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| SYRIA: WFP pilots SMS food distribution |  DAMASCUS, 4 November 2009 (IRIN) - A new pilot project by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Syria has come up with a novel way of getting food aid to Iraqi refugees. WFP claims the project is a world first.
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| | EGYPT: Pig cull hits livelihoods |  CAIRO, 26 October 2009 (IRIN) - The Egyptian government's May 2009 decision to cull the country's entire pig population - ostensibly to stem the spread of H1N1 influenza - has hit the livelihoods of 70,000 former pig farmers and unofficial rubbish collectors and their families in the Cairo area, according to local NGO Association for the Protection of the Environment.
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| | IRAQ: War remnants, pollution behind rise in cancer deaths? |  BAGHDAD, 14 October 2009 (IRIN) - In the late 1990s 22-year-old Manal Sabir Abdullah from Basra was diagnosed with lung cancer, from which she eventually died in 2004.
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| | GLOBAL: Put women at core of climate change debate, say activists |  BANGKOK, 13 October 2009 (IRIN) - Women are being excluded from the debate over climate change, despite being most at risk, and governments should do more to ensure their situations and views are represented, campaigners and experts say.
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| | How To: Rescue people trapped in a collapsed building |  NAIROBI, 8 October 2009 (IRIN) - When an earthquake strikes a town, or a building is levelled by an explosion, news footage invariably shows search and rescue teams trawling through the rubble looking for survivors. But what does it take to rescue people trapped under tons of concrete?
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