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...disaster: 52 known dead and 637 still missing - donated five trucks and made equipment loans and other contributions valued at $2 million, all of which went to Indonesia for reconstruction in northern Sumatra. "This is a big catastrophe for people living in the region and it's our way of showing our involvement," says Scania chief financial officer Jan Gurander. Mobile-phone company Vodafone Group donated $1.7 million to relief groups, and $187,000 to Télécoms sans Frontières, which installs mobile networks in areas blighted by disaster and war, and MapAction, which performs satellite...
Catholics and protestants in Northern Ireland have seen peace deals fall apart time and again. But when the latest push for a final settlement between nationalists and unionists ran aground last week, it was due to a novel deal breaker: a $50 million bank heist. Ulster's Chief Constable, Hugh Orde, announced Friday that he believed the brazen Dec. 20 robbery from the Belfast headquarters of Northern Bank had been the work of the I.R.A. - a statement that immediately derailed a power-sharing deal that had seemed close to a positive conclusion just weeks earlier. The I.R.A. denied involvement...
...Pintier was flying light and low above the northern wilds of the Democratic Republic of Congo when he saw a dark shape racing between two patches of tropical forest. "It was huge," says Pontier, a missionary pilot. "It was black. The skin was kind of bouncing up and down on it." From its bulk and color, Pontier thought it was a buffalo until he circled down for another look. "I saw it again just before it went into the forest," he says. "It was an ape--and a big one." Not buffalo size...
Danger from afar A tsunami triggered by an Alaskan earthquake in 1964 swept four children off a beach in Newport, Ore. It also claimed 12 lives in Northern California...
Elsewhere, relief workers have found themselves caught up in civil wars that have been raging for years. In Sri Lanka, there were hopes for some kind of peace, however temporary, between government forces and the Tamil Tiger rebels who have waged a 21-year war for independence in the northern part of the country. Scores of displaced Tamil families taking refuge in a school in Kudathanai had gratefully accepted food and water brought by government soldiers. But when soldiers arrived with a specially cooked New Year's meal, refugees refused it on orders from a rebel. That night part...