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Indonesia tsunami kills 113; scores more missing (AP)

October 26th, 2010

A man points at a seismic chart in Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau. A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the island's east coast Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AP - A tsunami that pounded several islands in western Indonesia killed at least 113 people and scores more are missing.


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Indonesia tsunami kills 23, leaves scores missing (AP)

October 26th, 2010

A man points at a seismic chart in Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau. A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the island's east coast Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AP - A powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that pounded villages on remote islands off western Indonesia, killing at least 23 people and leaving more than 160 others missing, witnesses…

Basra blasts kill 20 Iraqis, wound scores (AP)

August 7th, 2010

Iraqi men evacuate a victim from the scene of an explosion in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 7, 2010. Health officials say evening market blasts in Iraq's second-largest city have killed several people and wounded dozens.(AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)AP - Explosions killed at least 20 people and wounded as many as 100 Saturday night at a downtown market in Iraq’s second-largest city, a senior official said, coming at…

Poland’s Komorowski scores 52.63 percent in vote (AFP)

July 4th, 2010

Polish politician Bronislaw Komorowski scored 52.63 percent of votes in the country's presidential elections with returns from 95.1 percent of polling stations counted, the state election commission said Monday.(AFP/Janek Skarzynski)AFP - Liberal Bronislaw Komorowski scored 52.63 percent of votes with returns from 95.1 percent of polling stations counted in Poland’s snap presidential election, the state election commission said Monday.


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Scores rescued from flooded coal mine in China (AP)

April 5th, 2010

A coal miner rescued from the Wangjialing Coal Mine in Xiangning county is rushed into a hospital in Hejing town in north China's Shanxi province on Monday, April 5, 2010. More than 100 Chinese miners were pulled out alive Monday after being trapped for more than a week in the flooded coal mine, sparking cheers among the hundreds of rescue workers who had raced to save them and almost given up hope. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Rescuers paddled the rafts with their hands in the dark, flooded mine shaft, letting out air so the inflatable vessels could squeeze through tight passages. From deep in…

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