Gunmen Steal Food from Haiti Flood Victims
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Gunmen raided homes and  stole food from Haitians outside aid distribution centers as  U.N. troops struggled on Friday to maintain order in the chaos  left by floods in which 2,000 people may have died.
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A thunderstorm drenched homeless people living on rooftops and sidewalks in Haiti Saturday, adding to the woes of victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne, who are looting aid trucks and attacking food distribution centers in desperation
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - Survivors of devastating  flooding in Haiti wandered mud-clogged streets in search of  food on Tuesday and officials said the death toll could rise  above 660.
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Victims who lost relatives, homes and belongings in Tropical Storm Jeanne are now tormented by street gangs who attack food convoys, raid homes at night and shoot those who get in their way.
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While desperately hungry flood victims wander the streets of Gonaives searching for help, tons of food aid is piling up in a warehouse guarded by UN peacekeepers.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - Survivors of devastating  flooding in Haiti wandered mud-clogged streets in search of  food on Tuesday and officials said the death toll could rise  about 660.
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The death toll in Haiti from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,000 Wednesday while emergency food aid was distributed to thousands of people who were made homeless in the deadly storm.
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Gunmen abducted five foreigners Friday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland, with at least three of them seized and spirited away in a speedboat, officials said.
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Haiti began burying hundreds of flood victims in mass graves on Wednesday while emergency food was distributed to some of the thousands of people made homeless by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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Armed tribesmen kidnapped four French tourists in southeastern Yemen on Sunday, the latest in a series of such abductions that have embarrassed the Yemeni government.
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Gunmen kidnapped a  Filipino woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing  Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the  anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate  incident.
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Street gangsters are holding up aid convoys, crashing food distributions, breaking into homes to steal food and shooting anyone who gets in their way, subjecting tens of thousands of weary storm survivors to life-threatening delays
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Unknown gunmen abducted two international and two Afghan employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross near Kabul, Afghan officials said Thursday.
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An armed gang who fled with hostages after freeing 30 people held at a bank in Venezuela are captured.
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Gunmen who held more than 30 hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for over 24 hours negotiated their getaway in an ambulance Tuesday and sped off with five captives, leaving the others inside
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Hungry, thirsty and increasingly desperate residents attacked each other in a panic to get scarce food and water Thursday as workers struggled to bury hundreds of corpses six days after the city was struck by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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Gunmen abducted two Italians working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza on Tuesday, the latest in a spate of kidnappings of foreigners in the Palestinian coastal strip.