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Reuters - Having lost loved ones and their homes to an earthquake and then what was left of their belongings to floodwaters, victims of China's worst disaster in decades spoke stoically of starting again on Wednesday.

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MIANYANG, China (Reuters) - Having lost loved ones and their homes to an earthquake and then what was left of their belongings to floodwaters, victims of China's worst disaster in decades spoke stoically of starting again on Wednesday.

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Residents seek anything of value that will allow them to piece together some of what was snatched by the quake.Source : International Herald Tribune (subscribe)

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Residents seek anything of value that will allow them to piece together some of what was snatched by the quake.

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Soldiers combed the mountains in China's Sichuan province for a military helicopter that crashed while transporting earthquake victims. Meanwhile, troops completed a channel to divert potential floods from a lake formed by quake-triggered landslides.

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Chinese authorities prepared on Saturday to drain a swelling lake formed by a devastating earthquake, completing work on a drainage channel to divert water that threatens hundreds of thousands downstream. Source : CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (subscribe)

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AFP - The rescue of 40 half-starved people from a remote village 16 days after China's earthquake provided a rare piece of good news as rain threatened more misery for millions of survivors.

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With millions of people downstream threatened, soldiers and engineers are at work as evacuations continue.

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China struggled to keep roads open to provide a lifeline for quake survivors, while the government warned Wednesday that rebuilding ... Source : USA Today (subscribe)

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AP - China struggled to keep roads open to provide a lifeline for quake survivors, while the government warned Wednesday that rebuilding after the disaster would be "arduous."

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YINGXIU, China (Reuters) - Among the ruins of Yingxiu at the epicenter of China's calamitous earthquake, survivors remain, defying the pall of death to keep vigil over lost loved ones or even now looking to rebuild homes amid the devastation.

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Reuters - Among the ruins of Yingxiu at the epicenter of China's calamitous earthquake, survivors remain, defying the pall of death to keep vigil over lost loved ones or even now looking to rebuild homes amid the devastation.

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State media reported that 129 students and 10 teachers were rescued in an isolated village in Wenchuan County.

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China says quake has left nearly 40,000 dead, over 5 million people homeless. Source : ABC News (subscribe)Explore : Business, China

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The Chinese government has decided: Beichuan will never live again. At least not in the valley where its ruins cover the hillside.

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AFP - Thousands of terrified survivors of China's earthquake huddled in the open with their meagre belongings Tuesday as an aftershock struck and the government warned of more powerful ones to come.

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BEICHUAN, China -- Six days after an earthquake caused China's worst disaster in a generation, the search for anyone left alive in the rubble turned glum.Source : Detroit Free Press (subscribe)

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As the search for survivors was scaled back in many areas, officials announced a three-day mourning period during which the Olympic torch relay will be halted.

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As the search for survivors was scaled back in many places, officials announced a three-day mourning period during which the Olympic torch relay will be halted.

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AFP - A powerful aftershock claimed more lives in China's southwest on Sunday, bringing new misery to the region and hampering relief efforts as the death toll from last week's quake shot up.

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A strong aftershock rattles areas still reeling from last week's massive earthquake in China, shaking frayed nerves of survivors and slowing rescue and relief efforts.

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AP - The search for survivors in the rubble of China's powerful earthquake grew bleak Sunday, with rescuers in some areas no longer listening for trapped victims.

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AP - The search for survivors in the rubble of China's powerful earthquake grew bleak Sunday, with rescuers in some areas no longer listening for trapped victims.

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Xinhua Beichuan (China), May 18 (Xinhua) Two survivors of the May 12 earthquake that killed more than 28,000 people were rescued after over 100 hours of being trapped underneath rubble of buildings. A man was rescued at 9.15 a.m. Sunday from a collapsed hospital of Beichuan in southwest China?s Sichuan province, 139 hours after the devastating [...]Source : Thaindian News (subscribe)

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AFP - A powerful aftershock rattled China's southwest early Sunday, hampering frantic efforts to find earthquake survivors and help nearly five million people facing the risk of disease and flood.

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BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - Thousands of soldiers and families looking for missing kin streamed into one of the worst affected areas of China's massive earthquake on Sunday, as a strong new aftershock hit and the death toll neared 30,000.

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Reuters - Thousands of soldiers and families looking for missing kin streamed into one of the worst affected areas of China's massive earthquake on Sunday, as a strong new aftershock hit and the death toll neared 30,000.

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AFP - With survivors still emerging from the rubble Saturday nearly 115 hours after disaster struck, rescue teams waged an increasingly desperate battle to find victims of China's earthquake which has claimed an estimated 50,000 lives.

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Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao urged rescuers in the southwestern province of Sichuan to race to save lives, days after the most destructive earthquake to hit modern China, state media said on Saturday.

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DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao urged rescuers in the southwestern province of Sichuan to race to save lives, days after the most destructive earthquake to hit modern China, state media said on Saturday.

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Rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble Friday who had been buried for four days as a strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this week's powerful earthquake.

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A strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this week's powerful earthquake Friday, burying vehicles and again cutting off ravaged areas of central China.

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AP - Rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble Friday who had been buried for four days as a strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this week's powerful earthquake.

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AFP - Cries for help echoed from under the rubble of shattered communities Friday as China warned time was running out to save survivors of an earthquake that has claimed an estimated 50,000 lives.

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Despite some remarkable successes in rescuing survivors four days after the earthquake, relief officials know the time for miracles is running out.

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Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in the country's devastated earthquake zone Friday to support frantic search-and-rescue efforts, state media reported, as survivors continued to be pulled from the rubble four days after the quake struck.

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AFP - China on Friday allowed the first foreign rescue teams to join the desperate search for earthquake survivors, but time was running out with an estimated 50,000 people already dead.

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SHIFANG, China (Reuters) - China struggled on Friday to bury the dead and offer relief to those left injured, homeless and without food and water by the earthquake that may have killed more than 50,000 people.

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Reuters - China struggled on Friday to bury the dead and offer relief to those left injured, homeless and without food and water by the earthquake that may have killed more than 50,000 people.

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SHIFANG, China (Reuters) - China struggled on Friday to bury the dead and offer relief to those left injured, homeless and without food and water by the earthquake that may have killed more than 50,000 people.

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Reuters - China struggled on Friday to bury the dead and offer relief to those left injured, homeless and without food and water by the earthquake that may have killed more than 50,000 people.

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At 2:28 p.m. on Monday, Liu Wei was at his desk in the animal-breeding center, where he works as a researcher, when his world began to shake.

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Officials warned that the death toll, raised now to 19,500, could reach as high as 50,000, as dozens of villages remained cut off from rescuers Thursday.

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At least three dozen villages and towns in were still cut off from rescuers, as the death toll was raised to 19,500, with 40,000 still buried in rubble, according to officials.

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Military helicopters dropped food and medicine to Chinese earthquake survivors who remained cut off in remote mountain villages, while a jump in deaths pushed the official toll close to 15,000. Troops rushed to shore up cracks in a dam.

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China announced grim news Wednesday from the epicenter of this week's earthquake: About three-quarters of one town's residents have perished. The official death toll has surpassed 12,000.

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AFP - The death toll from China's worst earthquake in a generation rose early Wednesday as more details emerged of the scale of destruction that has left tens of thousands dead, missing or buried under rubble.

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Tens of thousands of people across southwest China remained buried beneath rubble after a massive earthquake that has left thousands dead.Source : International Herald Tribune (subscribe)Explore : Business, China

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AFP - The death toll from China's worst earthquake in a generation rose early Wednesday as more details emerged of the scale of destruction that has left tens of thousands dead, missing or buried under rubble.

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