Ecuador villagers flee volcano
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Hundreds of villagers in Ecuador leave their homes after a volcano shoots columns of ash several kilometres into the air.
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An earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island forces people to flee their homes, fearing a tsunami.
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Forest fires that have killed at least 46 people continued to burn out of control, leaving some villages trapped within walls of flames.
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Tens of thousands of people, including Miskito Indians and foreign tourists, began fleeing low-lying coastal areas on Central America's Caribbean coast on Monday to escape the approaching Hurricane Felix.
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Villagers in northwestern Cameroon have burned down some 300 homes and forced thousands of people to flee a rival settlement in a dispute over farming land, a senior local official said on Wednesday.
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Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano is poised for a major eruption, a volcanologist said Wednesday. Authorities last week evacuated 10 villages from its western slopes as a precaution.
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Mount Bulusan spewed ash in a fresh explosion late Tuesday, prompting Philippine officials to hastily evacuate a nearby village during a rainstorm. The minor ash explosion, Bulusan&#039;s ninth since it started acting up in March, was accompanied by mild earth tremors for several minutes before the volcano calmed down again.
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Residents near the Indonesian volcano Mount Kelud ignore orders to move, despite warnings of an eruption.
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MOUNT KELUD, Indonesia - Tens of thousands of people were ordered by police - some at gunpoint - to leave their homes on the slopes of one of Indonesia's deadliest volcanoes yesterday after a series of underground tremors heightened fears of an imminent eruption.
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About 60 ex-residents of a Japanese island return to homes they fled after a volcanic eruption in 2000.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - More than 1,000 villagers have fled a southern Afghan town as Taliban fighters dig in to repel NATO efforts to drive them out, residents and officials said on Wednesday.
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A volcano in northern Tanzania erupted on Friday, spewing small amounts of smoke and lava, the government spokesman said.
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Fighting to survive without water or food since the tsunami, villagers on a remote southern Indian archipelago forbidden to outsiders are starving and desperate for humanitarian aid, survivors and officials said Friday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Rescue workers struggled on  Saturday to reach remote villages in Venezuela's Andean  mountains cut off by torrential rains and landslides that have  killed more than 40 people in nearly a week.
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Entire villages were wiped out in the tiny Andaman and Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal. They lost more than 3000 residents in the disaster - 12 per cent of their population.
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A volcano erupts in southern Colombia, prompting the evacuation of 8,000 residents of a nearby city.
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Authorities have evacuated dozens of the world's most primitive people from their tsunami-hit homelands in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, potentially exposing them to unwelcome outside influence.