Peru emergency amid cold snap
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Peruvian authorities declare a state of emergency  in several Andean regions after cold weather leaves 200 dead.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities on Monday  threatened to storm a police station seized on New Year's Day  by an armed group demanding the president's resignation, and  warned residents to get out of the area.
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Panama declared a state of emergency on Saturday, a day after torrential rains and mudslides killed at least 14 people and wrecked or damaged the homes of about 10,000 people.
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By Marco Aquino and Jude Webber LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian police and troops on Mondaylaunched an offensive to retake a police station in a southernAndean town and end a three-day siege by ex-soldiers demandingthe resignation of unpopular President Alejandro Toledo.
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Panama declared a state of  emergency on Saturday, a day after torrential rains and  mudslides killed at least 14 people and wrecked or damaged the  homes of about 10,000 people.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peru declared a state of emergency  in the southern Andean town of Andahuaylas on Saturday where an  armed group led by a radical former soldier stormed a police  station and was holding 10 officers hostage.
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The Bolivian government is holding emergency talks over the severe flooding in much of the country.
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A cold front barreling through the eastern half of the country Wednesday was expected to cause temperatures to plunge.
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LIMA, Peru  - Indian peasants burned alive a manaccused of stealing a gas canister in the latest outbreak ofmob justice in Peru's remote southern Andes.
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At least four people contract HIV after blood transfusions in Peru, prompting a national emergency.
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Brutal winter weather that has battered China's central, eastern and southern sections prompted the China Meteorological Administration to issue a rare red alert Monday as the nation braced for more snow and bone-chilling temperatures.
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Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages on Wednesday and millions more were stranded by snow that has blanketed parts of central and southern China, raising concerns about their safety.
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency as California shivered under a blanket of unseasonally cold weather.
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Millions were left without power and hundreds of thousands without ready access to gasoline, groceries or other daily staples.
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LIMA -- Peru declared a state of emergency in the southern Andean town of Andahuaylas yesterday where an armed group led by a radical former soldier stormed a police station and was holding 10 officers hostage. Seven people were injured, two seriously, in a gunfight in the early hours of New Year's Day after former army Major Antauro Humala and ...
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Wild winter weather across China left hundreds of thousands of people stranded on Monday and crippled energy and transport, stoking fears of rising deaths and economic damage blighting the biggest holiday of the year.
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Wild winter weather across China left  hundreds of thousands of people stranded on Monday and crippled  energy and transport, stoking fears of rising deaths and  economic damage blighting the biggest holiday of the year.