The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Dhaka - Bangladesh will need food aid for 20 million people after the worst flooding in 15 years destroyed crops and submerged more than 60 per cent of the populous, impoverished country, government officials say. At least 589 people have died in flooding caused by monsoon rains and more than 30 million have been displaced. The country's food and disaster management minister, Chowdhury Kamal Ibn Yusouf, has vowed to help everyone, promising "no one will die of starvation." But he says international aid will be needed to feed almost one-seventh of the country's 140 million people. Asuncion - Survivors of a deadly supermarket fire in Paraguay that killed at least 323 people say locked exit doors prevented the escape of some people. Police and witnesses said that guards locked the doors to keep shoppers from the fleeing the scene with looted goods. Witnesses told police a gas canister exploded to start the fire. Islamabad - Several suspected al-Qaeda members have been arrested in Pakistan over the past week, including a high-ranking member with a $25-million bounty on his head, government officials said. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian, was the suspect with the multimillion-dollar bounty imposed by the United States government. One of the arrests was made at the airport in the eastern city of Lahore as a suspect tried to leave the country.
