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Kenya orders 'all available maize' bought for drought relief NAIROBI (AFP) Jan 06, 2006 Kenya's government on Friday ordered the immediate purchase of "all available maize in the country" in an emergency bid to stave off deaths from a searing drought that has killed dozens and placed millions at risk of famine across east Africa. Pakistan quake survivors 'stormed UN choppers' MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 06, 2006 The United Nations is probing reports that Pakistani quake victims forced their way onto two aid helicopters then made the crew airlift them from the disaster zone Friday, officials said. Hope fades for Indonesians missing after landslide SIJERUK, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 06, 2006 Indonesian rescuers on Friday unearthed more bodies buried in a landslide that levelled a village in Central Java, but warned they were unlikely to find any survivors among the scores still missing. |
Death toll in Indian cold snap rises to 111 LUCKNOW, India (AFP) Jan 06, 2006 A cold snap sweeping northern India has claimed nine more lives, taking the death toll to at least 111 since the start of December, an official said Friday. Swiss man arrested for pedophilia in Thailand BANGKOK (AFP) Jan 06, 2006 A 53-year-old Swiss national has been arrested in southern Thailand and charged with pedophilia and illegal detention of three underage Thai boys, police said Friday. Landslide hits bus, killing seven in quake-hit northern Pakistan ISLAMABAD (AFP) Jan 06, 2006 At least seven passengers were killed and 18 others injured overnight when a landslide triggered by heavy snowfall hit a bus on the Karakoram highway in quake-hit northern Pakistan, police said Friday. |
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Hope fades in search for survivors of Indonesian landslide SIJERUK, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 06, 2006 Indonesian rescuers on Friday unearthed more bodies buried in a landslide that levelled a village in Central Java, but warned they were unlikely to find any survivors among the scores still missing. Three children killed by tent blaze in quake-hit Pakistan MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 06, 2006 A tent housing earthquake survivors in Pakistani Kashmir caught fire Friday, killing three children, health officials said. Strong earthquake detected south of Panama WASHINGTON (AFP) Jan 06, 2006 A strong earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale was detected late Thursday in the Pacific Ocean 205 kilometersmiles) south of Panama, the US Geological Survey reported. The tremor did not generate a tsunami warning. |
Third victim recovered from German Alpine avalanche TRAUNSTEIN, Germany (AFP) Jan 05, 2006 The third and final missing member of a snowshoe expedition was found dead in the German Alps Thursday, three days after an avalanche, authorities said. Aid groups sound famine disaster warning for northern Kenya NAIROBI (AFP) Jan 05, 2006 International aid agencies on Thursday stepped up appeals for urgent intervention in drought-hit northern Kenya, warning of mass starvation and major famine in the region where dozens have already succumbed to hunger and related illness. UN warns of new disease threat to Pakistan quake survivors ISLAMABAD (AFP) Jan 05, 2006 Survivors of last year's huge earthquake in Pakistan are at increased risk of pneumonia after recent snow and rain caused the aid effort's first crisis of the winter, the United Nations said Thursday. |
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