Flooding in Afghanistan kills 50 people and leaves thousands homeless

Flooding in a remote part of northern Afghanistan has killed more than 50 people and forced thousands to flee their homes, officials have said. It was the latest in a string of deadly flash floods,...

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Death toll in the Sewol ferry tragedy has now climbed to 290

Two more bodies have been found this week; 14 people are still missing, presumed dead. A search team recovered another body from the submerged Sewol ferry in South Korea on Friday, raising the death...

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Marshall Islands: World War II skeletons washed from graves by rising seas

Skeletons of World War II soldiers are being washed from their graves by the rising Pacific Ocean as global warming leads to inundation of islands that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the conflict....

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Yemen: 60 African migrants drown as boat capsizes off coast

Sixty migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia have drowned in the worst disaster to occur off the coast of Yemen this year, the United Nations has said. Two Yemeni crew members also died when the boat...

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Two more bodies pulled from collapsed Samarinda shophouse

Police searching for survivors under a collapsed shophouse construction have pulled two more bodies from the rubble, bringing the death toll to 11 and leaving one person unaccounted for, police said. ...

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