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Death toll in Indian cold snap tops 100 NEW DELHI, India (AFP) Jan 01, 2006 A cold snap sweeping northern India has killed another five homeless people, taking the toll to 101 since the start of December, officials said Sunday. New Orleans limps into new year NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) Jan 01, 2006 Four months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the Big Easy is limping into the new year with most of its residents still homeless and mounds of storm debris still littering the historic French Quarter. Kenya's Kibaki calls food crisis 'famine,' 'national disaster' NAIROBI (AFP) Jan 01, 2006 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Sunday declared food shortages ravaging parts of the east African country a "national disaster" and for the first time used the word "famine" to describe the crisis. |
Death toll from Yemen landslide rises to 54 SANAA (AFP) Jan 01, 2006 The death toll from a landslide that devastated a Yemeni village has risen to 54, the state news agency said Sunday, as hopes dimmed for finding alive dozens of missing people. Amid New Year fireworks, calls for peace NEW YORK (AFP) Jan 01, 2006 Revellers around the world rang in the New Year with the usual fireworks and fanfare accompanied by calls for peace from the US and Iraqi presidents. Pakistani quake survivors shiver as rain, snow hit the region MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AFP) Jan 01, 2006 Rain and snow that hit quake-battered areas of Pakistan on the eve of the new year have brought more misery and hardship, survivors said Sunday. |
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California floods force thousands from homes SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) Jan 01, 2006 Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in the San Francisco area after a downpour triggered landslides and floods, officials said Saturday. Thai tourism operators fear 2006 targets unlikely to be met BANGKOK (AFP) Jan 01, 2006 Thai tourism operators have warned 2006 targets are unlikely to be met after the government cut its tourism arrivals projections to 13.6 million people from an original 15 million. India wants to make tsunami-hit Andamans a tourist hotspot VIPER ISLAND, India (AFP) Jan 01, 2006 A remote and deserted Indian Ocean island with a crumbling prison camp as its only building might seem an unlikely tourist hotspot. |
New Orleans bids farewell to tragic 2005 NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) Jan 01, 2006 Crowds gathered in New Orleans' historic French Quarter Saturday to bid farewell to a tragic year in which hundreds died in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Talks key to halting Sri Lanka's slide to full-scale war: analysts COLOMBO (AFP) Jan 01, 2006 Sri Lanka could slide back into civil war early in the New Year unless the government and Tamil Tiger rebels agree to meet face-to-face and save their fragile truce, according to analysts and mediators. Amid New Year fireworks, reminders of darkness LONDON (AFP) Dec 31, 2005 Revellers around the world rang in the New Year with the usual fireworks and fanfare as well as calls for peace from leaders such as Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. |
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