Indonesians look for miracle to save homes from mud
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SIDOARJO, Indonesia  - Village chief Haji Hasan is   looking for a miracle to save what is left of the Indonesian   hamlet of Kedungbendo from a torrent of mud flowing unchecked   from an exploratory oil well.
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Indonesian authorities will drop hundreds of giant concrete balls into a fissure Friday to try to stem a gushing mud eruption that has inundated villages and factories, an official said. The hot, noxious mud &#151; enough to fill 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools &#151; has flowed from the hole each day for the last nine months, forcing at least 11,000 people from their homes. Four villages and 25 factories have been buried under a 30-foot layer of mud.
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Indonesia plans to divert tonnes of leaking mud, which has submerged several villages, into the sea.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- As relief officials struggle to reach homeless tsunami survivors, another concern is quietly making the rounds of donor meetings: the threat of corruption.
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Indonesian authorities will drop hundreds of giant concrete balls into a fissure Friday to try to stem a gushing mud eruption that has inundated villages and factories, an official said.
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Boats ferried supplies to desperate residents of Indonesia's flood-stricken capital on Sunday as rivers burst their banks following days of rain. At least 20 people have been killed and almost 340,000 forced from their homes, officials said.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Rescuers raced against  time to get food and water to millions of tsunami survivors on  Tuesday, struggling to clear runways and fly aid into areas  where huge waves washed away roads as well as people.
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Rescue workers dug  desperately for survivors on Sunday as residents returned to  ruined homes on Indonesia&#039;s densely populated island of Java a  day after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 3,300.
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PORONG, Indonesia -- For nine months, a gaping hole in the ground has spit out a torrent of hot, black mud, swallowing thousands of houses outside Indonesia's second-largest city and attracting amazed geologists from around the world.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world sped up what  may be its biggest relief effort on Friday to help millions of  tsunami survivors desperate for food, shelter and clean water,  while the death toll marched relentlessly on.
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SIDOARJO, Indonesia  - A torrent of mud that has inundated villages on Indonesia's Java island shows no signs of abating despite efforts to plug it by dropping hundreds of concrete balls into its source, an official said on Tuesday.
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By ANTHONY DEUTSCH  JAKARTA, Indonesia - In a low-lying riverside district of the capital, dead chickens floated in the same filthy floodwaters that women used to bathe children and wash clothes.
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At least 120 people are reported dead or missing in Indonesia, as rescuers try to reach victims of  landslides.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have killed at least nine people and made nearly 200,000 homeless, with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet) deep in some areas, officials said on Sunday.
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JAKARTA , Indonesia -- Strings of bright laundry hang among the gravestones and people who are brave enough sleep among the dead, taking refuge on the high ground of the Karet Cemetery from the worst flooding in the Indonesian capital in decades.
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A novel plan to stop up a deadly upwelling of mud has the potential for added disaster, experts say.
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PORONG, Indonesia  - A mud volcano that forced more than 15,000 people to abandon their homes on the Indonesian island of Java in 2006 has breached the barriers built to contain it, causing further damage, police said.