Sudan 'on verge of mass starvation'
Aid agencies were today warning of looming famine and a humanitarian crisis in Darfur, western Sudan, where up to a million people have been driven from their homes by government-backed militias.
The arid desert region is hit by a cyclical 'hunger gap' from April until harvest-time in October, but attacks on towns and villages by the 'Janjawid' mounted Arab militias, which human rights observers say include members of the armed forces, have exacerbated the crisis this year.
UK mulled using birds for bio-war after WWII
Britain considered training pigeons to deliver biological weapons after World War II but decided the birds had outlived their usefulness in battle, government files released last week show.
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