Village shaken by GPS-driven tank invasion
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Sat nav panzer army The Shropshire village of Donnington has suffered repeated invasions by transporters bearing 70-tonne tanks because the drivers' sat navs have mistaken the "picturesque" enclave with a nearby barracks of the same name.â¦
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Gaza is a small place, and news spread quickly Wednesday that the border fence was knocked down before dawn. Pretty soon, I was caught up in a traffic jam as people raced to Rafah in buses, cars, motorcycles. Some even rode bicycles and donkey carts.
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First came the sickening crack of splitting earth, then a sudden roar as dirt and vegetation swallowed home after home. Alerted to the landslide by screams and honking horns, some in this sliver of a town found themselves literally racing the fast-moving flow downhill as it tore through cars and telephone poles.
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NANO VILLAGE, Pakistan, Feb. 12 -- Troops and rescue workers raced to a coastal town devastated when heavy rains burst a large dam, sending water surging through the streets and sweeping people into the Arabian Sea. At least 80 were dead and hundreds missing, an official said Saturday.
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A clear-up operation is under way after severe flooding hits a County Antrim village.
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Troops and Tamil Tigers traded mortar fire in this northeastern Sri Lanka port district, a day after the military captured a nearby town used as a key rebel artillery base.
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Soldiers who reached an isolated Pacific Ocean village in Aurora province reported finding about about 100 dead. In the worst-hit town of Real, in nearby Quezon province, TV images showed bodies buried under
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WANA/PESHAWAR: The military stepped up operations in South Waziristan on Saturday as helicopter gunships and bombers were called out to flush militants from hideouts near the Shakai valley.
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Rural roads are being traveled by more and more people, leading to an increase in fatal wildlife-related crashes.
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When Israeli airstrikes and artillery pounded the rocky hills around this Mediterranean village last month, U.N. peacekeepers could do little but watch helplessly.
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Gunfire and gang violence are alarming people in this farm town where the usual background noise is the reassuring chug of field machinery.
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Palestinian gunmen took up positions and Israeli tanks massed along the border with the Gaza Strip today as Israel pushed ahead with a massive military operation in the stripâs largest refugee camp.
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Australian troops backed by tanks, helicopters and airplanes have stormed the East Timor town where a rebel leader is holed up, entering his stronghold, a witness said on Sunday.
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Angry villagers blockade Guyana's main east-west highway in response to a weekend rampage by gunmen.
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The hulks of the 69-ton M1A1 Abrams tanks were barely visible on the dark desert plain, but the rumble of their engines filled the night.
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Chuquri has seen a century&#39;s worth of battles. British colonists, Soviet soldiers and the black-turbanned Taliban have variously marched, bombed or shot their way through the mud-walled, hilltop hamlet.
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TAIYEH, Iraq -- The distress call rang out over the radio. In the midst of one of the largest current military operations in Iraq, Capt. Mike Stinchfield recognized this was, so far, his most urgent mission of the day.