The everyday tableau of Delhi’s nameless dead

The morning before the roll of the Republic Day tableau, a middle-aged man wrapped in a flimsy red rug was found dead on a pavement at Paharganj, a 10-minute drive from Rajpath, with no one and nothing...

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Brazil no safer a year after deadly club fire

Never again, officials vowed a year ago, would Brazil see a horror like the nightclub fire that killed 242 young men and women, all suffocated by toxic smoke that filled a windowless bunker of a building...

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Lac-Mégantic and L’Îsle-Verte: contrasts and similarities

Major disasters that have struck at the heart of two small Quebec communities in the space of about seven months have some striking similarities. There are also some equally glaring differences. Lac-Mégantic...

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Andaman ferry tragedy: one still missing, all bodies identified

One person was still missing after a tourist boat capsized in the Bay of Bengal off Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Sunday. All the bodies have been identified and sent back to...

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Canadian fire bodies search resumes

Crews have resumed searching for the remains of 22 people presumed killed in a fire at a Quebec retirement home after temporarily suspending their activities due to the frigid temperatures and swirling...

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