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"Lost Everything": Tales Of Despair After China's Record Rains
Homes in ruins, pulverised roads and a sea of mud coating cars, the once affluent central Chinese town of Mihe was still in shock Thursday as residents turned to food handouts and slept rough after record-breaking storms.
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Coronavirus - Delhi's Poor Depend On Handouts To Survive COVID-19 Lockdown
Even amid the coronavirus lockdown, 56-year-old Mohammad Shahzad drives his rickshaw for over a kilometre every day - not to ferry passengers but to go and queue up for food twice a day.
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George Bush Delivers Pizza To Unpaid Secret Service Agents Amid Shutdown
George W. Bush has been an unintentional beneficiary of the Trump administration, his reputation buoyed with the benefit of time and an unpopular president from his own party.
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Food Handouts Prompt Row In Shortage-Hit Venezuela
Venezuelans facing severe food shortages might have been expected to welcome heavily subsidized bags of rice, milk and other staples -- but the controversy didn't take long to set in.
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In Greek Crisis, Priest Buys Inmates Their Freedom
Germany made headlines this week by letting Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One chief, pay $100 million to end his bribery trial. In Greek justice, money talks in a different way: Some inmates jailed for minor offences are allowed to buy their freedom - at an average rate of five euros per day.
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French Police Clear 600 Migrants From Channel Camps
French police early on Wednesday cleared a food handout centre and three squats in the port of Calais occupied by more than 600 migrants waiting to try to illegally cross the Channel to Britain.
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"Lost Everything": Tales Of Despair After China's Record Rains
Homes in ruins, pulverised roads and a sea of mud coating cars, the once affluent central Chinese town of Mihe was still in shock Thursday as residents turned to food handouts and slept rough after record-breaking storms.
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Coronavirus - Delhi's Poor Depend On Handouts To Survive COVID-19 Lockdown
Even amid the coronavirus lockdown, 56-year-old Mohammad Shahzad drives his rickshaw for over a kilometre every day - not to ferry passengers but to go and queue up for food twice a day.
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George Bush Delivers Pizza To Unpaid Secret Service Agents Amid Shutdown
George W. Bush has been an unintentional beneficiary of the Trump administration, his reputation buoyed with the benefit of time and an unpopular president from his own party.
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Food Handouts Prompt Row In Shortage-Hit Venezuela
Venezuelans facing severe food shortages might have been expected to welcome heavily subsidized bags of rice, milk and other staples -- but the controversy didn't take long to set in.
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In Greek Crisis, Priest Buys Inmates Their Freedom
Germany made headlines this week by letting Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One chief, pay $100 million to end his bribery trial. In Greek justice, money talks in a different way: Some inmates jailed for minor offences are allowed to buy their freedom - at an average rate of five euros per day.
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French Police Clear 600 Migrants From Channel Camps
French police early on Wednesday cleared a food handout centre and three squats in the port of Calais occupied by more than 600 migrants waiting to try to illegally cross the Channel to Britain.
