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Guardian Unlimited
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Residents who have suffered the worst of June's extraordinary rains and floods are on alert for potential looting in areas where homes have been left empty and cars abandoned.
South Yorkshire police said extra-high-visibility patrols had been brought i..
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Mail & Guardian Online
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A man died from injuries sustained when he was beaten by outraged Motherwell residents after he raped a five-year-old girl, Port Elizabeth police said on Tuesday...
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MSNBC
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Rescue crews were sent Friday to find a commercial airliner carrying 46 people that disappeared in southwestern Venezuela. Officials feared the worst after residents reported hearing a crash in the mountains.
The flight was reported missing 30 minutes..
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CNN
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The Italian army was called in early Monday to help clear piles of trash that went uncollected for more than two weeks in the Naples area, while residents in a city suburb set up roadblocks to protest the reopening of a garbage dump. Before dawn, army eng..
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CBS News
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Three powerful earthquakes jolted Indonesia in less than 24 hours, triggering tsunami warnings, damaging hundreds of houses and sending panicked residents fleeing to high ground. Rescuers feared some victims were trapped beneath the rubble.
The death t..
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MSNBC
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Residents warned not to let guard down
Torrential rains, battering waves and a storm surge of six to eight feet above normal were forecast, with some intensification possible before landfall.
“We often see that when a storm weakens, people let dow..
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FOX News
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Britain has asked the United States to release five British residents from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Foreign Office said Tuesday.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has written to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asking that the..
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BBC News
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The UK government has requested the release of five British residents from US custody at Guantanamo Bay.
The men are not British citizens but lived in the UK before they were detained by the US.
The request is a change of policy for the government w..
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BBC News
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Residents near the capital of Indonesia's Aceh province have disabled a tsunami warning system.
The residents cut the power to the siren on a tsunami warning tower by throwing rocks at it.
They were angered by a false alarm that sent thousands of pe..
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FOX News
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A moderate earthquake rattled parts of southeast England Saturday morning, toppling chimneys from houses and rousing residents from their beds.
Several thousand people were left without power after the quake in the county of Kent, but there were no imm..
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CNN
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A couple in China's southwest won headlines by demanding more than $600,000 from property developers seeking to relocate them, but residents elsewhere are engaged in far more typical struggles -- over amounts just a fraction of that sum.
In Gongtan, a..
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CNN
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An earth embankment around a cesspool suddenly collapsed Tuesday, spewing a river of sewage and mud that killed three people and forced residents to flee from the village of Umm Naser in northern Gaza, officials said.
A local official blamed shoddy inf..
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CBC
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A storm blanketing B.C.'s southern coastal areas with up to 30 centimetres of snow was blamed for at least one death Sunday, as well as power outages affecting thousands of residents in the Lower Mainland...
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Canada.com
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One of the largest water warnings in the province's history was issued Thursday for Greater Vancouver's two million residents after torrential rains triggered dozens of landslides into the region's reservoirs, turning tap water cloudy and brown...
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