2 UP cops suspended for disputes over U'khand victim's bodies

The Uttar Pradesh government today suspended two policemen in Muzaffarnagar and Bijnor districts and issued warning to others for getting into border disputes over bodies of Uttarakhand flood victims...

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Uganda: To avoid Mulago drama, bring IDs

President Museveni's Shs 5m condolence token to each of the families that lost loved ones in the inferno caused by fuel spillage from a tanker at Namungoona last weekend has courted controversy. Besides...

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Death toll climbs up to 40 as seven still missing in Indonesia's Aceh quake

Death toll of Tuesday's major earthquake in central Indonesia's Aceh province has increased to 40 as rescuers and police continue searching the seven people declared missing, a senior police said...

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Piper Alpha survivors recall disaster 25 years on

The Piper Alpha disaster which killed 167 workers on 6 July 1988 off the coast of Aberdeen is the world's deadliest ever oil rig accident. Even 25 years on, Charles Haffey's most powerful memory...

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Uttarakhand: Extricating bodies big challenge

Eighteen days after flashfloods and landslides struck Uttarakhand, authorities on Thursday cremated 30 bodies in Gaurikund. Mass cremation in the base camp started on Wednesday and by Thursday evening...

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Final text from missing American schooner carrying 7 said sails shredded

An American schooner missing in the South Pacific with seven people aboard sent an undelivered text message a month ago saying its sails were shredded and it was travelling at four knots. Briton...

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Uganda: Fire - seven bodies await DNA results

Last weekend's deadly inferno has so far claimed 40 lives and many people are mourning, but some families are still laying claim to the last seven unidentified bodies. Government confirmed this week...

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Indonesian quake toll grows to 35

Rescuers on Friday continued to search for missing people in a mountainous village devastated by a powerful earthquake that struck Indonesia’s westernmost province earlier this week. So far, 35 are...

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Uttarakhand missing persons' database likely to be ready by weekend

After seeing the massive rescue operation to near completion, the Uttarakhand government, with the aid of Central authorities, is getting ready to release the final list of "missing" persons who may...

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Relatives search for Bangladesh missing

The deadliest disaster in the history of the garment industry killed 1,129 people, but hundreds more are still missing almost three months after the factory building in Bangladesh collapsed. Relatives...

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Zimbabwe: 15 Vapositori perish in crash

Fifteen church members of the Johanne Masowe weChishanu branch in South Africa died on the spot after their car collided head-on with a bus along the R510 highway in Rusternburg in that country on...

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