New bus collision kills 16 in Bolivia

Two buses collided head-on along a highway in Bolivia’s eastern state of Santa Cruz early on Thursday, killing 16 passengers and injuring more than 40 others just a day after another road accident...

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Seven Killed In Landslide In Ecuador

At least seven people were killed and 17 others injured in a landslide in Ecuador's mining zone of Bella Rica in the southern province of Azuay. Patricio Lopez, mayor of Ponce Enriquez, told reporters...

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8 dead, 1 injured in E China auto collision

Eight people were killed and another one was injured in a collision involving four automobiles Friday morning in east China's Anhui Province, local police said. Around 9:10 a.m., four vehicles piled...

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Mozambique floods kill 36

Flooding in Mozambique has killed at least 36 people and displaced nearly 70,000, the United Nations said Friday, as residents braced for a fresh storm surge. "A total of 26 persons have died in...

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Who Made That Military Dog Tag?

During the Civil War, more than a quarter of dead soldiers remained unidentified. “I saw two human skull-bones, one pelvis and two jaw bones lying on a stump with no trace of a grave,” a newspaper correspondent...

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Map found, may lead to graves of Indian workers killed in 1902

A Suriname-born researcher in The Netherlands has found a map amongst Dutch military archives that could aid archeologists in Suriname in locating forgotten mass graves of Indian indentured workers...

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Earthquake in China Linked to Idea of Divine Retribution

An earthquake that struck close to the site of a known concentration camp in China was seen by netizens as having possible divine portent—given the ancient Chinese belief that misdeeds by rulers...

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Six killed in Mumbai slum fire

Six persons were killed and eight injured in a fire that gutted several hutments here today. The fire broke out in Mahim's Nayanagar slum early today, fire brigade sources said, adding that the...

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Zengeza Blast: Mystery Soldier and Cop Identified

Investigations into the Chitungwiza deadly mystery explosion which killed 5 people on Monday publicly suspected to have been caused by super human powers, have escalated into an advanced stage amid...

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Body storage plan for Mazaruni boat collision victims flops

Despite assurances that bodies retrieved from Tuesday’s deadly boat collision on the Mazaruni River would have been properly stored and transported, that was not the case on Thursday when two more...

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Five bodies now recovered from Mazaruni tragedy

Three more bodies were found on Thursday after another gruelling day of search and recovery following the boat accident which occurred at Crab Falls, Mazaruni, on Tuesday. Jewan Seeram, 52, from...

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