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Abidjan (AFP) Sept 14, 2013 - Three members of the Ivorian security forces have been killed in Yamoussoukro, the administrative capital of Ivory Coast, in two separate attacks by armed gangs, officials said Saturday.
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Ottawa (AFP) Sept 3, 2008 - Three Canadian soldiers were killed and five wounded in an insurgent attack on their armored vehicle in Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday.
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 12, 2010 - Three people were in serious condition in hospital in eastern China on Sunday after setting themselves on fire to protest over being forcibly evicted, state media reported.
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Jeju, South Korea (AFP) Sept 9, 2012 - An unlikely and unique cradle of biodiversity that runs the length of the world's most heavily-militarised border is being threatened by encroaching development, conservation experts say.
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Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 3, 2022 - Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate their homes in northern California on Friday as a wildfire spread rapidly across more than 1,000 acres in extremely hot conditions.
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Tando Allahyar, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 17, 2011 - In Pakistan's fertile south, a grim-faced soldier found himself in a standoff with 100 flood-stricken protesters demanding help for their communities marooned by the surging water.
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Tokyo (AFP) Sept 6, 2011 - Thousands of people remained stranded in western Japan Tuesday as the death toll from a fierce typhoon rose to 42, heaping more misery on a nation recovering from the March earthquake and tsunami.
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Ojen, Spain (AFP) Sept 1, 2012 - Almost 4,000 people who fled a deadly forest fire in mountains near the Spanish resort of Marbella returned home on Saturday after the blaze was brought under control, local officials said.
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Mahebourg, Mauritius (AFP) Sept 12, 2020 - Mauritians on Saturday marched for the second time in a month as public anger festers over the government's handling of a devastating oil spill off the coast.
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Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 22, 2014 - Hong Kong students on Monday began a week-long boycott of classes, gathering in their thousands for what democracy activists say will be a wider campaign of civil disobedience against China's refusal to grant the city unfettered democracy.
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Sydney (AFP) Sept 7, 2008 - Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of land clearing in the country's northeast, while millions of birds and reptiles are also perishing, conservation group WWF said Sunday.
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 12, 2017 - Hurricane Irma has left about 17,000 people in desperate need of shelter and has devastated hospitals and health clinics across the eastern Caribbean islands, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
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Houston, Texas (AFP) Sept 11, 2008 - Roads and bridges leading from the US Gulf Coast were jammed Thursday as hundreds of thousands fled in a mandatory evacuation of parts of Houston, as deadly Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas metropolis.
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Freetown (AFP) Sept 23, 2015 - Thousands of people were going into a second week in makeshift camps after being made homeless by severe flooding as Sierra Leone was buffeted by torrential rain, the authorities said Wednesday.
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Jakarta (AFP) Sept 15, 2013 - Thousands of villagers fled Sunday after a volcano erupted on Indonesia's Sumatra island spewing rocks and red-hot ash onto surrounding villages, officials said.
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Yangon (AFP) Sept 22, 2021 - Thousands have fled a town in west Myanmar after days of fighting between anti-junta dissidents and the military, during which soldiers bombed civilian homes, residents and media said Wednesday.
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