Pushkaram Stampede: Death toll rises to 27

Twenty-nine pilgrims, 23 of them women, were crushed to death in a stampede on the first day of Godavari Maha Pushkaralu, considered the 'Mahakumbh of south', on Tuesday. Around 50 people were hospitalized;...

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Nepal closes a National Park to give mating Red Pandas some privacy, implications for body recovery efforts

Langtang National Park, Nepal’s first Himalayan national park and the one nearest to capital Kathmandu, has been declared a restricted zone by local authorities to allow red pandas to mate. The...

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Missing and murdered: searching for the lost in Mexico

The woman’s body appeared in the middle of March. She had been left next to a sewage canal in Mexicali, a Mexican city that borders the dry and dusty Imperial Valley in California. There was a bag...

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