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Sunday, 12 October 2014

India lashed by big cyclone; typhoon hits Japan

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(AP) — Heavy rains and gusts ripped through a large swath of India's eastern seaboard, uprooting trees and snapping power cables as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal and slammed into the southern city of Visakhapatnam, one of two storms pounding Asia on Sunday. In...
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Monday, 29 September 2014

Death, Hunger Stalk Indian Tea-Estate Workers

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(AP) — Death arrived soon after the Bundapani tea estate closed last year. Deprived of health care and food rations, workers who had been scraping by on $1.50 per day were left with nothing. Bundapani's owner failed to raise the alarm as hundreds of workers slid into catastrophe. "I...
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