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Looters hand back goods as Chile mourns quake dead
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 10:21

CONCEPCION: Looters in Chile have handed back stolen goods worth two million dollars, the government said, as the country mourned the hundreds killed

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Ships freed from ice nightmare
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 09:53

STOCKHOLM: Icebreakers have freed dozens of ships from thick ice in the Baltic Sea, officials said yesterday, ending the ordeal of thousands of passengers and crew stranded in freezing conditions off the Swedish coast.

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Troops called to halt Chile quake looters
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Monday, 01 March 2010 14:53

Troops fired teargas and imposed a curfew Monday to stop looters running off with trolleyloads of goods from the wreckage of Chile's quake as rescuers scrabbled through rubble for survivors.

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Police: 15 dead, 57 buried by Indonesian landslide
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 11:42

Indonesia – Rescuers used heavy digging equipment Wednesday to clear a muddy landslide that killed at least 15 people and left 57 buried on Indonesia's main island

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Connecticut power plant blast leaves two people dead
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 23:35

A huge explosion has rocked a gas-fired power plant in the US state of Connecticut, killing at least two people and leaving others injured.

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Afghan police "mistakenly" kill seven boys
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 22:50

KABUL, Feb 6 (KUNA) -- Afghan policemen "mistakenly" gunned down seven boys in the border region with the neighbouring Pakistan on Saturday, officials here said.

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Pilot in Lebanon crash 'made strange turn'Pilot in Lebanon crash 'made strange turn'
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 08:04

Beirut: The pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut performed "a very fast and strange turn before disappearing from the radar"

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World | Other World Stories Taiwanese sculptor carves 'world's tiniest' tiger
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 00:09

Taipei: A Taiwanese man has tamed the tiger, reducing the Chinese zodiac animal into a sculpture smaller than a grain of rice that's fully visible only through a magnifying glass.

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Earthquake leaves Haiti ‘worse than a war zone’
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010 15:28

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Dazed and injured Haitians sat on darkened streets pleading for help Wednesday and untold numbers were trapped in tons of rubble brought down by the strongest earthquake to hit this poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years.

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