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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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SF Gate
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Investigators examined the scorched hull of a jetliner Wednesday to determine what caused the plane to veer off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 29 people, officials said.
Sudan Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Abdel Hafez Abdel Rahim..
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BBC News
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Seventy people have been arrested in Australia in a nationwide operation to crack down on the use of images of child sex abuse posted on the internet.
The arrests, which include a policeman and several teachers, followed a six month investigation by po..
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MSNBC
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Water levels in the lake had been rising steadily and threatened to flood surrounding areas, prompting authorities to evacuate nearly 200,000 people already uprooted by the quake.
But Xinhua said with little rain forecast for the next several days, res..
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SF Gate
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China vowed Monday to prevent any outbreak of disease as it cleans up after last month's massive earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people.
Three weeks after the quake struck Sichuan province, the Health Ministry said authorities were working to ensu..
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BBC News
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Nepal is due to become a republic and end 240 years of royal rule.
A newly-elected assembly is to meet in the capital, Kathmandu, to abolish the monarchy but its key vote has been postponed for a few hours.
As the assembly was being sworn in on Tues..
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MSNBC
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Jiang said 5 million people were homeless and that the government was setting up temporary housing for victims unable to find shelter with relatives. He said nearly 280,000 tents had been shipped to the area and 700,000 more ordered and that factories wer..
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SF Gate
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The battle for survival here is as stark as anywhere in the earthquake zone.
Wang Guofei and his younger brother drove Tuesday morning to look for their mother in the rugged county of Beichuan, where at least 5,000 people have died as a result of Monda..
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SF Gate
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Rescue workers are digging through flattened homes and schools in a desperate search for victims of China's worst earthquake in three decades. Authorities say nearly 12,000 people were killed and more than 18,000 are missing.
The official Xinhua News A..
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MSNBC
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A powerful earthquake buried 900 students in central China on Monday and killed at least 107 people, as several schools and a water tower collapsed in the tremor, state media reported.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck central China, but sent thousan..
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BBC News
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The UN says its first aid flight has now arrived in Burma, bringing much needed relief to up to one million people made homeless by Cyclone Nargis.
The flights had been delayed because of Burma's reluctance to accept help, causing growing international..
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SF Gate
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U.N. peacekeepers and rescue workers searched for bodies Wednesday in the smoldering rubble after a Congolese jetliner careened off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 100 on the ground.
Airline officials s..
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BBC News
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At least 12 people have been killed in land clashes in west Kenya, police say.
Ten houses were razed to the ground and some people burnt to death, while others were shot dead, police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told the BBC.
It is unclear if the overnig..
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BBC News
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The diversion of water for the Beijing Olympics threatens the livelihoods of millions of people, a senior Chinese government official has said.
The official, An Qiyuan, from Shaanxi province, told the UK's Financial Times newspaper that people in north..
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BBC News
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French police have arrested more than 30 people in raids on housing estates near Paris, targeting the suspected ringleaders of riots last November.
Some 1,000 police took part in the pre-dawn sweep in and around Villiers-le-Bel, some 20km (12 miles) no..
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BBC News
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Danish police have arrested five people suspected of planning to attack a cartoonist who drew caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Denmark's intelligence agency said the arrests were made in the western Aarhus region at 0330 GMT "to prevent a murder li..
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SF Gate
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An express train crowded with holiday travelers derailed in southern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 58 people and leaving hundreds of terrified survivors to claw their way out of the wreckage in total darkness.
The train, which derailed at abo..
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CNN
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An earthquake on Friday rattled Indonesia's resort island of Bali, where thousands of people were gathering for a U.N. climate change conference. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The 5.4-magnitude tremor was centered 150 miles sou..
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BBC News
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A 68-year-old man has been arrested by French police on suspicion of murdering 18 people, most of them homosexuals, between 1980 and 2002, officials say.
The suspect, Nicolas Panard, is alleged to have killed 11 people in the Alsace region, four others..
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CNN
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More than 150 people have abandoned a sinking cruise liner that collided with an iceberg in Antarctic waters, a Chilean navy captain told CNN. Passenger ship Explorer reported problems near the South Shetland Islands, south of Argentina. The area is in a..
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