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...Friday in Assam, 211 people were dead and 1.3 million were forced to shelter in 1,500 relief camps. In Bihar, 520 people were killed, half a million houses were destroyed and 5.2 million hectares flooded. Farmer Kapelshwar Bhagat, 30, saw 25 neighbors drown in a day, including his 62-year-old uncle who slipped into the torrent after trying to save his own son. Now, Bhagat's one-year-old daughter has cholera and he has only enough wheat to last his family two months. "We're told the floods won't drain from our fields until winter...
...more than 36 hours for alleged "human trafficking" while reporting on Montagnard refugees; in Ratanakiri province. Doyle, along with another journalist and a human-rights worker, was held by military authorities in northeast Cambodia, where hundreds of Montagnards fleeing Vietnam are attempting to reach the safety of a shelter provided by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...
...muddy open sewers, increased the threat of disease, and complicated the distribution of emergency food in the region and in neighboring Chad, where 200,000 people have taken refuge. "We need to stop the attacks," says Lynn Heinisch, of U.S. aid group CARE, "and get them food, medicines and shelter before it's too late." Getting Closure SPAIN A judge investigating the Madrid train bombings charged a Lebanese man in connection with the attacks. Mahmoud Slimane Aoun was detained on suspicion of involvement with other suspects accused over the bombings. And an Italian court approved the extradition to Spain...
...Together with Marumba and Pastor Rhys, last June the trio helped construct a temporary church shelter from scrap metal on the community common. "We put it up to show the people that there is a church here," says Smith. "Out here in the open, we can preach to anyone." Marumba won't be doing too much of that in the distant future; he'd like to take his wife and two young sons back to Kenya for a holiday. "I'm very tired," he admits. "Much too much." Already he can do some resting on his laurels. Out here...
...moment we arrived on the island it started to pour, and we had to scrap all the meaningful and rewarding team-building activities we had planned as we waited under a wooden shelter by the dock for the rain to subside...