NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - Aid workers are at risk of overlooking threats to their safety in Pakistan in the scramble to help millions of people hit by floods, analysts say.

With an area the size of Italy inundated and massive challenges in distributing aid, aid workers may be tempted to improvise when it comes to security, a risky strategy in the volatile country where attacks by Taliban-linked militants are frequent.

"It's reasonable to expect that some security restrictions have been…

NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - Aid workers are at risk of overlooking threats to their safety in Pakistan in the scramble to help millions of people hit by floods, analysts say.

With an area the size of Italy inundated and massive challenges in distributing aid, aid workers may be tempted to improvise when it comes to security, a risky strategy in the volatile country where attacks by Taliban-linked militants are frequent.

"It's reasonable to expect that some security restrictions have been…

(CNN) -- Three people died after Typhoon Kompasu hit central South Korea Thursday morning, the Yonhap News Agency reported.

Kompasu also halted much of the metropolitan area's subway service, toppled trees and caused widespread power outages, the agency said. Airlines canceled or diverted domestic and international flights.

According to Yonhap: A flying roof tile killed an 80-year-old man in Seosan, South Chungcheong province. A broken tree branch fatally struck a 37-year-old man in Bundang,…

MUZAFFARGARH, Pakistan, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Victims of Pakistan's floods queued to get medical treatment on Tuesday as doctors complained of a shortage of medical supplies to treat a rising number of patients.

Monsoon floods have receded in some areas but aid agencies fear disease, food shortages and malnutrition may create new crises as people head back to their shattered towns and villages and try to rebuild their homes and lives.

"Whatever stock of medicines we have is about to finish and…

Petite Riviere de l'Artibonite, Haiti -- It was nearing the end of another hot, sunny day near Petite Riviere in the northern department, or province, of Artibonite, and Arnold Alcim� stood on his two-acre plot of land and shook his head in frustration.

Life as a farmer has never been more difficult than it is now, said the octogenarian, recalling earlier times when credit and new equipment were easier to get and when the land itself seemed to suffer less.

Though this seemingly lush…

Villagers evacuated from around Mount Sinabung volcano, wait at a shelter in Brastagi outside Medan, North Sumatra. The volcano has erupted for the first time in four centuries, sending smoke 1.5 km (about 5,000 feet) into the air. REUTERS/Tarmizy Harva

BRASTAGI, Indonesia, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Thousands of Indonesian villagers evacuated when a volcano erupted for the first time in four centuries returned home on Tuesday, but officials said it was uncertain whether the threat from the…

DAKAR, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) - Further heavy rains in Niger have caused the number of people displaced by flooding to soar from 111,000 last week to 198,740 this week, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which is calling on donors and aid agencies to urgently send shelter materials, blankets and mosquito nets.

"Response in rural areas has been slow thus far," the head of OCHA in Niger, Modibo Traoré, told IRIN. Flood-displaced families in remote the Diffa…