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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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Militants said they blew up two more oil pipelines Monday in southern Nigeria and called for former President Jimmy Carter and actor George Clooney to help mediate an end to the crisis. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, said i..
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CNN
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A section of a bridge under construction in southern Vietnam collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 52 workers and injuring 97 others, officials said. The bridge was being built across the Hau River, a branch of the Mekong River, in the southern city of Ca..
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BBC News
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Forests fires that have ravaged southern Europe during the past month were some of the worst on record, the European Commission has said.
More than 3,000 sq km (1,200 sq miles) of forest had already burned this year, almost as much as in the whole of 2..
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BBC News
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Suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand have burnt down three schools and shot and wounded a teacher...
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SF Gate
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Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a "tsunami" rolling through a river, a scientist said Thursday. No one was injured in the remote region.
Glacier scientist Gino Casassa said the melting of th..
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BBC News
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At least 242 people have been reported dead after a powerful cyclone battered southern Bangladesh, levelling villages and uprooting trees.
Officials have warned that the death toll could rise and that the extent of the damage is still unclear.
Hundr..
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BBC News
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Police in Australia, New Zealand and the US are searching for the parents of a three-year-old girl abandoned at a train station in southern Australia.
Qian Xun Xue - known as Pumpkin until she was identified on Monday - was found in Melbourne on Saturd..
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MSNBC
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Sousa said he did not know whether police in southern Portugal had received the remaining results from forensic tests carried out in Britain.
Under Portuguese law police are not allowed to reveal details of current investigations.
The McCanns say Ma..
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BBC News
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Police in southern Italy say they are arresting dozens of suspected members of rival Mafia gangs linked to the killing of six Italian men in Germany.
Authorities are investigating family vendetta killings which have been going on for at least a decade..
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CNN
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Tropical Storm Pabuk moved toward China's southern coast Thursday after triggering landslides that killed 11 people in the Philippines and disrupting power supplies in southern Taiwan.
Pabuk was downgraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression..
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CNN
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A mentally ill man wielding a wrench wounded 18 children and a teacher in a kindergarten in southern China before fleeing on a motorcycle and trying to stab himself to death, state media reported Saturday.
The man charged into the school Friday afterno..
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CNN
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Search teams said Wednesday there were no survivors from a plane that crashed in southern Cambodia early this week with 22 people aboard, including South Korean and Czech tourists, officials said.
The Russian-made An-24 aircraft operated by PMT Air cra..
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BBC News
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Torrential rains and gale-force winds have led to the deaths of more than 200 people in the coastal city of Karachi in southern Pakistan.
Some 43 people were killed by the storms on Saturday afternoon, while the other bodies were recovered on Sunday...
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CNN
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The disappearance of 4-year-old Madeleine McCann, the British girl who vanished from her hotel room in southern Portugal while her parents dined 50 meters away, has captivated hearts and triggered debate around the world.
Were her parents negligent to..
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News.com.au
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SEVERAL thousand people were evacuated after a volcano erupted in southern Colombia, triggering an avalanche that swelled rivers and threatened local communities.
Tumbling waters carrying trees, rocks and mud forced around 5000 people to leave their ho..
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USA Today
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Tuesday when it swept through a nursing home in southern Russia where a night watchman ignored two alarms and only reported the blaze after he saw flames, emergency officials said.
It took firefighters nearly an hour to get from the nearest sizable tow..
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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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