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Cholera now in Haiti capital, rapid spread feared (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

A resident waits inside his tent as Tropical Storm Tomas arrives at Port-au-Prince, November 4, 2010. REUTERS/ Eduardo MunozReuters - A cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 600 people in Haiti has gained a foothold in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince and is expected to spread widely and quickly in the…

Haiti scrambles to prepare for feared hurricane hit (Reuters)

November 1st, 2010

Reuters - Government officials and aid partners in earthquake- and cholera-ravaged Haiti scrambled on Monday to prepare crowded quake survivor camps and coastal towns for a possible hit by a…

8 feared dead after cargo plane crash near Kabul (AP)

October 12th, 2010

AP - A cargo plane crashed into mountains east of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday, with initial reports saying all eight people aboard were killed, an Afghan airport official said.

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Hundreds feared dead in Mexico mudslide (AP)

September 28th, 2010

Up to 1,000 people were feared dead after a hillside collapsed on Tuesday in southern Mexico.(AFP/Graphics)AP - A hillside collapsed on a rural Mexican community on Tuesday and the region’s governor said hundreds of people are feared dead.


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Mexican governor: hundreds feared dead in slide (AP)

September 28th, 2010

AP - A hillside collapsed on a rural Mexican community on Tuesday and the region’s governor said hundreds of people are feared dead.

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Congo boat catches fire, capsizes; 200 feared dead (AP)

September 5th, 2010

AP - A riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, and 200 people were feared dead, a survivor said Sunday. A local official…

Nigeria: Feared gang leader believed dead, again (AP)

August 25th, 2010

A scramble of power cables in Oshodi district of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, in 2003. Electricity workers in Nigeria on Wednesday launched an indefinite strike over wages, a day ahead of a major speech by President Goodluck Jonathan on reforming the ailing power sector.(AFP/File/Pius Otomi Ekpei)AP - Police believe unknown gunmen killed a Nigerian gang leader accused of helping rig the 2007 election in the nation’s oil-rich and violence-wracked southern delta, authorities said Wednesday, though…

More than 20 deaths feared after blasts in Uganda (AP)

July 11th, 2010

A man attends a injured women , Sunday, July 11, 2010, after a bomb went off in a restaurant in Kampala's Kabalagala district, named Ethiopian Village. The first verbal police report on the scene speaks of two killed and several injured, including possible two western guests of the restaurant. The bomb went off shortly before the break at the world cup final match taking place in South Africa. Many people gathered at the restaurant at this time to watch the football game. (AP Photo/Marcv Hoafer)AP - Bombs exploded at two sites in Uganda’s capital late Sunday as people watched the World Cup final on TV, and officials at the scene put the death toll…

Plane crashes in India, 159 feared dead, 7 alive (AP)

May 22nd, 2010

Indian firefighters carry a child, reportedly a survivor, out of the debris of an Air India plane that crashed in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Saturday, May 22, 2010. The plane arriving from Dubai crashed Saturday morning after it overshot a runway while trying to land in southern India, and officials feared as many as 160 people on board were killed. (AP Photo) ** INDIA OUT **AP - An Air India Express plane trying to land in the rain at a tricky hilltop airport in southern India overshot the runway, crashed and burst into flames at…

Plane crashes in India, 158 feared dead, 8 alive (AP)

May 22nd, 2010

Indian firefighters carry a child, reportedly a survivor, out of the debris of an Air India plane that crashed in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Saturday, May 22, 2010. The plane arriving from Dubai crashed Saturday morning after it overshot a runway while trying to land in southern India, and officials feared as many as 160 people on board were killed. (AP Photo) ** INDIA OUT **AP - An Air India Express plane trying to land in the rain at a tricky hilltop airport in southern India overshot the runway, crashed and burst into flames at…