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Plague of giant Spanish super-slugs invade Britain
A plague of “super-slugs” has arrived in the UK from Spain, travelling on imported salads and flowers. The Spanish invaders are mating with species already found in Britain to create a “mutant”...
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Nigeria: Flood victims to clerics: We can’t listen to sermon on empty stomach...
DISPLACED persons in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Sunday attacked Christian leaders and broke the glasses of the doors of venue of service in an attempt to abort the planned Sunday service. They also...
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Migrant boat sinks off Libyan coast killing three, 70 rescued
ROME (Reuters) – The Italian coastguard and navy recovered the bodies of three Somali nationals about 35 miles from the Libyan coast late on Saturday when the motorised raft they were using to try to...
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Nigeria flood victims face new hardship
Nigeria’s worst flooding in decades has submerged houses and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, so Gibson Orlu was shocked when authorities at a relief camp told him to return home. “To...
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Victims beg for food after deadly Philippine typhoon
MANILA (Dec 9, 2012): Desperate families begged for food Sunday, days after a typhoon brought death and destruction to parts of a southern Philippine island, as the storm returned to the north of the...
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Malaysia: More Flood Victims Evacuated In Terengganu
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29 (Bernama) — More flood victims were evacuated in Terengganu Friday night, bringing the total number of evacuees in the east coast states to 23,307 from 21,013 Friday afternoon. In...
View ArticleSyrian refugee camps: Winter compounds hardship
Published on Jan 12, 2013 The worst storms in a decade may have passed, but for many Syrian refugees living in camps along the borders, the weather remains bitterly cold. In Turkey, temperatures are...
View ArticleN of Christmas Island Navy personnel have dramatically rescued asylum seekers
The bodies of 98 asylum seekers on board a boat believed to be heading to Indonesia and Australia were reportedly thrown into the sea by their shipmates. Immigration Minister Brendan O’Connor is...
View ArticleHungry Storm Victims in Southern Philippines Ransack for Food
More than a thousand hungry people who survived the devastation of super typhoon “Pablo” ransacked the regional office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Davao City to protest...
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Mudslide victims’ woes continue after being evicted
More than 200 survivors of mudslides that hit parts of Keiyo South District last month are now stranded after they were forced out of Sabor Forest. The families had been camping at Toroplongon,...
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More than 1,200 migrants reached Italy over the weekend
Seven migrants drowned Sunday as they attempted to cling to a tuna cage dragged by a Tunisian fishing boat south of Malta. The immigrants were among more than a thousand that have flocked to Italian...
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Dozens dead near Sicily as ship carrying migrants capsizes
Dozens of people died on Friday when a boat carrying around 250 migrants capsized between Sicily and Tunisia, in the second such shipwreck this month, the Italian coast guard said. Italian and Maltese...
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Vast Majority of Asylum Applications Rejected in Iceland
Roughly 6.5 percent of applications for asylum in Iceland have been accepted so far this year. A total of 128 of the 137 applications processed by the end of September were rejected, Morgunblaðið...
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Boat carrying Muslim Rohingya sinks off Burma
A boat carrying 70 ethnic minority Muslim Rohingya capsized Sunday off the western coast of Burma, an aid worker said. Only eight survivors have been found. The boat was in the Bay of Bengal and...
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Malaysia: Over 38,000 flood victims throng relief centres in Pahang
Heavy rain continued since early today while the number of flood evacuees at the 116 relief centres in Pahang reached a total of 38,235 at 1.30pm. A spokesman for the flood operations room, state...
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Lybia: Tawerghans struggle to dry out flooded camps
For displaced Tawerghans living in five camps around Tripoli, drying out temporary and overcrowded accommodation after two days of heavy rain is still posing a challenge. While many Tripoli residents...
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Syrian refugees facing extreme hardship as blizzards hit region
Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees are enduring blizzards, biting winds and freezing rain as the worst winter storm for decades sweeps across the Middle East. Aid agencies are warning of extreme...
View ArticleOver 60 migrants dead after boat sinks off Yemen
At least 60 African migrants and two Yemeni crew members perished in sea off Yemen’s coast last weekend, in a boat sinking that has just come to light and is believed to be the deadliest there this...
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Mediterranean Shipwrecks Leave Over 700 Refugees Dead
Sep 15, 2014 About 500 migrants are feared to have drowned after the boat carrying them from Egypt to Malta was apparently rammed and deliberately sunk by people-traffickers, an intergovernmental...
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