Thousands flee Colombian volcano
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A volcano erupts in southern Colombia, prompting the evacuation of 8,000 residents of a nearby city.
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Three Irishmen convicted of training rebels in Colombia have fled the country, its attorney general tells Reuters.
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Tens of thousands of people are being moved out of their homes in the central Philippines in the face of an &quot;imminent&quot; eruption of the rumbling Mayon volcano, officials said.
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VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico  - Thousands of people fled a Mexican city on Friday after flood waters burst through sandbag barriers in a disaster that left 800,000 people homeless and most of the state of Tabasco under water.
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Tens of thousands of people in the Philippines are moved to emergency shelter to escape Typhoon Utor.
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A forest fire near the Mediterranean coastline in northeastern Spain forced the evacuation of thousands of people, officials said Wednesday.
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Tens of thousands of East Timorese fled their burning capital or sought refuge in churches, embassies and the airport on Sunday as gangs terrorized neighborhoods virtually at will. The United Nations evacuated hundreds of employees.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - Heavy rain and flooding  have forced the evacuation of more than 5,000 Costa Ricans, and  left four people missing.
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A volcanic eruption on the Papua New Guinea island of New Britain on Saturday caused panicked residents to flee homes and sent ash plumes 18 kilometres into the air.
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About 700 people were evacuated as a volcano erupted Wednesday in southern Chile, rocking the area with explosions and spewing lava and ash.
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A mud volcano that forced  more than 15,000 people to abandon their homes on the  Indonesian island of Java in 2006 has breached the barriers  built to contain it, causing further damage, police said.
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More than half a million Jamaicans fled their homes today as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the island with 150 mph winds. It left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the death toll of 23 was expected to rise.
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A Venezuelan-led mission to rescue three hostages, including a 3-year old boy, from leftist rebels in Colombia's jungles fell apart Monday as the guerrillas accused Colombia's military of sabotaging the promised handoff.
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More than 35,000 Colombian Indians marched in a violence-wracked region Tuesday to protest attacks against Indians and a free-trade pact pursued by the United States &#151; forming a column that coiled over the rolling, green countryside.
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About 700,000 Colombians have taken part in nationwide protests against President Alvaro Uribe.
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Thousands of people flee the path of a strengthened Hurricane John as it takes aim at north-west Mexico.
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Panicked residents scrambled to flee three storm-ravaged coastal Philippine towns on Sunday while rescuers made last-ditch attempts to find survivors of the powerful storm that left more than 1,100 dead and missing.