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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US helicopters drop supplies into remote parts of Aceh province in Indonesia ravaged by last Sunday's tsunami.
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Relief efforts by aid agencies and US and German soldiers help Somalis made homeless after last week's tsunami.
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Plans for key talks toward a political solution to Kenya's post-election crisis fell through Tuesday. Meanwhile, 250,000 have been displaced by ethnic violence.
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Tens of thousands of Kikuyus, the tribe of Kenyaâs president, have fled because of ethnic violence.
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A major rescue operation involving helicopters was under way on the coast of southwest England after dozens of people became trapped in their cars and homes by rising floodwaters, emergency services said.
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A search is under way for a civilian helicopter that went missing in bad weather on Saturday while ferrying supplies for foreign forces in southern Afghanistan.
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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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Security has been beefed up in the countryâs points of entry following Sundayâs mysterious explosion at Nairobiâs busy Wilson Airport.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters stepped  up aid missions to Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province on  Tuesday as the United Nations urged rich countries to spend  more now to reduce the toll from future natural disasters.
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Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and livestock.
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Pentagon video released Tuesday showed the dramatic rescue of two U.S. helicopter pilots after their aircraft went down amid insurgent fire.
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Mozambique says it has the use of only one UN helicopter to help thousands of people displaced by severe floods.
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Aid workers in  Darfur get a helping hand from advanced satellite mapping.
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Over the past few days, tens of thousands of Kikuyus, the tribe of Kenyaâs president, have fled the western part of the country because of ethnic violence.
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British charities are continuing their efforts to help people made homeless in violence-hit Kenya.
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New efforts are under way to reach some 100,000 Somali refugees in camps cut off by floods in north-east Kenya.