In rare meeting, tribesmen tell officials of survival
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JIRKATANG, India -- Members of the ancient Jarawa tribe emerged from their forest habitat yesterday for the first time since the Dec. 26 tsunami and earthquakes that rocked the isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and in a rare interaction with outsiders announced that all 250 of their fellow tribespeople had survived.
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For 12,000 years or more, Columbia River tribes gathered nearby to do business with distant tribes. Now they want to come back &#151; to deal blackjack and poker.
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Two exiled leaders of a tribal insurgent group that has waged India's longest rebellion will meet Indian officials to push for a breakthrough in long-running peace talks, a rebel spokesman said on Sunday.
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ACHOLI religious and civic leaders, and the United Nations officials met LRA rebel commanders in a bush in Kitgum after weeks of painstaking planning.
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Alaska's Old Believers are accustomed to struggle. But even for them, these are the most trying of times.
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A delegation of Pakistani tribal elders has met with the leader of al-Qaida-linked militants holding two Chinese engineers hostage, but failed to secure their release.
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People here believe in miracles. Small ones, where a kind word or a soft touch can make all the difference. Big ones, too &#151; like finding six men in a collapsed mountain mine nearly three weeks after they were trapped.
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For centuries, members of the Lakota, Cheyenne and other American Indian tribes have been climbing Bear Butte to fast and hold religious ceremonies.
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Lying in a hospital bed in this rural hub of Kenya's Rift Valley, a man describes surviving two machete wounds to his head and multiple slashes to his hands. He says he was attacked by people who now live by the rules of tribalism.
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BOWARA, Central African Republic  - Driven from their homes by armed raiders, terrified villagers in northwest Central African Republic say they are surviving in the bush eating roots, fruit and leaves.
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Original leaders may be best qualified to rescue their struggling creations.
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A couple subjected to a vicious  and terrifying hatchet and machete attack talk about their ordeal.
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Fierce fighting in a militant infested tribal region underscored Western fears of an al Qaeda threat radiating from Pakistan as U.S. officials met President Pervez Musharraf for talks on Thursday.
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âPakistan is inherently unstable. Dealing with them is like playing with matches in a forest.â - Larry Pressler. That statement from Larry Pressler, made during his recent visit to India, coincided with
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chiefs hold emergency meetings over how to combat a mob turf battle in the southern Italian city. were the latest victims of a struggle for control a multi-billion dollar trade in drugs, arms and prostitution.
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GLASGOW (CP) - The weary captain and crew of the stricken HMCS Chicoutimi told tales of heroism, fear and survival Monday in their first public recounting of the fire aboard their sub, with some expressing wonderment that they lived to tell of their ordeal.
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IFOTAKA, Madagascar  - Manahira Mahateraka  communicates with the dead.