - before three-course lunch

Great poverty still affects pockets of NZ, ministers were told yesterday - shortly before their sumptuous three-course lunch.

Myanmar's paranoid ruler plots a safe exit

Rapper loses cool over slow progress in Haiti

City Mission running low on food, clothes

Family want to bring long-lost 'Auntie Ethel' home

Homeless woman found on the streets of Honolulu is believed to be the granddaughter of a chief who signed the Treaty of Waitangi.

Kindness kills when aid prolongs wars

Humanitarian help has become a huge industry, buffering corrupt regimes and perpetuating war, claims the author of a new book.

India's poor hits 410m

Kyrgyzstan violence alarm bell for other Central Asian dictatorships

Amnesty no cure for militant rage created by poverty

<i>Fran O'Sullivan</i>: Daunting challenge to feed the world

Prime Minister John Key will today front the first full meeting of a global environmental alliance.

Crackdown brings summer of love to an end in San Francisco

Red Cross in Mongolia appeal

Refugees 'face starvation'