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WORLD / NEWS Tue May 20, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- The death toll from last week's devastating earthquake in south-west China has risen to 40,075, senior government officials have said. Tens of thousands more are still missing, and hopes are fading of finding many people still alive. Foreign medical.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Mar 31, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- The death toll from the collapse of a police headquarters building in Angola's capital over the weekend has risen to 24, officials said Monday. Rescue crews pulled nine bodies from the debris of the six-story building that served as headquarters for polic.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Dec 7, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

MSNBC -- The death toll in a massive gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China rose to 105 Friday, making it the nation's second deadliest mining disaster this year, state media reported. Rescuers from among 15 crews sent to the mine in Shanxi province's H.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- Rescuers searched intensely through the night into morning Friday, combing rubble for any survivors after a powerful earthquake devastated cities and sent a church's soaring ceiling tumbling down on hundreds of worshippers in southern Peru. Officials s.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Apr 15, 2007 @ 3:13am neoform

CNN -- The death toll in flash floods which swept scores of Thai New Year holidaymakers over three waterfalls in the southern province of Trang rose to 35 on Sunday, disaster officials said. Another 30 people are thought to be missing and rescue teams began a.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri May 23, 2008 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- The death toll from the massive earthquake in south-west China rose again, as an official said more than five million buildings had collapsed. The vice-governor of Sichuan province said 55,239 people were now known to have died in the 12 May quake... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 5, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- The death toll in Burma has reached nearly 4,000 people following a cyclone that hit the country on Saturday, state media say. It says 3,969 people have been killed and almost 3,000 more are missing. Earlier on Monday, state media said the death toll s.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 5, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- The death toll from a devastating cyclone has risen to almost 4,000, a Myanmar state radio station said Monday. The radio station broadcasting from the country's capital Naypyitaw said that almost 3,000 more people are unaccounted for in a single town.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- At least 27 people have died and about a dozen are reported missing after a fire at a warehouse in South Korea. Hundreds of firefighters have been drafted in to battle the blaze in Icheon, 80km (50 miles) south of the capital, Seoul. Thick, toxic sm.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Nov 20, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Five days after Cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh, an overwhelming stench filled the air Tuesday as rotting bodies and animal carcasses floated in pools of stagnant water around the coastal city of Patharghata. Villagers complained about lack of government h.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Nov 19, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Survivors of a powerful cyclone that devastated Bangladesh and killed more than 2,400 people grieved and buried their loved ones Monday as they waited for aid to arrive. In Galachipa, a fishing village along the coast in Patuakhali district, Dhalan Mri.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- Authorities rushed food, drinking water and medicine to India's flood-hit areas on Friday to ward off epidemics, as thousands of people returned to their damaged homes and the death toll in South Asia reached at least 575 people. Torrential rains have.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

USA Today -- Floodwaters receded in parts of monsoon-soaked South Asia on Monday but the death toll rose to 347, officials said. Millions remain displaced and homeless, and authorities fear waterborne disease could spread. Thirteen bodies surfaced in eastern Bihar.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 9:13am neoform

CNN -- Torrential rains overnight compounded the misery of 2 million marooned Indian villagers, killing another 11 people and raising the death toll from house collapses and floods in South Asia to 240, officials said Sunday. Helicopters have dropped food to hun.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 5:50am neoform

BBC News -- At least five people have been killed by heavy storms that are continuing to lash eastern Australia, officials say. Gale-force winds and rising flood waters have forced the evacuation of hundreds of people in New South Wales. More than 200,000 homes.. Read More