‘Pablo’ makes Philippines most disaster-affected nation

Massive death and destruction caused by Typhoon "Pablo" (international name: Bopha) last December has made the Philippines as the most disaster-affected country in the world in 2012, a group said on...

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China: Natural disaster death toll up

Natural disasters across China claimed 141 lives and left another 83 people missing from January to March, the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) announced on Monday. Affecting a total of 52.76 million...

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The scars of genocide in Bosnia: ‘I didn’t know that human hearts and souls could be so evil’

It was a moment of Kafkaesque absurdity witnessed through the eyes of a seven-year-old. When the Bosnian town of Kozarac fell to the Serb forces in the first months of war, one by one Bosniak families...

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Nyaruguru District commemorates the 1994 genocide at the very place where the first Tutsi was murdered in the District

Over 500 residents (plus some neighbours and friends) of Ruramba village in Ruramba cell of Ruramba sector in Nyaruguru district, Southern Rwanda, on Sunday gathered in Ruramba village as the whole...

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French priest documents Shoah mass graves

As we come upon another Holocaust Remembrance Day, we often look to the camps – Auschwitz, Treblinka, Dachau – as the main centers of killing. But across Eastern Europe, more than a million Jews lost...

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5 Nepalis among Mumbai building collapse victims

Five Nepalis were among the victims of the Thursday building collapse in Mumbai of India, Indian media reported on Monday. According to the online version of The Times of India, the bodies of five...

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Perenco helicopter crashes in Peru, 13 dead

A helicopter chartered by French oil company Perenco has crashed in a remote northern part of Peru, killing all 13 Peruvians aboard, including one Perenco employee and representatives of three contractors,...

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