Chile quake toll rises to 708, emergency declared 01 March 2010, 01-0 Hrs
Santiago, March 1 (DPA) Searchers scoured the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors Sunday as the toll from the devastating earthquake that hit Chile reached 708.
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Bomb or no bomb, foreigners will stay in Pune 15 February 2010, 15-1 Hrs
Pune, Feb 15 H. Nicolas, the Canadian creative director for a gaming company, had planned to have dinner at the German Bakery the day it was bombed to rubble claiming nine lives. The 36-year-old may be shaken but says he has no intention of quitting Pune - or India.
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170,000 bodies of quake victims recovered in Haiti 29 January 2010, 29-0 Hrs
Nearly 170,000 bodies have been recovered from the rubble as the rescue works continued since the devastating earthquake hit this Haitian capital city Jan 12.
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Haiti man rescued 11 days after quake 24 January 2010, 24-0 Hrs
Port-au-Prince, Jan 24 (DPA) A young man has been found alive under the rubble of a hotel in Haiti's capital, 11 days after a massive earthquake that left much of Haiti in ruins, television broadcaster CNN reported Saturday.
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22-day-old Baby rescued in Haiti 21 January 2010, 21-0 Hrs
Bogota, Jan 21 (DPA) Colombian and French aid workers rescued a 22-day-old baby-girl, after she spent a week in the rubble of the devastating quake in Haiti, the Bogota Fire Department said Wednesday.
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Survivors found in Haiti supermarket rubble 18 January 2010, 18-1 Hrs
Port-au-Prince/Washington, Jan 18 (DPA) A Haitian who was rescued after being buried for five days in a crushed supermarket Sunday gave a triumphal thumbs-up as Turkish and US rescuers helped him out, CNN reported.
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Chile finds 23 survivors in Haiti hotel rubble 15 January 2010, 15-1 Hrs
Santiago de Chile, Jan 15 (DPA) The Chilean government said Friday that international rescue workers had located 23 survivors in the rubble of a hotel in Haiti.
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Haiti casualties may be 'very high', 150 UN staff missing 14 January 2010, 14-2 Hrs
New York, Jan 14 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described quake-stricken Haiti as 'grim' Thursday as rescuers worked frantically to save people buried under rubble, and at least 150 members of the UN mission staff there remained missing.
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Tens of thousands feared dead in Haitian earthquake 14 January 2010, 14-1 Hrs
Port-au- Prince, Jan 14 (DPA) Tens of thousands of people are feared to have perished in an earthquake in Haiti as the international community rushed Thursday to help the impoverished Caribbean nation rescue victims whose cries could still be heard from under mountains of rubble.
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Thousands in Haiti capital's streets amid death, destruction 14 January 2010, 14-1 Hrs
Santo Domingo, Jan 14 (IANS/EFE) Thousands of people awoke in the streets of Port-au-Prince, where they spent the night amid the death and destruction wrought by the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti, shattering buildings and leaving untold numbers of people dead or trapped in the rubble.
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