Kabul copes with lots of people, little water
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Afghans see a possible livelihood in the city, despite its crumbling infrastructure.
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Fighting between NATO-led forces and insurgents across southern Afghanistan has displaced an estimated 80,000 to 90,000 people over the past few months, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.
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Security forces in tanks and on foot took up positions around the Afghan capital Tuesday to prevent a repeat of deadly anti-foreigner riots &amp;#151; the most widespread violence in the city since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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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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Flooding in India and Bangladesh has now left some 1.5 million people homeless, officials say.
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Several people were wounded on Saturday  when a bomb went off in a crowded part of the Afghan capital,  witnesses said.
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Tight security is in place in the Afghan capital Kabul as Hamid Karzai prepares to be sworn in as president.
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Fighting between NATO-led forces and  insurgents across southern Afghanistan has displaced an  estimated 80,000 to 90,000 people over the past few months, the  U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.
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Fresh snow from heavy clouds fell on Kabul Saturday, complicating the task for search teams scouring the mountainous region for a passenger jet carrying 104 people, including about 21 foreigners, that disappeared from radar during a snowstorm two days ago.
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The number of people who have died due a cold snap in Afghanistan rises to 200, government officials say.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - More than a week after floods  devastated this impoverished Haitian city, aid workers were  struggling to bring food and clean water to thousands of  residents, some still perched on roofs.
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An ambulance of the International Security Assistance Force carrying the body of Turkish Engineer Eyup Orel leaves Kabul airport in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Dec. 15, 2004.
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Rugged terrain, downed bridges, and the sheer volume of aid are slowing supply distribution.
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HERAT, Afghanistan -- All evening, crowds of followers came and went through the vast, manicured gardens of ''emir sahib,&quot; Ismail Khan. The women sat in a circle, weeping and waiting for their snowy-bearded leader to emerge. The men sat in long, quiet rows under a huge arbor of grapevines.
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DOBUNDI, Afghanistan -- Anguish creased the weathered face of the opium farmer as a US-trained eradication team swept through his farm fields in this southern Afghan village.
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SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan  - Tens of thousands of  people gathered in a northern Afghan town on Tuesday to hear  General Abdul Rashid Dostum launch his bid for the presidency,  as a slow election campaign began to gather pace.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A gun battle and air strikes killed two dozen Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, while more than 20 suspected militants drowned when Afghan forces sank their boat as they crossed a river trying to elude an attack, officials said yesterday.