As ITN went to press, the State Department had travel warnings on 30 destinations: Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Mexico, Chad, Haiti, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Guinea, Nepal, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Georgia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Philippines, Algeria, Lebanon, Iran, Kenya, Colombia, Eritrea, Central African Republic, Yemen, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Mauritania and Mali. 

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• Prolonged monsoon rains in Myanmar and Bangladesh caused floods and mudslides that killed more than 100 people in mid June. In Rakhine state in northern Myanmar, bridges and a key road were washed away. Landslides destroyed several villages in Myanmar and across the border in the Cox Bazar district of Bangladesh. 

• In southern China’s Jiangxi province, there were over 230 people killed, 109 missing and over 100,000 displaced after the Fu River overflowed its banks and broke through...

Guinea’s interim government was successful in holding elections on June 29 without violence — considered the country’s first free vote since independence from France in 1958. The interim government had taken power after the junta run by Captain Camara fell apart in January 2010. 

Camara’s junta government was blamed for the massacre at a stadium of protesters in Conakry on Sept. 28, 2009, that killed at least 28 — rights groups claim as many as 150 — amid other atrocities (rape and...