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New York (AFP) Sept 8, 2012 - Two small tornadoes touched down in New York City on Saturday, stunning residents who associate twisters more with the US Midwest, the National Weather Service said.
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Mexico City (AFP) Sept 14, 2013 - Two tropical storms flanked Mexico on the Gulf and Pacific coasts on Friday, producing heavy rains, causing rivers to overflow and threatening to spark landslides, forecasters said.
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Fessenheim, France (AFP) Sept 5, 2012 - A steam leak due to an accidental chemical reaction on Wednesday at France's oldest nuclear plant led to two people being slightly burnt and renewed calls to reduce the country's heavy reliance on atomic energy.
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Banda Aceh, Indonesia (AFP) Sept 08, 2014 - Two critically-endangered Sumatran elephants have been found dead in Indonesia's Aceh province with their tusks missing, police said Monday.
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Kolkata (AFP) Sept 26, 2021 - Two fishermen were reported dead after a cyclone packing strong winds and rains barrelled into India's east coast late Sunday, forcing the evacuation of more than 200,000 people in three states to shelters.
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Guwahati, India (AFP) Sept 29, 2012 - Two rare rhinos brutally attacked by poachers this week in northeast India have died, veterinarians said Saturday, triggering protests at local authorities' failure to protect the animals.
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Bukavu, Dr Congo (AFP) Sept 18, 2020 - Two rangers were killed in DR Congo's famous Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, by a ragtag militia group, a top conservation official said Friday.
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Sarajevo (AFP) Sept 04, 2014 - Two miners were injured and eight others trapped on Thursday inside a Bosnian coal mine after an earthquake triggered a gas explosion and caved in two tunnels.
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 26, 2011 - Two young monks set themselves on fire Monday in an attempted self-immolation at a restive Tibetan Buddhist monastery in southwestern China, rights groups said, adding the pair survived.
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Islamabad (AFP) Sept 22, 2011 - Two million Pakistanis have fallen ill from diseases since monsoon rains left the southern region under several feet of water, the country's disaster authority said Thursday.
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Beirut (AFP) Sept 24, 2016 - Nearly two million civilians were without water in Syria's second city of Aleppo on Saturday after regime bombardment damaged one pumping station and rebels shut down another in retaliation, the UN said.
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Guwahati, India (AFP) Sept 26, 2012 - Rains hampered a military air operation to help flood victims in northeastern India, where more than two million people have been forced from their homes, officials said Wednesday.
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Bratislava (AFP) Sept 30, 2019 - Two people were killed and several others were injured Monday when strong winds uprooted trees in Central Europe, officials said, as the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia issued weather warnings.
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Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 23, 2010 - Militants Thursday blew up four oil tankers and three containers carrying fuel and other supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, killing two people, officials said.
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Kabul (AFP) Sept 15, 2012 - Insurgents armed with guns and rockets stormed a heavily fortified air field in Afghanistan, killing two US Marines and damaging aircraft in a major security breach at the camp where Prince Harry is deployed.
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London (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 - A Swiss woman died after being blown off a cliff and a man was killed by a falling tree Wednesday as record winds lashed Britain and Ireland.
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