Search completed, no survivors found after Peru bus plunge

No survivors have been found several days after a bus crash in an Andean region of Peru and authorities say that they have finished searching the area. 51 people were aboard an old cargo truck-turned-bus...

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Philippine quake death toll rises to 93 (update)

A powerful earthquake killed at least 93 people in the Philippines on Tuesday as it generated landslides that buried homes, triggered terrified stampedes and destroyed historic churches. Fifteen...

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Rescue suspended for victims of Colombia building collapse

Officials suspended their search Monday for workers missing in an apartment building collapse that claimed the lives of at least two people in the city of Medellin. Nine people were still believed...

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Death toll rises from migrant accidents near Lampedusa

Divers have found an additional 20 bodies from last week's shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa, raising the death toll to 359. Officials say rescuers found the additional bodies on Saturday...

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Myanmar (Burma): Bodies of 10 boat migrants found

Thai authorities said yesterday they had recovered the bodies of 10 migrant workers from Myanmar whose boat is believed to have sunk in a recent storm. Myanmar officials confirmed that the nine...

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Iraq's morgues overwhelmed by surge in terror attacks

During the past few months, Iraq's memory of the "morgue refrigerators" has returned -- after having somewhat diminished over the past two years but never having completely disappeared. Iraqis...

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At least 20 dead as strong earthquake rocks Philippines islands of Cebu and Bohol

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 has struck popular tourist islands in the Philippines killing at least 20 people, some of whom were hit whilst praying in a centuries-old church, officials...

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Mali boat sinking death toll rises to 43 (update)

Mahmoudou Ibrahim combed the waters frantically for his family after they and hundreds of other passengers were catapulted into the Niger River when their boat capsized. Amid the cries for help...

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150 bodies found in mass grave in northern Bosnia

More than 150 bodies have been recovered from a mass grave found in Tomasica near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than 20 years after the war which claimed the lives of more than 11,500...

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