10 Killed, 17 Injured as tropical cyclone hits Madagascar

Tropical cyclone Haruna and rains that lashed the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar killed 10 people and affected nearly 3 000 this week, the disaster management agency said Saturday. The cyclone...

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17 unclaimed bodies buried 5 months after Pakistan factory fire that killed 259

A Pakistani government official says authorities have buried 17 bodies that were never claimed after a factory fire killed 259 workers five months ago. Ghanwar Leghari says the bodies were buried...

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After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown

Perhaps one day Aiko and Kenji Nomura will laugh about the Birthday Cake Incident. It happened last autumn. Aiko, a care worker from the city of Koriyama in Japan's Fukushima prefecture, was celebrating...

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15 dead in Cianjur road accident

The police report that 15 people have died in a road accident in Cianjur, West Java, after a truck loaded with lubricants experienced a failure in braking system, hitting two small city buses, some...

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10 killed in home collapse caused by explosion in south Vietnam

A total of seven people were confirmed dead and three went missing after three houses in a small alley in south Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City's District 3 collapsed following two explosions at dawn...

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UN Urged To Probe Matale Grave

The United Nations (UN) has been called to assist in the investigations into the mass grave unearthed in Matale last year. In a written statement submitted to the UN Human Rights Council, ahead...

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Bus accident death toll reaches 19

Death toll from the Friday’s bus accident rose to 19 as four bodies were recovered on Saturday from the flooded nullah where the vehicle taking people to a wedding party had fallen, rescuers said....

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No bodies found in capsized NS fishing boat

A local dive team did not find any bodies during a search of the capsized Miss Ally off the coast of Nova Scotia, RCMP announced Saturday evening. Police said the captain of a private fishing boat,...

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Bus plunges into canal, at least 13 dead

At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed and another 12 injured when a passenger bus plunged into a canal in Badhu Samarbagh village on Friday afternoon. Thirteen bodies have...

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Eleven people die in accident on Winneba-Accra road

Eleven people died on the spot and seven others sustained injuries when a 207 Benz Bus on which they were traveling for a funeral collided with a heavy duty tipper truck at Gomoa Mampong, near Okyere,...

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