Pakistan floods kill 455, affect five million

ISLAMABAD: Monsoon floods in Pakistan have killed 455 people over the past five weeks and affected more than five million, according to the latest figures from the government's disaster relief agency. Pakistan...

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Poland summons Russian ambassador over plane crash victims' photos

Poland's Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to Warsaw on Wednesday to protest against the release of photographs showing mangled bodies from a 2010 plane crash that killed the Polish...

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A Sticky Tragedy: The Boston Molasses Disaster

On January 15th, 1919, in what was probably the most bizarre disaster in United States' history, a storage tank burst on Boston's waterfront releasing two million gallons of molasses in a 15 ft-high,...

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Latin American immigrant deaths soar from desert heat near Tucson

TUCSON — Dr. Bruce Parks unzips a white body bag on a steel gurney and gingerly lifts out a human skull and mandible, turning them over in his hands and examining the few teeth still in their sockets....

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Arizona county's grim lost and found

TUCSON — She probably never imagined things would go so wrong — that she'd end up here, on a scuffed metal gurney in a coroner's office far from home. Still, at age 22, she was old enough to know...

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Russian medic rejects blame for Smolensk air disaster identity mix-ups

The Russian doctor in charge of identifications of victims of the 2010 Smolensk air disaster has said that his team cannot be held responsible for mix-ups in the burials of victims in Poland. “I can...

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Conference Alert: Disaster Management Conference, Brisbane 2013

Australia & New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, Brisbane, Mercure hotel 29-31 May 2013 The Australian & New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference will...

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16 killed in bus-truck collision in Madhya Pradesh

Sixteen people were killed and 24 others injured on Tuesday when their bus collided head-on with a truck near Naugaon Navodaya Vidyalaya, about 20 kms from Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur city. The bus...

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IFRC: World Disasters Report 2012

According to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), 336 natural disasters and 234 technological disasters were reported worldwide in 2011.The number of natural disasters is...

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