Humberto kills one as Texas border blasted
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Hurricane Humberto spared Houston but blasted the Texas-Louisiana border area on Thursday, killing one person, shutting down three refineries and cutting power to 100,000 customers.
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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba  - Deadly Hurricane Ivan  ripped off rooftops, downed trees and power lines and flooded  coastal areas as it grazed the western tip of Cuba on Monday  and headed toward U.S. shores.
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One Palestinian was killed by the Israeli forces and a woman settler in a Palestinian attack. News reports quoted Israeli military sources as saying that the Israeli occupation forces killed one Palestinian
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One person was killed and at least  19 people were injured on Tuesday when a tornado swept through  New Orleans neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane  Katrina.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Mexican troops and police fought a fierce battle with suspected drug hitmen armed with grenades in a town near the U.S. border on Monday, and one police officer was killed, witnesses and Mexican media said.
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At least 18 oil workers were killed when a drilling rig hit an oil platform in stormy weather, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company said.
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Flooding caused by torrential rainstorms swept cars off roads in central Texas, killing two people Monday, authorities said.
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PORT OF SPAIN : Up to 10 people were killed on islands of Grenada and Tobago as powerful Hurricane Ivan pummeled the Caribbean, officials said.
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One foreign oil worker is killed and another wounded during an attempt to free those seized by Nigerian militants.
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent trying to stop a suspected drug smuggler was struck and killed by the suspect's car in southern California on Saturday, border police said.
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Hurricane Ivan pummels the US Gulf Coast, causing at least 12 deaths and widespread damage.
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TRACKING HURRICAN IVAN - Hurricane Ivan has left at least 24 people dead in the US and nearly 100 dead on its path up the Caribbean.
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Description: Since coming ashore Thursday, Hurricane Ivan has killed at least 40 people in the United States. In the hardest hit Gulf States of Alabama and Florida, more than a million people remain without power.
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Hurricane Ivan killed at least two  people on Wednesday as it began to batter U.S. shores with high  winds and ferocious surf, touching off tornadoes that ripped  through coastal cities.
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A Border Patrol agent trying to stop a vehicle that had illegally entered the U.S. was struck and killed Saturday in southeastern California, agency officials said.
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At least one person was killed as a cyclone slammed into resource-rich northwest Australia, tearing off roofs in Port Hedland and cutting powerlines, police said Friday.
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Hurricane Humberto made landfall on the  Texas coast as a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds  of 85 mph (137 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on  Thursday.