UNITED NATIONS- The UN coordinator of relief efforts called Tuesday for a new international plan for Afghanistan, warning that humanitarian problems there were getting worse as a result of soaring food prices, declining security and

Italy will more than double its humanitarian aid this year from 60 to 130 million euros (93 to 202 million dollars), mostly for food aid, the Italian foreign ministry said. Rome would announce its plans for 2008, which would see the

UN humanitarian chief John Holmes awaited Thursday a visa to travel to Myanmar where he hopes to press the junta to allow in foreign aid to help survivors of the deadly cyclone, the UN said.  As state media raised the death toll to