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Haiti's rubble will fill 1,000 trucks a day, for over 1,000 daysPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 22, 2010 The team included women in skirts shoveling for all it's worth, but it barely made a dent in the mountain of debris that was once a shopping center in Haiti's quake-devastated capital. While it may not seem so, judging from the absence of heavy equipment at the site, removing rubble is an urgent matter, and not only because of the many bodies still trapped under buildings in ruin throughout Port-au-Prince. Massive mounds of rubble are blocking drains and canals that are crucial in preventing flo ... read more |
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Funchal, Portugal (AFP) Feb 22, 2010Emergency workers on Portugal's island of Madeira will press on with rescue work Monday after the flash flooding that killed at least 42 people, but have warned that the toll will likely rise. Troops and other rescue workers spent Sunday digging through mud-filled houses and streets after the flash floods' torrents of brown water swept some people to their death, demolished houses and overtu ... more  
Los Angeles (AFP) Feb 22, 2010Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said he feels love in his heart for China, despite his concerns about Beijing's cultural "suppression" in his homeland. "Certainly. We have to practice that," the Buddhist monk said in an interview broadcast Monday with CNN talk-show host Larry King, who asked him if he loves the Chinese. "Sometimes you see some of these hardliners' sort of ... more  
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Feb 22, 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed ElBaradei got a hero's welcome when he returned to his native Egypt as a possible contender for the presidency, a politically explosive challenge to the country's power elite. The former head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency has repeatedly called for democratic reforms in his homeland and has made a point of not ruling out that he will cha ... more |
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Fears for motorists in flooded Madeira carparkFunchal, Portugal (AFP) Feb 22, 2010 For more than 30 hours, rescuers have pumped millions of litres of water and mud from an underground car park in Madeira's main town Funchal, fearing motorists were trapped there during flash floods that have devastated the Portuguese island. "There are people down there for sure. I escaped in time but I heard cries and saw people carried away by the waters," Norberto Vieira, a motorist whose car was still stuck in the Anadia shopping centre car park, told AFP Monday. Vieira had a lucky escape: ... read more |
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