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 Jakarta (AFP) Oct 1, 2009 
Indonesia said Thursday it expected the death toll from a massive earthquake to climb into the thousands, as rescue workers dug with their bare hands to reach those trapped under rubble. The first flights laden with food, medicine and body bags began arriving in the devastated region on Sumatra island, even as another powerful quake struck further south, sending residents fleeing their homes ... read more 
Pago Pago, American Samoa (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Looters roamed almost unimpeded through the devastated streets of the capital of American Samoa on Wednesday as police searched for bodies following a killer tsunami. At least 31 people were killed in American Samoa after an 8.0 magnitude earthquake triggered waves which pounded into American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga causing widespread destruction. The regional death toll was at least 14 ... more |
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Quang Nam, Vietnam (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Millions of flood-hit survivors of Typhoon Ketsana across Southeast Asia waited for aid and braced for a new super storm on Thursday as the disaster's death toll climbed to 383. One of the most destructive storms in recent years, Ketsana wreaked havoc in the Philippines at the weekend while still a tropical storm, then strengthened over the South China Sea to batter Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao ... more 
Lalomanu, Samoa (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Makeshift crosses dot the shattered landscape of the Samoan tsunami's "Ground Zero", a village of tropical homes and beachside resorts which has been literally wiped off the map. Upturned cars, toppled concrete pillars and mounds of debris mark the site of Lalomanu, home to hundreds of people just 24 hours earlier. Now, not even a single building remains. Tony Hill, head of the joint-age ... more 
Nuku'Alofa (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Desperate tsunami survivors on a remote Tongan island have appealed for urgent aid -- and comforting music -- as they remained homeless and cut off from the outside world. Hundreds of Niuatoputapu residents said Wednesday they needed medical supplies, fresh water and shelter, after more than 90 percent of homes on the tiny island were destroyed. They also requested "radio programmes of ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Many people who have died from swine flu in the United States were also infected with other bacteria, including one which can cause pneumonia or meningitis, US health officials said Wednesday. Scientists who analyzed the cases of 77 patients who had the new strain of H1N1 flu and died found evidence of bacterial co-infection in around a third of the cases. Of the 22 patients found to ... more  
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 30, 2009New HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa are growing twice as quickly as anti-retroviral drugs are rolled out, despite a 39 percent hike in treatment access, UNAIDS said Wednesday. The number of people receiving AIDS treatments in the region, where two-thirds of the world's HIV positive people live -- rose from 2.1 million in 2007 to 2.9 million last year. Although the region showed the ... more  
Washington (AFP) Sept 30, 2009A pitched battle over climate change took off Wednesday in the US Senate, as leading Democratic lawmakers unveiled a bill unlikely to be completed before a key international conference in December. "We need to act now and get the job done," Democratic Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, told a crowd of over 300 environmental activists who gathered on the ... more |
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