Thousands attend a frugal mass cremation in Buleleng

Thousands of residents of the Sangsit Dauh Yeh customary village in Buleleng joined a mass cremation on Friday. The ritual, known as a sawa karsian, is held once every five years and gives poorer...

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More than 100 families yet to receive compensation

Several families which took away the bodies of their beloved ones from the factory without fulfilling legal requirements... The families of around 185 victims of a Baldia garments factory fire have...

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Sri Lanka deploys troops as prison riot kills 27

Heavily-armed troops guarded Sri Lanka's lone maximum security prison Saturday after helping to crush the country's worst jail riot in three decades, which left 27 people dead and 43 wounded. Army...

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25 killed in Myanmar tanker train explosion

YANGON, Myanmar - Twenty-five people were killed in northern Myanmar when a derailed tanker train burst into flames as they were trying to skim fuel from its overturned carriages, state television...

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Algerian military plane crashes in south France

Rescue workers have found four bodies amid the wreckage of an Algerian military cargo plane that was carrying six people from Paris to Algiers when it went down in flames in a mountainous region of...

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Turkish soldiers killed in helicopter crash

Seventeen Turkish soldiers were killed on Saturday when their helicopter crashed in southeastern Turkey due to bad weather conditions, the area's governor has said. The Sikorsky helicopter crashed...

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Nerul teen's death on tracks shocks family, hospital adds to trauma, hands wrong body

It was a double tragedy for the family of HSC student Rakesh Pote (18), who was one of the three youths killed near the railway tracks between Nerul and Juinagar on Thursday. Rakesh's body was wrongly...

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