Rescue and relief efforts are under way in northwestern Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh after Cyclone Mocha crashed ashore, with one humanitarian group working in the affected area saying hundreds had been killed and some Rohingya camps…
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A fire ripped through a four-storey hostel in New Zealand's capital in the early hours of Tuesday (16), killing at least six people as others fled for their lives, with some plucked from the roof
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Fifteen children drowned and 25 others were missing after their overloaded boat capsized on a river in northwest Nigeria, a local official said Wednesday (10)
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A gas leak killed 11 people in India, an official said Sunday (30), in the latest deadly industrial accident in the vast developing economy of 1.4 billion people
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At least 14 people were killed Thursday (30) when a well cover collapsed inside a packed temple in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, leading several to fall into the well, local officials said
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At least 31 people died and 230 were rescued after a fire engulfed a ferry in the southern Philippines, authorities said Thursday (30)
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A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday (27), killing at least one person and trapping others in collapsed buildings three weeks after a devastating quake struck the same region, leaving more than 50,000 people dead in…
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At least 59 migrants, including a baby just a few months old, died after their overloaded boat sank early on Sunday (26) in stormy seas off Italy's southern Calabria region, officials said
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At least two people were killed and more than 50 are missing, state media reported, after an apparent collapse at a coal mine in northern China's Inner Mongolia region on Wednesday (22)
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Freezing temperatures deepened the misery Thursday (9) for survivors of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria that killed more than 16,000 people, as rescuers raced to save countless people still trapped under rubble
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