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Anger, grief after cliff collapses on slum in Egypt

a shared story    21 hours 37 minutes ago
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)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Haitian town hit hard by Ike; bodies on every street corner

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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.  comments (0)  | report problem


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Warning over India flood victims

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More than 250,000 people displaced by floods in the Indian state of Bihar could spend up to six months in temporary camps.  comments (0)  | report problem


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Death toll hits 43 in Cairo shanty town rockslide

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Reuters - The death toll from a rockfall that sent boulders crashing down on dozens of houses in a crowded Cairo shanty town has risen to 43, with more people still missing, Egyptian security sources said on Monday.  comments (0)  | report problem


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Worst storm in 48 years batters Caribbean islands

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Call for urgent help as hurricane Ike closes in on Cuba after wrecking 80% of homes in Turks and Caicos  comments (0)  | report problem


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Thousands stranded as floods cut off aid in Haiti

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Tropical storms have left thousands with no food or drinking water as another hurricane approaches  comments (0)  | report problem


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Disease fears for flood-devastated India, Nepal

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AFP - Hundreds of thousands of flood victims huddled into makeshift camps in India and Nepal face major disease outbreaks if help fails to reach them quickly, aid workers warned Tuesday.  comments (0)  | report problem


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Storm death toll in Haiti exceeds 500: UN

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AFP - The death toll in Haiti from Tropical Storm Hanna has exceeded 500 and is growing by the hour, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Saturday.  comments (0)  | report problem


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Rescuers can't get aid to starving Haitian city

a shared story    3 days 18 hours 36 minutes ago
AP - The convoy rumbled out of the U.N. base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since Tropical Storm Hanna drowned Gonaives in muddy water three days ago.  comments (0)  | report problem


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New Orleans authorities work to get 2m city residents home

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Authorities on America's Gulf Coast were yesterday struggling to orchestrate the orderly return of nearly 2m evacuees to New Orleans and low-lying areas of Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Gustav  comments (0)  | report problem


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Peacekeepers, aid workers race to feed Haitians

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AP - Receding waters in the starving Haitian city of Gonaives revealed the bodies of more victims in floods from Tropical Storm Hanna, as U.N. peacekeepers and aid groups struggled to feed thousands of people.  comments (0)  | report problem


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UN says storms add to hard-hit Haiti's food crisis

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Haiti's flooding from three major storms in as many weeks has left up to 200 people dead so far and ''washed away'' much progress toward dealing with its acute food crisis, the top-ranking U.N. humanitarian official said Friday.  comments (0)  | report problem


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