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CNN
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Hundreds of Greek fire victims crowded into banks to receive up to $17,732 in aid promised by the government, which has been accused of mishandling the disaster. With national elections scheduled for September 16 there is speculation that the government's..
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MSNBC
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Beijing Olympics organizers also said in a statement that the relay's Sichuan leg would be delayed "to support the disaster relief efforts." Originally planned for next month, the leg now will take place just before the start of the Aug. 8 games.
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SF Gate
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In the heart of a dense tropical jungle that is the home to wild elephants and 28 indigenous groups, heavy machinery shudders from the depths of a vast mountain while hammers pound on steel tunnel walls.
Teams of workers clad in rubber boots, threadbar..
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SF Gate
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Thousands of fishermen, soldiers and volunteers struggled Sunday to clean up an oil spill that has caused an environmental disaster in South Korea. It has blackened once-scenic beaches, coated birds and oysters in sludge and driven away tourists with its..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Network Rail was today fined £4m for "systemic and unacceptable" safety failures that led to the 1999 Paddington rail disaster.
Thirty-one people died and more than 400 were injured when a local Thames Trains service went through a red signal and coll..
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NPR
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The solemn ritual of burying the dead began Wednesday in a Siberian coal-mining town, where at least 107 people died in an explosion and fire Monday. It was Russia's worst mining disaster in living memory.
Officials say the explosion that ripped throug..
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CBC
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Residents on Australia's northwest coast prepared Saturday for another cyclone to hit, less than 72 hours after a storm swept through a remote mining construction camp, killing two people.
Forecasters said the latest cyclone, dubbed Jacob, could make l..
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Alter Net
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It has been the strangest war. It had hardly begun in 2003 when President George W. Bush announced on May 1 that it was over: the American mission had been accomplished. Months passed before Washington and London realized that the conflict had not finishe..
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