Monsoon Devastates Village in Nepal Thapra
Monsoon rains trigger a landslide in Thapra Nepal wiping out 33 homes and leaving 41 dead as villagers recount the tragedy. Rescue teams reached the site after a day as helicopters ferried aid from Kathmandu. Some bodies recovered, others remain buried in mud with recovery hampered by rugged terrain. The disaster echoes across Asia as monsoons affect millions.
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Southae
Nepal
Indra Basnet
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Basnet
Asia
India
China
Bangladesh
Evacuation scale rises as China floods threaten Dongting Lake
More than 250000 people evacuated from areas around a rain swollen lake in central China. Over 1 million mobilized to shore up dikes in Hunan province as rising waters flood towns and homes. Since June flooding has killed nearly 1000 people across Asia, with vast displacements in India and Bangladesh noted.
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Yueyang
China
Dongting Lake
Hunan
Europe
Asia
India
Bangladesh
Nepal
Prosecution Dismisses Abu Nidal Link to Lockerbie Bombing
The Scottish prosecutors rejected a published claim that Abu Nidal masterminded the 1988 Lockerbie attack. The report cited Atef Abu Bakr of Fatah Revolutionary Council. The Megrahi conviction remains in force. German police report over 100 Islamist suspects trained abroad, forming a transnational crime network.
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Lockerbie
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Atef Abu Bakr
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Pan Am
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi
Netherlands
al- Megrahi
Afghanistan
Chechnya
Bosnia
Somalia
Africa
Middle East
Ulrich Kersten
BKA
Federal Police
Kersten
Europe
America
Canada
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Far East
Heavy fighting continues near Chechen village as toll rises
Russian troops battled rebels for a fourth day outside a Chechen village Friday. Officials said eight soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours. Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov cited information about a rebel group possibly linked to Monday’s helicopter crash in Chechnya that killed 116 people, but he declined to name the group.
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Chechnya
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