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Pakistan's flooded farms unable to be sown
The floodwaters that already devastated one crop in the fields are threatening the next season's crop as well, an aftershock aid workers fear could add to Pakistan's misery and prolong the crisis.
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Eight policemen dead in Pakistan suicide attack
At least eight policemen were killed and 13 wounded in a suspected suicide attack on a police station in northwestern Pakistan Monday, police said, the third such attack in the country within a week.
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NZ troops provide security in quake-hit city
Army troops took control of the center of the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Monday, two days after a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake smashed buildings and homes, wrecked roads and rail lines — but caused no loss of life.
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Dozens killed, missing in Guatemala landslides
Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers who had come to save people already trapped by a wall of mud.
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Congo: 70 dead, 200 missing in 2 boat capsizes
Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo's vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both vessels were heavily loaded and operating with few safety measures, officials said Sunday.
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