| January 9, 2005 | - The U.S. killed as many as fourteen people in one family when it bombed the wrong house in northern Iraq,
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The Los Angeles Times
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| December 19, 2003 | -
Homelessness and hunger were on the rise in American cities.
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New York Times
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| April 1, 2003 | -
Belgium's parliament was taking steps to dismiss a war-crimes claim against President George Bush the elder which was filed last month by seven Iraqi families whose relatives were killed in the 1991 American bombing of a civilian bomb shelter.
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| January 14, 2003 | -
A United Nations report entitled “Likely Humanitarian Scenarios” estimated that an American invasion of Iraq will result in some 500,000 casualties and about 900,000 refugees, who will require food and shelter; up to 3 million Iraqis could require “therapeutic feeding.” The U.S. military admitted that it has spammed thousands of Iraqis with email messages urging them to defy Saddam Hussein.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
Scientists announced that an enormous asteroid may hit earth on February 1, 2019, potentially destroying a continent and reducing the planet to Dark Age conditions; despite the collision's very low odds, dozens of people in England were moved to pay a Welsh businessman $1,500 each for shelter in subterranean caves.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
India closed 15 shelters in Erwadi, where crazy people were kept near a Muslim shrine, presumably hoping for some kind of miracle; 27 were killed recently in a fire because they were chained to poles.
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