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Myanmar people overjoyed but worry about Suu Kyi (Reuters)

November 15th, 2010

Aung San Suu Kyi holds a bunch of flowers before addressing supporters outside the headquarters of her National League for Democracy party in Yangon November 14, 2010. REUTERS/Soe Zeya TunReuters - The release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is still being celebrated in Myanmar but fears about her safety or re-arrest are running high among her adoring…

Costa Rica landslide kills 20 people (Reuters)

November 4th, 2010

Reuters - A landslide caused by heavy rain killed 20 people in Costa Rica on Thursday as President Laura Chinchilla considered declaring a national emergency to help the coffee-growing nation…

Bomb kills 5 people at Sufi shrine in Pakistan (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Map locating Pakpattan in Pakistan where at several people have been killed in a bomb blast after dawn prayers at a Sufi shrine.(AFP Graphic)AP - A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded at the gate of a famous Sufi shrine in central Pakistan during morning prayers Monday, killing at least five people, said…

Mexico: Landslide in another town kills 12 people (AP)

September 29th, 2010

Soldiers, police officers and residents search for victims after a landslide Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)AP - Rescue efforts resumed Wednesday for 11 people missing after a huge hillside collapsed on a town in Mexico’s rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca, while a landslide in a…

2 million people displaced in Nigeria flooding (AP)

September 24th, 2010

AP - Nigerian authorities opened the gates at two swollen dams in the country’s rain-soaked north, sending a flood into a neighboring state that has displaced 2 million people, officials…

Bomb attack kills 10 people in western Iran (AP)

September 22nd, 2010

AP - A bomb exploded at a military parade in northwestern Iran on Wednesday, killing 10 spectators in an attack that one official blamed on Kurdish separatists who have fought…

Suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 people (AP)

September 6th, 2010

Map of Pakistan locating the site of the suicide attack on Monday. At least 17 people were killed and 45 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, destroying the building, police said.(AFP/Graphic/Afp Graphics)AP - A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17…

9 people killed in New Zealand plane crash (AP)

September 4th, 2010

AP - Nine people have died after a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed Saturday on New Zealand’s South Island, police said.

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Russian nursing home fire kills 9 people (AP)

August 30th, 2010

AP - A blaze at a Russian nursing home killed nine people early Monday, and emergency officials said it may have been started by a resident setting himself on fire.

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15 people wounded in explosion in Russia’s south (AP)

August 17th, 2010

AP - A vehicle exploded outside a cafe in southern Russia Tuesday, injuring at least 15 people, police said.

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