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7.3 Quake Off Sumatra Tsunami Alert

Indonesia issued a tsunami warning on Wednesday after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off northern Sumatra, panicking local residents

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Smog Grounds Flights In Beijing

BEIJING — More than 150 flights to and from Beijing were cancelled or delayed on Tuesday as a thick

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7 Indonesian Volcanoes On Alert

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency has warned that seven volcanoes located across the archipelago are on alert statuses. The

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6.6 Quake Hits Santa Cruz No Tsunami

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake was recorded Monday off the Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The quake's epicenter was

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Drought Kills Half A Billion Trees

The massive drought that has dried out Texas over the past year has killed as many as half a

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Iceberg Stops Centenary Plans

An iceberg nearly 100 kilometres (60 miles) long was Wednesday preventing tourist ships from reaching Antarctica to mark the

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40 Years To Scrap Fukushima Plant

..TOKYO (Reuters) - Decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will take three or four decades, Japan's government said on

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Taiwan Culls 1000’s Pigs

Taiwanese authorities said Thursday they had slaughtered nearly 1,000 pigs following the island's worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in

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Pilbara Hits Trough Record Heat

A town in Western Australia's Pilbara region has been feeling the heat, sizzling through the second-hottest December day ever

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Philippines Appeal For Flood Aid

The United Nations is calling for about $28 million in funding to help those affected by last weekend's devastating

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