Refugees Return to Goma Amid Lava Threats
Thousands of Congo refugees ignore relief workers as Mount Nyiragongo trembles and lava flows threaten Goma. U.N. urges staying in camps for safety while thousands attempt to reclaim homes and cross Lake Kivu for water and transport.
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Goma
Congo
Mount Nyiragongo
U.N
Kivu
Rwanda
Augustin Mirenge
Laura Melo
The
World Food Program
Lake Kivu
Dieudonne Waffulah
Red Cross
Onusumba
Bukavu
Kalemie
Fiji Banza
Melo
Kigali
Ofisi
Nyiragongo
U.S. troop deployment stirs mixed Philippine memories
Manila reports 660 American troops arrive with 160 Special Forces to train Filipino forces against Abu Sayyaf linked to al Qaeda. The piece notes a love hate history, fears of combat, and echoes of the Philippine American War, WWII, and long U.S. cultural influence including jeepneys and hamburgers.
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Manila
Philippines
Japan
U.S
Philippine
Amado Mendoza
University of the Philippines
United States
Osama bin Laden
al-Qaida
Abu Sayyaf
Corona
Calif
Guillermo Sobero
Sobero
Martin and
Gracia Burnham
Wichita
Kan
Basilan
Palestinians rally for Arafat as gunbattle wounds rise
Thousands march in Ramallah and Gaza to protest Israel's siege of Yasser Arafat who remains confined in Ramallah for a third day. A tank is stuck in a Ramallah street triggering a gunbattle. twelve Palestinians and one Israeli soldier are wounded. The DFLP then says it will resume attacks.
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Ramallah
West Bank
Israel
Yasser Arafat
Arafat
Ariel Sharon
Palestinian Authority
Fatah
Palestinian Broadcasting Center
Palestinian Territories
Gaza City
Sharon
Ali Abu Mustafa
Nabil Aburdeneh
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
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Waffulah
Adolphe Onusumba
Rally For Democracy
Asim Abubakar
Paris
Balangiga
Jacob Smith
South
Abubakar
Mark Twain
Twain
Anti-Imperialist League
Philippine Senate
Subic Bay
U.S. Navy
Voice of Palestine Radio
Palestinian Television
Democratic Front For Liberation of Palestine
DFLP
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