Tajik Authorities Evacuate Nearly 3,000
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Thousands of people have been evacuated from Tajikistan's eastern mountainous region following a series of avalanches, the Emergency Ministry said Tuesday.
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Evacuees began to flee before dawn, shelters opened and residents and emergency workers hustled to prepare for the region&#39;s first Category 3 hurricane in more than half a century.
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Afghan and NATO forces launched a ground and air search operation Friday for an Afghan passenger jet carrying 104 people that disappeared from radar screens during a snowstorm near the mountain-ringed capital. Three Americans were believed to have been on board.
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Between 2,000 and 3,000 rebel soldiers armed with rifles were moving around the capital of Chad today as Chadian troops used helicopters against them, a French Defense Department spokesman said. The French government said it expected to evacuate 400 foreign nationals today after taking the same number out of its former colony the day before.
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People in the Central Asian state of Tajikistan prepare for a 24-hour blackout as work begins on a new dam.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- China has begun evacuating almost 250,000 people from coastal areas as it braces for the onslaught of Typhoon Aere.
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KHOST, Tajikistan, July 16  - Every spring meltwater dislodges bomblets in the mountains and sends them down steep gulleys towards inhabited areas.
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MADRID: Some 70,000 people have been forced to evacuate Real Madrid&#39;s Santiago Bernabeu stadium minutes before the end of a league match after a bomb threat in the name of ETA Basque separatist guerrillas.
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The Western Colorado chapter of the American Red Cross has raised about $3,000 for relief efforts in South Asia since Tuesday morning.
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Text of report by Tajik news agency Asia-Plus website  Khorugh, 16 February: The volume of TV and radio broadcasts have been reduced two-fold in the Mountainous Badakhshon Autonomous Region [in eastern Tajikistan] due to an accident at the Pamir-1 hydroelectric power station.
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Officials in Tajikistan reduced the death toll from an avalanche to three, saying Monday that the earlier total of 15 dead was a mistake.
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Officials pushed to get food and water to children and adult hostages that may number more than 1,000 held in a school here for a third day by militants who are demanding independence for the Russian republic of Chechnya.
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At least 3,000 people have fled more violence in Sudan's troubled Darfur province in the past few days, the UN says.
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DESTRUCTION: At least 21 people have been killed by the quake, which has forced thousands to evacuate. Yesterday, many were readying to spend another chilly night outside.
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Flooding in central Mozambique threatens some 285,000 people, an official has said, warning that the next three weeks would be critical as a UN agency made a plea for international aid.
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Wildfires spread to threaten new areas   Up to 950,000 people already evacuatedOfficials hope winds will aid firefighters todayHelp given by Mexico, state prisoners
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[World News]: Moscow, Oct 27 : Three senior Russian officials have been charged with negligence in connection with last month&#39;s Beslan school crisis that left at least 350 people, mostly children, dead.