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Strong typhoon blows for Philippines; 1,000s flee (AP)

October 17th, 2010

A pedestrian jumps over a puddle in a flooded street in Manila on October 16, 2010. Typhoon Megi gathered strength as it barrelled towards the northern Philippines on Sunday, with authorities warning of possible forced evacuations.(AFP/Jay Directo)AP - The strongest typhoon to threaten the Philippines in recent years menacingly roared toward the country’s north Sunday, prompting thousands of villagers to flee to safety and sparking massive…

Thousands of Yemenis flee battle with al-Qaida (AP)

September 20th, 2010

Yemeni policemen guard the state security court in the capital San'a, Yemen Monday, Sept. 20, 2010, as the trial of four al-Qaida suspects takes place. The four, including a Yemeni-German teenager, have been brought to trial in Yemen to face accusations they plotted attacks on tourists, binternational/b institutions and security forces. (AP Photo)AP - Thousands of people have fled a village in southern Yemen where security forces are laying siege to al-Qaida militants, a security official said Monday, signaling an escalation in…

Official: Honduran helped massacre survivor flee (AP)

September 3rd, 2010

Unidentified people sit next to the coffin containing the body of Miguel Angel Carcamo during his funeral at his home in the town of El Guante Cedros, Honduras, Thursday Sept. 2, 2010.  Carcamo was one of the 72 migrants who were killed, allegedly by the Zetas drug gang, in August in northern Mexico while trying to reach the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)AP - A Honduran who survived the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico helped untie the only other survivor — a wounded Ecuadorean — and the two fled together, an…

China landslide toll rises to 700; Pakistanis flee (AP)

August 10th, 2010

Explosives are set off to clear away debris stemming the flow of a river after a mud slide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - The death toll from landslides in northwestern China more than doubled to 702 Tuesday, as rescue crews in three Asian countries struggled to reach survivors from flooding that…

Hundreds flee Pakistan floods, as criticism grows (AP)

August 5th, 2010

Michael Phelps swims in the men's 200m butterfly at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Complex in Irvine, California. Phelps' lack of focus in wake of the 2009 World Championships drove his coach Bob Bowman to distraction. But Bowman thinks the virtual vacation was vital to the swimming star's continuing career.(AFP/Getty Images/Harry How)AP - Hundreds of people loaded down with possessions were fleeing floods in Pakistan’s most populous province Thursday as the worst monsoon rains in a generation triggered fresh chaos.


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Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee (AP)

July 29th, 2010

A local resident throws water from a bucket on a peat fire in a forest near the town of Shatura, some 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Peat swamps started burning in central Russia following an unprecedented heat wave. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog…

Uzbeks flee Kyrgyzstan, seek safety at border (AP)

June 14th, 2010

** CAPTION ADDITION, ADDS ID ** An Uzbek woman who identified herself only as Khadicha, and who fled from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh after her husband was killed and house burned down stands in line in no-man's-land near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk waiting for permission to cross into Uzbekistan, Monday, June 14, 2010. Tens of thousands of refugees fled pogroms that began last week in southern Kyrgyzstan. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)AP - Standing behind barbed wire with other Uzbek refugees, the woman tearfully raised her hands in a Muslim prayer Monday for her dead husband. She had left his body…

75,000 Uzbeks flee ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

June 13th, 2010

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP **  Ethnic Uzbeks residences burn after being torched by Kyrgyz men, in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, June 13, 2010. In Jalal-Abad on Sunday, thousands of Kyrgyz men brandishing sticks, metals bars and hunting rifles gathered at the city's horse racing track and marched out to burn Uzbek property while frightened police stayed away.  (AP Photo/Zarip Toroyev)AP - Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages and slaughtered their residents Sunday in the worst ethnic rioting this Central Asian nation has seen in 20 years, sending more than 75,000…

Uzbekistan: 75,000 Uzbeks flee riots in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

June 13th, 2010

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP **  Ethnic Uzbeks residences burn after being torched by Kyrgyz men, in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday, June 13, 2010. In Jalal-Abad on Sunday, thousands of Kyrgyz men brandishing sticks, metals bars and hunting rifles gathered at the city's horse racing track and marched out to burn Uzbek property while frightened police stayed away.  (AP Photo/Zarip Toroyev)AP - Kyrgyz mobs burned Uzbek villages, slaughtered their residents and looted police stations Sunday in the worst ethnic rioting this Central Asian nation has seen in 20 years, sending…

Oops, wrong house: Workmen dig up trees, then flee (AP)

May 6th, 2010

Peter Collard poses for a photo in his damaged yard in Brisbane, Australia Thursday, May 6, 2010. Two workmen who excavated the wrong front yard in Australia's eastern city of Brisbane fled after realizing their error, Collard said. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)AP - Two workmen used a backhoe to dig up grass, topsoil and 10 palm trees from an Australian front yard before realizing they were at the wrong address and…