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/ 17 January 2010
Haitian earthquake survivors fought over food and water and others fled their wrecked capital on Saturday as the US rolled out its relief effort.
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/ 16 January 2010
As many as 200Â 000 people died in the earthquake that devastated Haiti and three-quarters of the capital will need to be rebuilt.
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/ 15 January 2010
Thousands of people injured in Haiti’s massive earthquake spent a third night twisted in pain, lying on sidewalks and waiting for help.
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/ 14 January 2010
Traumatised Haitians slept out in parks and streets on Thursday, fearing aftershocks to the earthquake that flattened homes and buried people.
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/ 6 September 2009
Thousands of Venezuelans marched on Saturday in protests against President Hugo Chávez while thousands of his supporters held their own rallies.
Security forces tortured scores in a sweep against the mainly ethnic Somali population of remote north-east Kenya, a rights group said on Monday.
Pirates were taking two European-owned tankers to Somali coastal havens on Friday and are likely to demand ransoms soon.
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/ 2 February 2009
Kenya began a week of mourning on Monday for at least 131 people who died in a petrol tanker blaze and another fire in a Nairobi supermarket.
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/ 8 December 2008
Somalia is a shattered nation and the most dangerous place on earth for aid workers, a US-based human rights group said on Monday.
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/ 18 November 2008
A Saudi oil supertanker hijacked by pirates has reached the coast of north Somalia, a regional maritime group said on Tuesday.