As ITN went to press, the State Department had travel warnings on 27 destinations: Nepal, Pakistan, Eritrea, Somalia, Chad, Kenya, Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Iran, Georgia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Algeria, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Cote d’Ivoire, Haiti, Burundi, Syria, Central African Republic, Philippines and Nigeria.  

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A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck in southwest Pakistan on Oct. 29. Hundreds of people died in several villages and an estimated 12,000 people were left homeless as 1,500 homes and buildings collapsed. The epicenter was near the Valley of Ziarat, one of the main tourist spots in Baluchistan province.

Rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo overran a major army camp in late October, killing a number of government soldiers and civilians. They also took over the headquarters of Virunga National Park, sending more than 50 park rangers fleeing into the forests, home to about 200 of the world’s 700 remaining mountain gorillas.

The raid took place three weeks after another attack on the same camp, Rumangabo, in which about 1,500 troops were killed. Due to the fighting, about...