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108 killed after landslides strike India tea estates

Landslides in India triggered by pounding monsoon rains struck tea plantations and killed at least 108 people Tuesday, with at least 250 others rescued from mud and debris. The southern coastal state of Kerala has been battered by torrential downpours, with blocked roads into the disaster area in Wayanad district …

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Man leaves US life to work in remote Vietnamese mountains

When Daniel Nguyen Hoai Tien learned his Vietnamese name meant “always moving forward,” he realized his return to his homeland was imminent. Before 2008 Tien had been living in California with only a vague idea of Vietnam, occasionally hearing his parents and neighbours mention it. The man, born in 1988, …

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