Peruvian President calls for orderly distribution of relief supplies
President Alan García has called for the orderly distribution of emergency supplies as desperate victims of a magnitude-8 earthquake on Peru's southern coast looted markets and blocked arriving aid trucks.
Indian Ocean nation votes in historic referendum
Thousands of Maldivians, many of them fed up with the nearly three-decade rule of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, voted on Friday at schools and makeshift gazebos in the crowded capital and on remote atolls in a poll seen as a vote of confidence in their president.
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