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Floridians clean up after Wilma's thrashing NAPLES, Florida (AFP) Oct 26, 2005 From coast to coast, Floridians cleaned up streets littered with fallen branches and received emergency supplies Tuesday after Hurricane Wilma violently sliced across their southern state. Outages, looting hamper recovery in Hurricane Wilma's deadly path MIAMI, Florida (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 Massive power outages and curfews to prevent looting slowed recovery efforts Tuesday along the path of deadly Hurricane Wilma, which blasted through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, Cuba and Florida with intense winds and rains over the last five days. Red Cross sounds alarm over Aceh polio outbreak GENEVA (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 A three-pronged attack is needed to contain an outbreak of the child-cripping polio disease in Indonesia's devastated Aceh province, the Red Cross said Tuesday. |
French firm to evacuate 790 tourists from storm-hit Mexico PARIS (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 A French tour operator, Nouvelles Frontieres, said Tuesday it had chartered two aircraft to bring home 790 French tourists stuck in Mexico after the country was hit by Hurricane Wilma. Wilma leaves southeast Florida paralyzed MIAMI (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 Southeastern Florida remained paralyzed Tuesday in the wake of Hurricane Wilma, which left at least four people dead and six million without electricity in the worst battering by a storm since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, local authorities said. UN to urge speedier aid for Pakistan quake victims as winter looms GENEVA (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will try to speed up urgently needed aid for Pakistani quake victims at a meeting with governments in Geneva Wednesday, with just weeks to go before snow threatens to ground the relief effort. |
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Wilma pounds Florida, floods Cuba, killing 18 MIAMI, Florida (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 Hurricane Wilma sped northward along the eastern US coast Tuesday after cutting furiously across Florida, killing at least four people, leaving more than three million homes without power and churning huge waves that flooded Cuba's capital, Havana. BP sees profit surge despite hurricane damage LONDON (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 British oil giant BP on Tuesday said net profit rose to 4.41 billion dollars (3.69 billion euros) during the third quarter, as record energy prices helped to offset production damage caused by recent US hurricanes. Havana floodwaters subside as Cubans clean up after Wilma HAVANA (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 Floodwaters whipped up by Hurricane Wilma, which inundated parts of Havana, started subsiding Tuesday, but many parts of the city remained without power as Cubans began clearing up after the huge storm. |
Portuguese farmers stage protest to demand drought aid LISBON (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 Some 6,000 farmers from across Portugal staged a protest rally on Tuesday in the capital Lisbon to demand more government help in dealing with the country's worst drought in 60 years. Rich countries giving too little to UN for quake victims: Oxfam LONDON (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 Rich countries are giving little or nothing to the United Nations for South Asian earthquake relief efforts, the British aid charity Oxfam said Tuesday on the eve of a UN donor conference in Geneva. Indonesia, Aceh rebels agree to speed up peace pact BANDA ACEH (AFP) Oct 25, 2005 The Indonesian government and separatist rebels in Aceh agreed on Tuesday to hasten guerilla decommissioning and military redeployment under a peace pact struck in August, foreign peace monitors said. |
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