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MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) Myanmar's president declared a state of emergency Friday in a central city shaken by sectarian bloodshed that has killed at least 20 people, as thousands of minority Muslims fled and overwhelmed riot police crisscrossed the still-burning town seizing machetes and hammers from enraged Buddhist mobs.
NPR: Sectarian Violence Kills At Least 20 In Myanmar
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Kosovo's second city of Pec was reduced to a burning ghost town as its 80, 000 inhabitants fled.
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"Driving away, you could see the town burning up, " she told the Los Angeles Times.
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Around four months after the campaign was born, masked men dressed as monks rampaged through the central town of Meikhtila with swords, burning mosques and Muslim shops.
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The concept of heating underground coal to a combustion point may lead one to recall Centralia, PA, an abandoned town in Pennsylvania sitting on a coal seam which has been burning for 50 years, but the UCG controlled process makes that outcome highly unlikely.
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Cicero was a political outsider from a small town near Rome, but he was a brilliant man and gifted speaker, with a burning desire to gain the highest office in the ancient republic.
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