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Pakistan readies for more floods (AP)

Pakistani army soldiers in a helicopter rescue families stranded by flood water in Sanawan near Multan in central Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. U.S. Army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency aid. In the country's south, authorities began evacuating half-a-million people as the worst monsoon rains in decades threatened new destruction. (AP Photo/Khallid Tanveer)AP - Authorities were preparing for flooding Friday in southern Pakistan as the worst monsoon rains in decades left an ever lengthier trail of death and destruction in a nation already suffering Islamist violence and an anemic economy.


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