10 children dead in school bus accident in India

At least 10 children died in an accident Tuesday morning in Rajasthan and another 20 are in hospital after their school bus collided with a truck on a national highway in the district of Ganganagar...

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17 killed in Pakistan bus accident

At least 17 people have been burned to death in northwest Pakistan when a gas cylinder exploded on a bus after it collided with a truck. The bus was carrying passengers to the city of Bannu when...

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Italian bus crash: mass funeral for the 39 victims of the Italian bus disaster

Thousands of mourners packed into a sports hall today for a mass funeral to commemorate the 39 victims who died in the Italian coach disaster. Prime Minister Enrico Letta joined an estimated 4,000...

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8 Killed, 5 Missing in Floods in East Indonesia

Rescuers have found eight dead bodies and are searching for five others reported missing as floods hit Ambon, capital of Maluku Province in eastern Indonesia, local official said on Tuesday. The...

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Four refugees found dead after sea search in Greece

The bodies of four drowned refugees were found last Friday on a beach on the holiday island of Kos, Greece, after a boat carrying immigrants illegally into the country from nearby Turkey was reported...

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Iran death boat victims slipped past Jakarta visa crackdown

Iranian asylum-seekers involved in last week's West Java boat tragedy spent only one night in Jakarta, flying in on visas-on-arrival before being transported to the fatal boat, investigators say. An...

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No bodies found, but more victims identified in Lac-Mégantic

After taking two days off, workers in Lac-Mégantic’s Red Zone continued to search on Monday for the remains of the last five victims believed to be buried in the rubble. Unfortunately, said Sûreté...

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Bangladesh factory collapse victims and workers get help to cope with trauma

When she went to work, Amrita said a grim goodbye to her three children and asked relatives to take care of them if she didn’t come back. She felt as though she were going to her death. That was...

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Japan: Volunteer divers continue search for victims of 3/11 tsunami disaster

Heading out to sea, Junichi Sato takes medicine to control his motion sickness, a problem he never had until the 2011 tsunami killed his mother and young daughter and son. “I used to have resistance...

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Death in "Dev Bhoomi": disaster in Hinduism’s holiest place

Prakash Kabra recites his elder brother’s mobile number and I carefully tap it into my phone – already knowing the response, but still with a naïve sense of hope. "The number you are calling is either...

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