Authorities in Ukraine Say 5 Die in a Helicopter Crash in the Central City of Kirovograd

Authorities in Ukraine say 5 die in a helicopter crash in the central city of Kirovograd. More to follow... Tuesday 25 December 2012 http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/authorities...

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Hauna victims named

127 people have died in road accidents since the 15th of this month, marking a 100% increase in deaths compared to the same period last year. In just ten days it has become one of the bloodiest...

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Kazakhstan military plane crash 'kills 27' near Shymkent

A military aircraft carrying 27 people including top members of the Kazakhstan border guard crashed Tuesday in the south of the country with all those on board believed dead, officials said. The...

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Indonesia to see more disasters as global warming continues

Indonesia has experienced more frequent cyclones due to persisting impacts of global warming in the past few years, and the phenomenon is predicted to continue next year. The frequency of cyclones...

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Zimbabwean gov't declares national disaster after deadly accident

The Zimbabwean government on Monday declared a national disaster after 18 people were killed and 46 others injured in a road accident the previous day. A truck carrying the victims veered off the...

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Kosovo Serb and Kosovo Albanian families insist their governments must do more to locate missing persons

ICMP is pleased to distribute the conclusions of a two-day conference hosted by ICMP in Skopje, Macedonia, on 20 and 21 November,, entitled “The Future of the Missing Persons Process from the Kosovo...

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The wave recedes slowly

It has been 654 days since the earthquake and the devastating tsunami it triggered, and the residents of Ishinomaki, one of the worst-hit cities in Miyagi prefecture, are still far from fully recovered....

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Doomsday fears linger among tsunami hit in Tamil Nadu

On Dec 26, 2004, a devastating tsunami triggered by an undersea quake off Sumatra in Indonesia hit Tamil Nadu's coast in Nagapattinam, Cuddalore, Chennai and Kanyakumari. The waves claimed around...

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At least four killed in firecracker warehouse blast in Tamil Nadu

At least four people were killed and nine suffered burn injuries in a blast at a firecracker warehouse in Tamil Nadu's Salem district Tuesday, police said. According to police, four bodies have so...

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Air Bagan plane crash kills at least two in Myanmar

A Myanmar plane carrying 65 passengers has crash-landed in the eastern state of Shan, killing two people and injuring dozens more. Officials have said that an engine fire may have forced the emergency...

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Eight dead, many left homeless in Philippine fires

Eight people were killed and thousands left homeless as two fires struck the Philippine capital on Christmas Day, with one of the blazes sparking a riot in a slum, officials said. Seven charred bodies,...

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Eight trapped in galamsey pit; two feared dead

Information gathered by XYZ News indicates that eight people have been trapped in a galamsey pit at Subrisufante a suburb of Tepa in the Ashanti region. The pit is reported to have collapsed on Sunday...

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An empty chair left at table helps families remember the missing

Some of the families of the country's 'missing' leave vacant chairs at the Christmas dinner table to mark their painful absence. Former garda Tosh Lavery, who chairs the Searching for the Missing...

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