Helicopters swoop to save Kenya refugees
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NAIVASHA, Kenya  - Kenyan military helicopters swooped over machete-wielding crowds terrorizing hundreds of refugees in a lakeside town on Tuesday against a backdrop of spiraling violence in the east African country.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Relief workers flew  helicopters and cajoled elephants to find and feed survivors  and shift the rubble of razed towns Monday, eight days after  tsunamis changed the map of South Asia.
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Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up casualties as the weather cleared Saturday in villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that have left 640 people dead
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Despite the loss of a NATO Chinook helicopter this week with seven servicemen aboard, a British-led thrust to drive the Taliban from strongholds in Helmand province is yielding success, Western military officials said on Friday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. Navy helicopters,  unable to land in tsunami-ravaged Indonesian villages, dropped  aid Sunday to desperate crowds clamoring for the life-saving  parcels.
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CHEBILAT, Kenya  - Militiamen armed with clubs, sharpened sticks and machetes patrolled roads in Kenya's Rift Valley on Sunday, while scores of people fled ethnic attacks on their homes in heavily armed police convoys.
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Fresh rains have caused new flooding in northeast Kenya, compounding the misery of stricken Somali refugees at United Nations camps, the UN has said, as the US military began aid air drops.
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In a country strangled by anger and fear, it is taking armed escorts and emergency airlifts to make sure that Kenya's most warmhearted export Â the rose Â arrives in time for Valentine's Day.
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At least 180,000 people have been displaced by unrest after last week's disputed Kenyan election, say UN officials.
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One of the world&#39;s biggest humanitarian relief efforts came to life yesterday as warships, helicopters, search aircraft, transport planes and refrigerated containers
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Around 400 UK military personnel are involved in an operation to rescue hundreds of Britons from violence in the Ivory Coast. An MoD spokesman said two RAF Hercules aeroplanes had landed in nearby Ghana carrying around two hundred people to safety.
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Pamela Bone witnesses Africa&#39;s latest humanitarian crisis, the flight of refugees from Sudan to Chad. On the bank of the wadi, which two weeks ago was full of fast-flowing water but is now only a few muddy
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U.S. military  crews are launching more than 100 helicopter flights a day from  the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln ferrying food, water  and medicine to tsunami victims, a task they say is far more  satisfactory than the Iraq war that seems only to destroy.
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THAI army helicopters with loudspeakers hovered over remote jungle peaks in the south of the country yesterday, coaxing those who had fled Sundayâs massive tidal wave to come down to safety.
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EL FASHER, Sudan, Sept. 8 -- Yagoub Mustafa, 45, could not easily mimic the "whoop whoop whoop, boom! boom! boom!" of two helicopter gunships that fired rockets into the huts in his Darfur village. He tried to make the noises, but they were not loud enough, or terrifying enough.
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ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN -- Desperate, homeless villagers on the tsunami-ravaged island of Sumatra mobbed American helicopters carrying aid yesterday, as the US military launched its largest operation in the region since the Vietnam War, ferrying food and other emergency relief to survivors across the disaster zone.
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Rescue teams in Nepal stepped up   their search for a helicopter chartered by conservation group   World Wildlife Fund (WWF) with 24 people on board after it went   missing during bad weather, officials said on Sunday.