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SF Gate
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Massive flooding across a broad stretch of southern China killed almost 60 people and forced 1.3 million others from their homes, state media reported Monday.
People were forced to flee their homes across nine provinces, including Sichuan, still reelin..
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MSNBC
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A powerful earthquake buried 900 students in central China on Monday and killed at least 107 people, as several schools and a water tower collapsed in the tremor, state media reported.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck central China, but sent thousan..
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CNN
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Japan's top whaling ship returned to port Tuesday, leading a fleet that killed just 55 percent of its season target of 1,000 whales amid violent protests in the Antarctic. The Nisshin Maru made a special stop in Tokyo so the coast guard could inspect it f..
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CNN
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Nepalese police shot and killed a demonstrator Wednesday as he protested the killing of a political candidate a day earlier, police said. The demonstrator's death is the latest of several violent episodes in Nepal in advance of elections scheduled for Thu..
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CNN
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Mohamed Al Fayed still believes that British secret agents might have been involved in the death of his son and Princess Diana, his spokeswoman said Tuesday. A coroner's jury decided on Monday that Diana and Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed due to reckle..
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BBC News
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At least 12 people have been killed in land clashes in west Kenya, police say.
Ten houses were razed to the ground and some people burnt to death, while others were shot dead, police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told the BBC.
It is unclear if the overnig..
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CNN
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Survivors of a storm that killed more than 3,000 people in the impoverished nation of Bangladesh grieved and buried their loved ones Monday as they waited for aid to arrive. The number of dead killed from Cyclone Sidr -- now at 3,114 -- is expected to ris..
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CNN
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At least 500 people have been killed and thousands made homeless after a powerful tropical cyclone slammed into the southern coastal region of Bangladesh late Thursday, local government officials said Friday. Local government officials across the region t..
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FOX News
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An explosion in a coal mine in Russia's Arctic killed seven people and left three missing, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Tuesday.
The blast hit the Komsomolskaya mine in Vorkuta, about 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow, on Monday evening. There..
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FOX News
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Defying royal wishes, a British television channel said Tuesday it will show photographs taken immediately after the car crash that killed Princess Diana nearly 10 years ago.
Diana's sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, had protested that showing the..
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CNN
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A teenage boy holding a severed head appeared at a police station in northern Japan on Tuesday, saying he killed his mother, an official said.
The 17-year-old boy turned up at the police station in Aizu Wakamatsu city in Fukushima prefecture (state) Tu..
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News.com.au
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SIXTY-five people were killed and seven injured in the west African state of Guinea after the truck in which they were travelling toppled into a lake.
Officials said the accident yesterday near the town of Gueckedou, about 700km southeast of the capita..
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CNN
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A night watchman ignored two fire alarms at a Russian old people's home where a blaze killed at least 62 people, emergency officials said.
The man only took action when he saw flames at the building, in the Kuban region of southern Russia, but staff fa..
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CNN
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At least 74 miners are dead, a number that could rise, and at least 43 are missing after a methane gas explosion Monday at a coal mine in southwestern Siberia, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
The ministry said 83 miners have been res..
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BBC News
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Four people have been killed and 30 injured after extremely strong gusts of wind toppled 11 carriages of a train in north-west China, official media said.
The storm hit soon after the train left Turpan station, in China's Xinjiang region, Xinhua news a..
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Times Online
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For 62 years, Akira Makino spoke not a word of what he’d done, but to those who knew him well it must have been obvious that he was a man with a tortured conscience. Why else would he have returned so often to the obscure, mosquito-blown town in the sou..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Serbia was guilty of failing to prevent the genocide of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, the UN's highest court ruled today. But the international court of justice cleared Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide and complicity in..
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Yahoo News
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An animal lover was mauled to death by cheetahs after entering their cage at a zoo in northern Belgium, authorities and zoo officials said Monday. Karen Aerts, 37, of Antwerp, was found dead in the cage, Olmense Zoo spokesman Jan Libot said. Police sai..
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Telegraph
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Miguel Grima was not a well-liked man. As mayor of a tiny hamlet in the foothills of the Pyrenees in northern Spain he had ruffled a few feathers...
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USA Today
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A stampede at a pop concert in central Indonesia killed 10 people and injured scores of others, most of them teenagers, police said Wednesday...
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