Ben Fox
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/ 16 May 2006

Pentagon hands over list of Guantánamo detainees

After years of secrecy, the Pentagon has disclosed the names, ages and home countries of everyone held at the isolated Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in south-eastern Cuba as a suspect in the United States-led war on terror. The US says it has held 759 males, ranging from teenagers to older than 70, from more than 40 countries, according to the list released late on Monday.

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/ 2 June 2005

Landslide crumbles California streets, homes

Haley Stevens was getting ready for school when the 14-year-old’s morning routine was shattered by the sounds of trees and wood-frame houses being torn from their foundation. The next thing she knew, her family was rushing out the door as a massive landslide bore down on her neighbourhood of hillside homes.