Psychological scars run deep one year after Bam earthquake in Iran
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Domestic violence and drug addiction mar the Iranian city of Bam as residents suffer psychological problems one year after a massive earthquake killed more than 26,000 of their relatives, friends and neighbours, the Red Cross federation said.
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan  - Pakistan united in mourning on Sunday to remember around 73,000 people killed in an earthquake exactly a year ago.
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Millions of people may have survived the deadliest tsunami in living memory, but many are so deeply traumatised it will take years for them to heal, if ever, medical experts said on Monday.
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A year after coming home from Iraq, AJ Jefferson is still fighting the war in eerie nightmares about the bomb that left him and two comrades seriously wounded. The 21-year-old soldier was diagnosed severe post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. Now he is re-running the attack in his nightmares. "I have the dreams every night," he said. "My brain will not let go of it."
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Children who grow up with alcoholic parents bear emotional, behavioural and mental scars, experts say.
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A year after a catastrophic earthquake ripped through South Asia, up to 60,000 survivors face another winter in tents despite some progress in rebuilding the shattered region.
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Hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires: a year after Katrina, a tour of the American hazardscape shows that we haven't learned much
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MACHIARA, Pakistan  - When the earthquake hit a year ago, the walls of the government dispensary in the remote mountain village of Machiara crumbled.
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WARSAW, Poland  - Jerzy Afanasjew's body tenses  and his eyes close when he recalls the day he crawled out from  the overcrowded cattle train as a 14-year-old boy to begin a  six-month nightmare.
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Indonesia's idyllic island is slowly recovering from 2002's deadly blast, but for its victims, healing may take longer
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For many of the men and women who had  spent years at the sharp end of the Irish Republican Army's  (IRA) violent campaign against British rule in Northern  Ireland, August 31, 1994 was an emotional day.
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Witness accounts after huge waves triggered by an earthquake devastated Asia.
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MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J. -- The day after the tsunami barreled across Indian Ocean shores, Anushka Nadarajah felt a wave of emotion wash over her. "I saw a video of a young girl who had lost her parents," the 15-year-old said. "She was asking them to come back and find her. But they were probably never coming back."
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Pilar Albarado spent five months after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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A year after they returned home, members of a badly battered Marine Corps unit are still finding it hard to adjust to their civilian lives.
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One of Iraqâs most sacred Shiite shrines, the Imam al-Askari mosque in Samarra, was attacked and severely damaged again today, just over a year after the previous attack on the site unleashed a tide of national sectarian bloodletting.
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MEUNASAH BAK'U, Indonesia  - Teungku Sobirin lost his seven children and home to the tsunami that devastated Indonesia's Aceh province two years ago, but he believes there was a lesson in it for the war-weary province.