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SF Gate
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Massive flooding across a broad stretch of southern China killed almost 60 people and forced 1.3 million others from their homes, state media reported Monday.
People were forced to flee their homes across nine provinces, including Sichuan, still reelin..
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CNN
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Severe weather caused travel chaos across Britain on Monday as strong winds and rain led to dozens of cancellations and delays at airports, ports and railway stations. The weather led to 41 flight cancellations at London's Heathrow Airport and 13 cancella..
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BBC News
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Firefighting teams from across Europe are continuing to battle forest fires raging across southern Greece, which have claimed at least 63 lives.
Several EU countries have sent their own firefighters, backed by planes and helicopters, to help tackle the..
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USA Today
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Forest fires that have taken at least 44 lives rage uncontrolled across vast areas of southern Greece, the fire department says. The skies around Athens are red and ashes fall in the center of the capital as wind drives the flames across the parched lands..
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BBC News
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The heaviest snow in decades is continuing to cause chaos across China ahead of the busy Lunar New Year holiday, state media have reported.
Road and rail links have been paralysed, thwarting travellers trying to return home for the festivities.
A bl..
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BBC News
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The first regular rail service for more than 50 years has begun operating across the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea.
The flower-strewn cargo train, carrying raw materials for an industrial zone, left South Korea early in the mor..
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CBS News
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A powerful earthquake off western Indonesia triggered warnings of a potentially destructive tsunami across much of the Indian Ocean region Wednesday, meteorological agencies said.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the underwater quake had a preliminary m..
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CBS News
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Forest fires that have taken at least 44 lives rage uncontrolled across vast areas of southern Greece, the fire department says. The skies around Athens are red and ashes fall in the center of the capital as wind drives the flames across the parched lands..
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MSNBC
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Forest fires that have taken at least 44 lives rage uncontrolled across vast areas of southern Greece, the fire department says. The skies around Athens are red and ashes fall in the center of the capital as wind drives the flames across the parched lands..
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BBC News
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Celebrations are taking place across Pakistan to commemorate the 60th anniversary of independence from the UK and the creation of the country.
President Musharraf marked the anniversary by staunchly defending sovereignty and calling on the nation to un..
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CNN
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Hundreds of sections of embankments along China's third-longest river have become loose, threatening the homes of millions of people after three weeks of deadly floods across the country, state media said on Tuesday. Torrential rain has wrought havoc acro..
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CNN
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Men lugging shiny stereos, new tires and heavy bundles on their backs stream like ants across the Friendship Bridge, where smugglers lower contraband from Paraguay on ropes to Brazilian runners on the riverbank below.
No one checks passports and anyone..
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CNN
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North and South Korea will send trains across their heavily-armed border on Thursday for the first time since their 1950-1953 war, a move Seoul sees as a milestone in reconciliation.
Celebrities, politicians and even a conductor on the last train to cr..
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CNN
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Drug traffickers will face divine justice for the scourge of illegal narcotics across Latin America, Pope Benedict XVI warned Saturday, telling dealers that "human dignity cannot be trampled upon in this way."
Traffickers must "reflect on the grave har..
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Times Online
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A GREAT coal rush is under way across China on a scale not seen anywhere since the 19th century...
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