Soldiers bulldoze Naples rubbish
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The Italian army battles against huge piles of rubbish clogging the streets of Naples.
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"It would have been the final tombstone for this temple"  Italian police have recovered an ancient Greek temple dug up in southern Italy by a construction crew who had dumped or looted the prized artifacts and begun to pour cement over the ruins, authorities said Tuesday.After receiving information about the discovery during construction work on a tourist resort on the coast of southern Calabria, police used helicopters to locate the site near the town of Crotone, said art squad officials from the Carabinieri paramilitary police.More than 50 artifacts, including columns and mosaics, had been excavated from the site and used to decorate another hotel complex nearby, while other pieces had been placed in a dump to be reused as construction material. Read more
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As ash from cremation fires drifted through the air around the devastated beach resort of Khao Lak last night, Thai soldiers unloaded numbered bodybags from a lorry at a graveyard in Bangmuang.
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Italian police have recovered an ancient Greek temple dug up in southern Italy by a construction crew who had dumped or looted the prized artifacts and begun to pour cement over the ruins, authorities said Tuesday.
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Hundreds of workers started bulldozing part of a village Wednesday to clear the way for the expansion of a U.S. military base set to become the Americans' new headquarters.
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Soldiers have manned bulldozers and residents pitched in with shovels and rakes as Philippine authorities clear mud, logs and debris from flood-hit towns where hundreds have died.
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Italian army called in to start clearing festering piles of rubbish from streets of Naples as Prodi vows to solve problem 'once and for all'
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In a village not far from Tyre, mine-clearing teams worked to destroy unexploded bombs, mortars and other weaponry scattered across the landscape.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 4--OAK RIDGE -- The cleanup apparently is working.
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Stinking mounds of garbage piled up on the streets of Naples on Friday and officials around the country blamed organized crime and bureaucratic red tape for the city's refuse crisis.
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Looters ravaged a former British base Friday, a day after the camp was turned over to Iraqi troops, taking everything from doors and window frames to corrugated roofing and metal pipes, authorities said.
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Police clash with Sardinian residents angered by the delivery of 500 tonnes of rubbish to the island.
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The rubble is everywhere: rusted car parts, a rickety baby carriage, a broken TV and all manner of trash. The ground is unpaved and strewn with rocks.
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GURNA, Egypt  - Drowning out grumbles from tourist touts and descendants of tomb robbers, bulldozers moved into an Egyptian village near the Valley of the Kings on Saturday at the start of a plan to resettle 3,200 households for the sake of archaeology.
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The Pentagon reported yesterday that US Army soldiers removed about 250 tons of material from the Al-Qaqaa munitions complex in April 2003.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - National Guard troops in  Humvees patrolled devastated southwest Florida to prevent  looting on Saturday as rescuers searched for victims of  Hurricane Charley which killed at least 13 people, shredded  mobile homes and damaged thousands of buildings.
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Engineers at sea to refloat the stricken container ship MSC Napoli, six months after it was grounded off the Devon coast.