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More than 100,000 Syrians sought refugee status during August in what the United Nations describes as an eye-popping escalation in the pace of departures since the hostilities began.

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The United Nations says 9 million people need humanitarian assistance in the drought-hit countries of the Horn of Africa.

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Three people died following an aerial bombing by the north on a village in Southern Sudan, an official said Friday, as tensions between the two regions continued to escalate days before the south's independence in July.

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Aid workers, with the help of Google Earth, are uploading key information onto the Web to illustrate the needs of hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by Haiti's earthquake — an innovation that could significantly boost the ability to respond to future disasters.

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The 40 retirees enjoying summer vacation at a seaside campground nestled under pine trees knew they had to move fast after Chile's powerful earthquake struck.

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Rescuers found signs of life in a quake-toppled building on yesterday as the world offered aid to victims of a catastrophe that killed more than 700 people. Troops and police cracking down on looters arrested dozens of people for violating a curfew.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A lack of sanitation threatens to create killer diseases in the vast refugee camps where hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors have crammed in together, relief officials said Saturday.The need for latrines has joined food, water and shelter as a major concern.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — They are the latest scenes of survival and of death in Haiti's deadliest disaster — a looter shot dead for breaking into an appliance store and crowds erecting new houses on shaky ground. 

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Hundreds gathered for the funeral of the archbishop of Haiti's stricken capital on yesterday, a rare formal ceremony that captured the collective mourning of a shattered nation where mass graves hold many of the dead.

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Drumbeats called the faithful to a yesterday Mass praising God amid a scene resembling the Apocalypse — a collapsed cathedral in a city cloaked with the smell of death, where aid is slow to reach survivors and rescue crews battle to pry an ever-smaller number of the living from the ruins.

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Aid workers, with the help of Google Earth, are uploading key information onto the Web to illustrate the needs of hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by Haiti's earthquake — an innovation that could significantly boost the ability to respond to future disasters.

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Drumbeats called the faithful to a yesterday Mass praising God amid a scene resembling the Apocalypse — a collapsed cathedral in a city cloaked with the smell of death, where aid is slow to reach survivors and rescue crews battle to pry an ever-smaller number of the living from the ruins.

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