Helicopters swoop to save Kenya refugees
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NAIVASHA, Kenya  - Kenyan military helicopters swooped over machete-wielding crowds terrorizing hundreds of refugees in a lakeside town on Tuesday against a backdrop of spiraling violence in the east African country.
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Relief efforts by aid agencies and US and German soldiers help Somalis made homeless after last week's tsunami.
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Israeli paratroopers take part in a mission to rescue a pair of rare golden eagles in the West Bank town of Hebron.
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The Christian Science Monitor - As two hulking white UN helicopters recently descended on this small remote town in eastern Congo's Ituri Province, hundreds of schoolchildren fled their classrooms to catch a glimpse of the spectacle.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. Navy helicopters,  unable to land in flooded, tsunami-ravaged Indonesian villages,  dropped aid on Sunday to desperate crowds clamoring for the  life-saving parcels.
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By MICHELLE FAUL  COCORICO, Mozambique - Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and livestock.
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International mediators are arriving in Kenya to help end the political standoff after last week's disputed vote.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters stepped  up aid missions to Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province on  Tuesday as the United Nations urged rich countries to spend  more now to reduce the toll from future natural disasters.
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Around 400 UK military personnel are involved in an operation to rescue hundreds of Britons from violence in the Ivory Coast. An MoD spokesman said two RAF Hercules aeroplanes had landed in nearby Ghana carrying around two hundred people to safety.
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A rescue operation to remove hundreds of Britons from the troubled West African state of Ivory Coast continues on Saturday. Two RAF Hercules planes flew around 200 people to safety in neighbouring Ghana on Friday, the MoD said.
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Helicopters and boats rescued people in Britain and Northern Europe as heavy rains caused flooding and 128 mph winds downed trees and power lines.
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Helicopters sent by Venezuela's president picked up two hostages freed by Colombian rebels in the jungle Thursday and flew the women across the border in a mission that could open a new path to freedom for dozens of captives.
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An African Union helicopter rescued 45 aid workers, 30 from the Save the Children organization, amid renewed fighting in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region Monday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Relief workers flew  helicopters and cajoled elephants to find and feed survivors  and shift the rubble of razed towns Monday, eight days after  tsunamis changed the map of South Asia.
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Search and rescue helicopters scour an area of the Highlands for a missing light aircraft with one person on board.
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Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up casualties as the weather cleared Saturday in villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that have left 640 people dead
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A search is under way for a civilian helicopter that went missing in bad weather on Saturday while ferrying supplies for foreign forces in southern Afghanistan.