In Kenya, Death Toll Rises
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At least 85 killed as violence appears to spiral beyond deadlocked political leaders' control.
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Thousands of uprooted Kenyans are not getting the HIV medicines they need to survive, and rising sexual attacks in camps stand to further spread the disease, public health experts say.
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The death toll from fierce rain storms and flooding in China continued to rise Saturday as the government scrambled to step up relief and prevention efforts, state press reported.
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The death toll from last month's Indian Ocean tsunami disaster rose towards a quarter of a million while floods hampered relief efforts in worst-hit Indonesia's Aceh province.
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Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia in the aftermath of Asia&#39;s devastating tsunamis, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to around 44,000.
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NAKURU, Kenya  - Ethnic fighting killed at least 12 people in Kenya's Rift Valley and uprooted thousands more on Friday, undermining hopes of an end to weeks of unrest.
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Kenyans faced a third day of opposition protests on Friday as the death toll mounted from rallies against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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Men sobbed as police unloaded 16 charred bodies at a mortuary in this western Kenyan city. People with machete and arrow wounds overwhelmed the main hospital and were forced to share beds. Hundreds of homeless took shelter at a church.
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Kenya sank deeper into trouble, with a curfew imposed in Kisumu, the countryâs third largest city, ethnic fighting intensifying and more than 100 people killed in election-related violence.
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Dozens of people seeking refuge in a church in Kenya were burned to death by a mob in an escalation of ethnic violence that is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.
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Police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday as President Mwai Kibaki began a second term after a disputed vote that has hurt Kenya's democratic credentials and brought a death toll rising into the dozens.
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In village after deserted village across Kenya's fertile Rift Valley, the story is the same. Rampaging mobs have chased away Kenya's most powerful tribe, the Kikuyu, burning homes to the ground and killing hundreds in the worst ethnic bloodletting in 15 years.
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At least one person is killed and several others are injured in an explosion in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, police say.
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The death toll from a series of earthquakes that hit central Africa rose Monday to 43 as a major aid operation for hundreds of injured and thousands of homeless gathered pace amid new aftershocks.
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Western diplomats have been putting pressure on the Kenyan government and opposition to bring an end to bloodletting that has killed more than 300 people in the past three days.
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HAITI&#39;S official death toll from tropical storm Jeanne soared to more than 1070 yesterday and could rise to 2000, officials announced as aid workers started mass burials.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lanka's tsunami death toll  shot up on Monday as officials said the more they cleared up,  the more bodies they found.