LA PAZ, Mexico, Oct. 11, 2008 (Reuters) — Hurricane Norbert smacked Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Saturday, blowing roofs off buildings, knocking down trees and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate flood-prone areas. ... > full story
GROZNY, Russia, Oct. 11, 2008 (Reuters) — Four people were killed in Russia's Chechnya region Saturday when an earthquake shook the Caucasus mountains, the Emergencies Ministry said. ... > full story
VIENNA, Oct. 11, 2008 (Reuters) — Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider, a charismatic populist who helped thrust anti-immigrant politics into the European mainstream, was killed in a car accident on Saturday. ... > full story
HAVANA, Oct. 9, 2008 (Reuters) — Communist Cuba has begun leasing land to private farmers, cooperatives and state companies for the first time in decades in a step forward for one of President Raul Castro's main economic reforms, official media said this week. ... > full story
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 8, 2008 (Reuters) — Hurricane Norbert became an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm in the Pacific on Wednesday and headed for Mexico's Baja California peninsula where it was due to hit land this weekend. ... > full story
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Oct. 8, 2008 (Reuters) — An apartment building collapsed in the city of Alexandria on Egypt's northern coast overnight, killing at least 11 people, Egyptian state media said on Wednesday. ... > full story
KATHMANDU, Oct. 8, 2008 (Reuters) — A small private plane crashed in the remote mountains of northeast Nepal Wednesday, killing at least 18 people, mostly foreigners, airline and airport officials said. ... > full story
BEIJING, Oct. 8, 2008 (Reuters) — Officials in the north Chinese province at the heart of a toxic milk scandal hid a coal mine explosion that killed more than 30 miners three weeks before the Beijing Olympics, state media reported. ... > full story
BEIJING, Oct. 7, 2008 (Reuters) — China closed schools in Tibet's capital for safety reasons on Tuesday a day after a huge earthquake struck to the west and months after hundreds of classrooms were flattened in a devastating quake in Sichuan. ... > full story
BEIJING, Oct. 6, 2008 (Reuters) — A magnitude 6.6 earthquake killed at least 30 people in Tibet on Monday with a number of people buried in debris, Xinhua news agency said. ... > full story
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