Helicopter on quake relief mission crashes in Nepal

A small helicopter on an earthquake relief mission crashed in high mountains in northeast Nepal on Tuesday, killing at least four people, the army said. The aircraft, operated by private company...

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Malaysian police get permission to exhume remains via Thai territory

Malaysian police have received permission from the Thai authorities to use a route in Thailand to begin exhuming bodies from graves at a transit camp in the Mata Ayer Forest Reserve, Lubuk Sireh. ...

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57 bodies identified as Onitsha tanker fire death toll rises to 70

More than 60 people have died in south-eastern Nigeria after a fuel tanker crashed into a busy bus station and caught fire, officials say. Eyewitnesses say the driver lost control of the tanker...

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Sinkings in South Korea and China present divers different tests

As divers scramble to save hundreds trapped in a capsized cruise ship in China's Yangtze River, the scene in some ways evokes Northeast Asia's last major maritime disaster: the ferry sinking last year...

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Hundreds missing, many elderly tourists, after ship capsizes on China's Yangtze

Rescuers fought bad weather on Tuesday as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a cruise boat was buffeted by a freak tornado and capsized on...

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