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BISHKEK (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake killed at least 70 people in Kyrgyzstan and leveled a village in the remote mountains of the Central Asian state, the emergencies ministry said on Monday. The earthquake, measuring 6.3 according to the U.S. Geological Survey, jolted an area...(more)
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SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Gov. Schwarzenegger is calling up 1,500 National Guard troops to deploy to the Southern California wildfires....
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Myanmar's foreign minister says the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Nargis could reach 10,000.
Foreign diplomats said Nyan Win made the comment at a Monday briefing given to them and representatives of U.N. and international aid agencies.
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Coast Guard workers who monitor ship traffic in San Francisco Bay did not warn the crew of the Cosco Busan that it was about to sideswipe the base of a Bay Bridge tower last week, or even that the ship was near the obstacle, federal investigators...(more)
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AP - Torrential rains in the Algerian desert created flash floods that drowned 29 people and injured more than 80 others, an Algerian health official reported Thursday.
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AP - The official death toll from four storms that ravaged Haiti this summer has nearly doubled to some 800 people, authorities said Friday.
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Cuban markets offered a dwindling selection of food and a growing expanse of empty shelves on Wednesday as food shortages the government warned about after hurricanes Gustav and Ike became increasingly evident.
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In this tiny Haitian town flooded by Hurricane Ike, the grim reality set in Sunday morning as the bodies of a dozen children lay dead on a concrete slab.
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A Metrolink commuter train believed to be carrying up to 350 people collided with a freight train Friday, killing two people ...
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GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- A colossal Hurricane Ike menaced the darkened Texas coast early Saturday, ensuring a sleepless night for thousands who huddled and waited to find out if a gamble to face the storm head-on could cost them their lives....
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Tropical storms have left thousands with no food or drinking water as another hurricane approaches
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The aerial view for Haiti's newly installed prime minister was brutal Tuesday: a storm-ravaged landscape stretching out for miles, flooded rice fields, washed-out cities and survivors battling rivers of mud.
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