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ALMATY March 13, 2010 Severe floods destroyed two dams in southern Kazakhstan. Around 20 people died and thousands had to be evacuated. The rescue operation is continuing.
Eastern Kazakhstan is experiencing heavy snow storms. A medical evacuation helicopter trying to rescue people crashed in stormy weather killing all eight people on board.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Feb 18, 2010 French President Nicolas Sarkozy became France’s first head of state to visit Haiti, which is a former French colony. He announced an aid package of nearly half a billion dollars on Wednesday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Feb 8, 2010 Hundreds of Haitian earthquake survivors protested in a suburb of their wrecked capital on Sunday.
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. USA Feb 08, 2010 At least five people were killed and 12 injured on Sunday when a massive explosion rocked a large gas-fired power plant being built in Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Fire officials said a natural gas leak caused the blast at the Kleen Energy Systems LLC facility.
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BEIRUT Feb 06, 2010 Search teams have found the main parts of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month killing all 90 people on board.
The Lebanese transport minister said the ship "Ocean Alert" was combing the Mediterranean Sea and taking pictures for search teams to have a better idea of the find.
Lebanese and international search teams have been scouring the sea along Beirut’s coast. The U.S. navy vessel, USS Ramage, located the flight recorders some 1,300 metres underwater on Jan. 27 but has yet to retrieve them.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Jan 24, 2010 Haiti mourned its dead on Saturday - hundreds gathered in a wrecked cathedral to honor those killed in the earthquake.
Prominent among the dead were Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot and Vicar General Charles Benoit.
Search-and-rescue teams have saved 132 people since the quake on Jan 12 .
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Jan 19, 2010 U.S. troops protected aid handouts and the United Nations sought extra peacekeepers in earthquake-shattered Haiti on Monday.
Marauding looters emptied wrecked shops. Meanwhile, desperate survivors began to receive medical care and air-dropped food.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Jan 17, 2010 Four days after the major earthquake, there is still chaos in Haiti’s capital city.
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GENEVA Jan 15, 2010 U.N. aid agencies will launch an emergency appeal for $550 million on Friday to help the survivors of the earthquake in Haiti.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Jan 15, 2010 Troops and planeloads of food and medicine streamed in to Haiti on Thursday to help the traumatized nation. The Haitian Red Cross said it believed 45,000 to 50,000 people had died and 3 million more were hurt or left homeless by the major earthquake.
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