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Pacific Islands
1,000 homeless in Solomon Islands after quake CBC News 01/04/2010 | Four major quakes strike South Pacific CNN 10/08/2009 |
 Landslides and a tsunami unleashed by a major earthquake destroyed about 200 houses on one of the Solomon Islands, leaving about one-third of the population homeless, a disaster management official said Tuesday. |  For the fourth time in less than 11 hours, a major earthquake rocked the South Pacific Ocean near the island nation of Vanuatu on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. |
Samoa plans mass burial, at least 180 feared dead in tsunamiCherelle Jackson 10/02/2009 | Fresh quake near Tonga, tsunami toll nears 200Tim Wimborne Reuters 10/01/2009 |
 APIA, Samoa — Samoa is planning a mass burial for victims of the tsunami that devastated the Pacific island earlier this week, the government said, as the death toll from the disaster crept towards 200. |  Grieving Samoans buried their dead in unmarked beachside graves on Thursday as the gruesome task of recovering bodies from villages destroyed by four tsunamis continued and an aftershock shook the region. |
Samoan islands shaken by second quake CNN 09/30/2009 | Samoas' tsunami death toll rises to 113TAMARA MCLEAN The Sydney Morning Herald 09/29/2009 |
 LEONE, American Samoa (CNN) -- Another earthquake struck Wednesday near the Samoan islands, an area already devastated by earthquake and tsunami damage which killed more than 130 people. |  Tsunamis sparked by an early morning earthquake have devastated the Pacific nations of Samoa and American Samoa killing more than at least 113 people, including two Australians, and leaving at least 1,000 displaced. |
Outcry as Samoa motorists prepare to switch driving sides Reuters 09/07/2009 | Commonwealth suspends Fiji over democracy AP 09/02/2009 |
 Samoa is about to become the first nation in nearly 40 years to switch the side of the road that traffic drives on, and the reasons are primarily economic. |  SUVA, Fiji — Fiji's military-led government said Wednesday its suspension from the 53-nation Commonwealth is the price it must pay for its reform of the country's political system, and insisted that it will not hold elections before 2014. |
Papua New Guinea Plane Crash Passengers Found Dead Sky News 08/11/2009 | |
 PORT MORESBY — Recovery workers on Thursday retrieved the first three bodies after a plane carrying foreign tourists crashed into a Papua New Guinea mountain, killing all 13 on board. |  All 13 people on a plane that crashed in Papua New Guinea have been found dead. On board were nine Australians, including a father and a daughter, one Japanese and three Papua New Guineans. |
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