Disaster relief efforts fail to reach remote Sichuan villages

As relief materials pile up in major rescue centres in the quake-hit areas in Sichuan province, villagers from rural communities are complaining they have been forgotten by the government. “It’s been...

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6 dead, 5 missing in Guizhou landslide

Six people died, two were injured and another five have been reported missing following a landslide that occurred Monday in southwest China's Guizhou Province. The landslide occurred at 10:42 p.m.,...

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Lighter of pyres

No DVI but an encouraging insight into burial customs (note blogger): There is nothing extraordinary about the way she looks. Yet Shanti Behera, 52, a resident of Sambalpur, is unique. For the last...

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Exhumed remains of WWII Soviet soldiers reburied at Poland cemetery

The remains of 431 Soviet army soldiers killed during a World War II battle in Poland were reburied over the weekend, Russian military officials said. Vyacheslav Polovinkin, the head of the Russian...

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One more body pulled out of collapsed pit at Kyekyewere

One more body has been pulled out of the collapsed mining pit at Kyekyewere in the Central region, bringing the number of bodies collected out of the pit to 18. The taskforce which carried out the...

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Remembrance day for World War II victims in Serbia

Health Minister Slavica Djukic Dejanovic laid a wreath on behalf of the Serbian government at the Old Fairgrounds, the site of a WWII Nazi death camp. Wreath were also laid by representatives of...

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Teams hunt for survivors of powerful China quake

Luo Shiqiang sat near chunks of concrete, bricks and a ripped orange sofa and told how his grandfather was just returning from feeding chickens when their house collapsed and crushed him to death in...

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