Photo in the News: Giant Sinkhole Swallows Guatemala Homes
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Deeper than the Statue of Liberty is tall, the chasm is blamed in the deaths of three people so far.
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A giant sinkhole swallowed a stretch of street on Mexico City's east side, with one man feared dead and 30 families evacuated, authorities said Monday.
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The reasons why Rigoberta Menchu, the first indigenous presidential candidate in Guatemala, lost nationwide elections on Sunday are as complex as the Mayans themselves.
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A severe landslide has nearly obliterated one of Russia's most noted natural wonders, the Valley of Geysers, officials and environmental activists said Monday.
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SAN RAYMUNDO, Guatemala -- At the slippery base of a steep, muddy path, Armando Sanchez, a thickset man with dark bags beneath heavily lidded eyes, slumped in a plastic chair and sobbed.
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Giant sinkholes lurked in the distance. Foot-deep puddles the length of football fields hid the hash marks that divide highway lanes.
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GUATEMALA CITY - Emergency crews on Saturday found a third body in a 330-foot-deep sinkhole that had swallowed a dozen homes and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood.
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MANILA, 4 December 2004 - With floods receding, rescuers raced to deliver food to famished survivors in northeastern Philippine villages isolated by back-to-back storms that left more than 650 people dead and almost 400 missing.
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By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN  NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A dozen Guatemalans filed a federal human trafficking and racketeering lawsuit against a large nursery Thursday, claiming they were taken to Connecticut without their consent, forced to work nearly 80 hours a week and paid less than minimum wage.
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Iraqis inspect the rubble of a destroyed house following US air strikes on the city of Falluja. Photograph: Mohammed Khodor/Reuters.
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PARIS, Nov 13 (IPS) - The cancellation of a gold mining contract in  French Guiana has placed the spotlight on another project that is  continuing in Guatemala, at disastrous cost to local people and  the environment.
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There is a "high possibility" a huge underground drainage tunnel could soon fail, flooding parts of this mountain-ringed metropolis 15 feet deep in sewage, the national water agency said Tuesday.
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By Nancy Perkins Deseret Morning News  Water rights in southwestern Utah's Escalante Valley are a precious commodity, and farmers there are worried that a state- mandated plan may dilute those rights, after sinkholes were found in the area because of groundwater use.
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An upwelling of mud that has killed at least 13 and may leave thousands homeless was started by exploratory drilling, scientists say.
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A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday just off the Pacific coast of Guatemala, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Scientists said that a lake in southern Chile that mysteriously disappeared last month developed a crack which allowed the water to drain away.
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The walk through the decaying seaside mansion is a grim reminder of the political carnage that wracked Peru over two decades and killed nearly 70,000 people. The photos stare from peeling walls in a stark chronicle of the bloodbath.