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Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds
Source: The Associated Press
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert.
Both women are here to support the same man, 34-year-old Claudio Yanez, one of the 33 trapped miners in Northern Chile. But they barely acknowledge each other, thanks to wounds created many years ago, and have been fighting over who should get Yanez's salary and donations that have come from all ov… Click to Read More
Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds
Source: The Associated Press
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert.
Both women are here to support the same man, 34-year-old Claudio Yanez, one of the 33 trapped miners in Northern Chile. But they barely acknowledge each other, thanks to wounds created many years ago, and have been fighting over who should get Yanez's salary and donations that have come from all ov… Click to Read More
Pakistan's flooded farms unable to be sown
Source: The Associated Press
SHAH JAMAL, Pakistan (AP) Abid Hussein fears the deep floodwaters that destroyed his cotton crop, rotted his wheat seeds and swept away his farming tools are not done ravaging his life.
Just weeks before the wheat planting season is to start, his 1.5-acre (0.6-hectare) farm still lies under 3 feet (0.9 meter) of water, and he is certain it will not drain in time.
"I will not be able to plant," the 35-year-old father of four said in despair.
… Click to Read MorePakistan's flooded farms unable to be sown
Source: The Associated Press
SHAH JAMAL, Pakistan (AP) Abid Hussein fears the deep floodwaters that destroyed his cotton crop, rotted his wheat seeds and swept away his farming tools are not done ravaging his life.
Just weeks before the wheat planting season is to start, his 1.5-acre (0.6-hectare) farm still lies under 3 feet (0.9 meter) of water, and he is certain it will not drain in time.
"I will not be able to plant," the 35-year-old father of four said in despair.
… Click to Read MorePakistan's flooded farms unable to be sown
Source: The Associated Press
SHAH JAMAL, Pakistan (AP) Abid Hussein fears the deep floodwaters that destroyed his cotton crop, rotted his wheat seeds and swept away his farming tools are not done ravaging his life.
Just weeks before the wheat planting season is to start, his 1.5-acre (0.6-hectare) farm still lies under 3 feet (0.9 meter) of water, and he is certain it will not drain in time.
"I will not be able to plant," the 35-year-old father of four said in despair.
… Click to Read MorePakistan's flooded farms unable to be sown
Source: The Associated Press
SHAH JAMAL, Pakistan (AP) Abid Hussein fears the deep floodwaters that destroyed his cotton crop, rotted his wheat seeds and swept away his farming tools are not done ravaging his life.
Just weeks before the wheat planting season is to start, his 1.5-acre (0.6-hectare) farm still lies under 3 feet (0.9 meter) of water, and he is certain it will not drain in time.
"I will not be able to plant," the 35-year-old father of four said in despair.
… Click to Read MoreGuatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit
Source: The Associated Press
NAHUALA, Guatemala (AP) Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala most of them in separate disasters along the same highway.
In the village of Nahuala, rescue crews on Sunday searched through mud and rocks for bodies after two landslides in the same spot killed at least 20 people along a highway leading northwest of the capital toward Mexico.
A slide Saturday afternoon had t… Click to Read More
Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit
Source: The Associated Press
NAHUALA, Guatemala (AP) Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala most of them in separate disasters along the same highway.
In the village of Nahuala, rescue crews on Sunday searched through mud and rocks for bodies after two landslides in the same spot killed at least 20 people along a highway leading northwest of the capital toward Mexico.
A slide Saturday afternoon had t… Click to Read More
Congo boat catches fire, capsizes; 200 feared dead
Source: The Associated Press
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) A riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, and 200 people were feared dead, a survivor said Sunday. A local official confirmed the boat had tipped but said the passenger manifest apparently vanished in the fire.
It would be the deadliest boat accident in the Central African nation this year, and among the worst in Africa this year.
Fabrice Muamba, who said he was on the boat… Click to Read More
Congo boat catches fire, capsizes; 200 feared dead
Source: The Associated Press
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) A riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, and 200 people were feared dead, a survivor said Sunday. A local official confirmed the boat had tipped but said the passenger manifest apparently vanished in the fire.
It would be the deadliest boat accident in the Central African nation this year, and among the worst in Africa this year.
Fabrice Muamba, who said he was on the boat… Click to Read More
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