Disaster Sneaks In and a Village Is Pummeled
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No one died in Dehiwala, a village south of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, but hundreds have been left homeless.
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PADANG, Indonesia - Days of colossal earthquakes and tsunami warnings have forced traumatized Indonesian villagers to seek safety in the last place imaginable: graveyards.
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How our lives ground to a halt when a storm knocked out power.
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Many displaced people got their first look last week at homes destroyed by renewed fighting.
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Scenes of devastation have confronted aid teams as they arrived in Asia&#39;s isolated tsunami-hit areas, with entire towns destroyed and up to 5 million people in desperate need of food and water.
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Emergency services are working to restore power to Boscastle after flash floods wrecked the Cornish village.
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The South Asian tragedy has ripped open centuries-old fault lines of caste in rural India's rigid social hierarchy. In the district of Nagapattinam, where more than 6,000 people died, untouchables from about 10 villages have openly protested what they call discrimination against them in the provision of relief supplies and access to shelters.
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Desperate for relief, frustrated victims of massive flooding in this ruined town attacked a food distribution site and were driven back by U.N. troops firing smoke grenades.
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All through the night after the tsunami hit, they huddled in the jungle covering the rise above this beach resort, fearing another lethal surge of water below. Thousands of people, many seriously injured, waited for help.
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Â· Sightseeing flight took place in bad weather  Â· Army team sent in after villagers find wreckage
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Boscastle, a fishing village in Cornwall, has been devastated by a flash flood following torrential rain and a rising tide.
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Lightning and heavy rain caused landslides that destroyed houses in two villages in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing more than 50 people, officials said. Seven houses were destroyed and others damaged in remote villages in Dirbala district. The villages are 150 miles north of Peshawar. Several villagers were missing, and the ...
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Â· Evacuated families fill city's hotels and B&BsÂ· Prince boards rescue boat to view stricken village
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Firefighters, volunteers and aircraft tackle forest blazes that have caused widespread death and destruction.
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Survivors in GonaÃ¯ves, a town devastated by Tropical Storm Jeanne, attacked aid trucks and even neighbors bringing them food.
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A lack of coordination in the relief effort for survivors of a deadly tsunami in south India has led to an excess of supplies in some villages while others lack the most basic necessities.
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Centuries-old traditions in Gambell, a village of 700, have been slipping away, as one of the most remote villages on earth finally contends with the modern world.