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On 12th January 2010, Haiti was hit by a powerful earthquake with the epicentre about 25 km from the capital Port-au-Prince. The death toll was well over a 100,000 people, and some estimates put the ...

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The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain ...

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The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain in 1948, when it was still called Burma BANGKOK -- The Southeast Asian ...

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