7 reported dead after bus falls from Rio de Janeiro viaduct

A passenger bus plunged from a 10-meter-high (30-foot) viaduct in central Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, killing at least seven people and closing a major thoroughfare. At least six people were injured...

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Tsunami survivor keeps searching for missing family

Kneeling among brown weeds and scattered debris, Miho Suzuki, 24, placed a bouquet of flowers on the remains of the home she shared with her parents and brother in the Ukedo district of Namie. Then...

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Total of 54 Tibet landslide bodies recovered

Chinese rescue crews have recovered a total of 54 bodies in the aftermath of a huge landslide in Tibet that buried more than 80 mine workers, state television reported on Tuesday. China Central Television...

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At least 13 youths killed in Myanmar mosque fire

A fire engulfed a mosque housing Muslim schoolchildren in Myanmar's largest city Tuesday, killing at least 13. Authorities, anxious over sectarian violence that has shaken the nation, quickly blamed...

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Mine rescue efforts hampered by weather

36 bodies now recovered, but teams moved to safety after further slide. Rescue workers searching for missing miners, buried by Friday's massive landslide near Lhasa, in the Tibet autonomous region,...

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Bosnia to bury hundreds more Srebrenica victims

The bodies will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the mass killings in 1995, at the Potocari Memorial in eastern Bosnia which commemorates those who died. Four hundred and sixty-one victims'...

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Migrants fear loved ones lost in refugee camp fire

Mount Gambier’s Karenni community is waiting anxiously for the results of DNA tests on the charred bodies of family members and friends who perished in a fire in a Thailand refugee camp. At least...

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Pirates 'kill fishermen' off Bangladesh

Pirates are thought to have drowned 16 fishermen in southern Bangladesh in order to steal their boat. Their hands and feet were bound before the victims were thrown into the Bay of Bengal to drown,...

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Dead militants haunting village

Security forces hunting down remnants of Sulu militants in Lahad Datu claim to have seen apparitions of dead gunmen around Kampung Tanduo, the scene of bloody clashes with the terrorists last month,...

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SAR Team Halts Search for Cililin Landslide Victims

A joint search and rescue team has decided to halt the search for three remaining missing victims of a landslide in Cililin, West Java. Spokesman of the National Disaster and Mitigation Agency (BNPB)...

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