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Death toll in Kenyan drought climbs to 40 NAIROBI (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 The death toll from hunger and related illness in drought-hit northeastern Kenya has risen to at least 40 as more malnourished children perish, hospital and aid officials said Wednesday, amid new appeals for urgent help to avert a major famine in the region. Tears and disbelief as Indonesian landslide survivors gather SIJERUK, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 "Where are my children? Where are my children?" screamed Sumarah, a domestic worker from Indonesia's capital as she arrived back at her landslide-smashed village in Central Java. Malawi floods leave 40,000 homeless BLANTYRE (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Floods in southern Malawi last week destroyed the livelihoods of some 8,000 farming families, leaving about 40,000 people homeless, a government official said Wednesday. |
Desperate Kenyan nomads cull starving cattle in drought-hit north GARSESALA, Kenya (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 As the grim toll from hunger and thirst mounts in Kenya's drought-stricken northeast, frantic cattle-dependent nomads are slaughtering their starving herds in a bid to stave off famine. New Orleans colleges to reopen this week NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Thousands of students and faculty are returning to New Orleans' eight colleges and universities this week for the first time since hurricane Katrina flooded the city four months ago. Quarry landslide kills four women in Bangladesh DHAKA (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Four women were killed in a landslide in northern Bangladesh while they quarried stone illegally from a hill, officials said Wednesday. |
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Strong earthquake off coast of Mexico WASHINGTON (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 A strong earthquake measuring 6.7 degrees on the Richter scale occurred early Wednesday off the coast of Mexico in the Gulf of California, with no immediate reports of damage, the US Geological Survey said on its website. Indonesian landslide buries village, 200 feared dead CIJERUK, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 A landslide unleashed by heavy rains in Indonesia's mountainous Central Java Wednesday has killed 16 people but up to 200 were feared dead, police said, as rescuers scrambled to find survivors. Earthquake detected off Mexico STRASBOURG (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale was detected at 08:32 GMT in the Gulf of California off the Mexican coast, the Strasbourg-based Observatory of Earth Sciences said Wednesday. |
Death toll from Yemen landslide rises to 65 SANAA (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 The death toll from a landslide that devastated a Yemeni village has reached 65, and rescue operations have wound up after all the missing were accounted for, the state news agency Saba said Wednesday. Relief flights resume in wintry Pakistan quake zone MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Helicopters resumed relief flights in earthquake-ravaged Pakistan Wednesday after three days of rain and snow, as authorities said many survivors were descending from the mountains. 200 feared dead in Indonesian landslide JAKARTA (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Some 200 people were feared dead in a landslide triggered by heavy rains that buried scores of houses in Indonesia's Central Java province Wednesday, police said as rescuers scrambled to find survivors. |
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