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Relatives and friends search in Cairo where the collapse smashed about 50 houses and apartment buildings. Many direct their anger at the government. Gamal Kamal Mohammed searched today for a brother who had left the family village years ago and headed to the big city to...(more)
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A 6.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Sichuan Province Saturday destroyed more than 100,000 homes and caused at least 28 deaths, China’s state-run media reported.
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AP - China has acknowledged for the first time that more than 19,000 students died in the massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 11 weeks 6 days 18 hours 48 minutes ago
GONAIVES, Haiti, Sept. 10 -- Caught in a traffic jam, Max Cosci pounded on his horn and cursed the world. He didn't have time for this. He needed to recover the body of Lionel Augustin. In a morgue in the stinking mud-lake that a month...(more)
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GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 14 -- As Texas Task Force 1 convoyed into the west end of Galveston Island Sunday morning on a search-and-rescue operation, it immediately had to dodge a herd of cows. Livestock roam free in the wake of Hurricane Ike. This is a...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 12 weeks 1 day 22 hours 48 minutes ago
As the wind howled and rain tore through the Haitian village of Messailler, Charles Amicy huddled on a dark staircase with his family.
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Firefighters and a squadron of aircraft launched a desperate daylight attack Friday to push back a wind-whipped wildfire that destroyed at least 100 homes in a wealthy enclave, ravaged a college campus and forced thousands to evacuate.
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MADRID, Spain (AP) _ Spain's Interior Ministry says 45 people are dead after an airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff from the Madrid airport.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 11 weeks 1 day 18 hours 48 minutes ago
The American Red Cross, which is plunging into debt to provide relief after back-to-back Gulf Coast hurricanes, said yesterday that it has asked Congress for $150 million in emergency funding to replenish its disaster relief reserves. Red Cross officials said the request is unusual for...(more)
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Airport security video of last month's plane crash in Madrid shows the aircraft just barely getting off the ground, then skidding and erupting in a ball of fire and column of black smoke.
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 28 weeks 1 day 20 hours 32 minutes ago
The numbers are almost too large to fathom, so many Americans stop trying. As bodies pile up in disaster after global disaster, even the most sympathetic souls can turn away.
Charities know this as "donor fatigue," but it might be more accurately described as disaster fatigue —...(more)
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submitted by pascal 29 weeks 1 day 6 hours 54 minutes ago
The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the death toll exceeded 12,000 in Sichuan province...(more)
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