Poisonous liquor kills 24
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MULTAN, Sept 4: As many as 24 people were reported dead due to the consumption of poisonous liquor in and around Multan during the last 24 hours.
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Workers sifting through the blackened remains of a Russian hostel found six more bodies on Thursday, bringing the total number of people killed in the fire to at least 25.
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MOSCOW, Nov 17 (IPS) - Russian authorities are searching for new solutions  to tackle alcoholism after reports started to emerge last month  that thousands of people may have died from consumption of the  popular home-made alcohol Samogon. Low-grade industrially  manufactured alcohol may have gone into the drink, according to  some reports.
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A soil-borne bacterial infection called melioidosis has killed 24 people in Singapore this year, making it more deadly than SARS or bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday.
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DETROIT Police in Detroit have arrested a 25-year-old man in the slayings of four people. The victims were found inside a vehicle belonging to one of the victims, a 24-year-old woman.
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College students may down as many as 24 alcoholic drinks in a row when they party -- far more than any previous studies have indicated, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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The body of a man shot in the head and found on a London estate had been there for over 24 hours.
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A batch of poisonous bootleg liquor has killed 41 people in the Pakistani city of Karachi in one of the country's worst ever cases of alcohol poisoning, police said on Saturday.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - An attack on a tented dining hall  at a U.S. military base killed 24 people and wounded about 60  in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday in one of the deadliest  attacks on U.S. forces since they invaded Iraq last year.
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When it comes to causing death and  disability, alcoholic drinks are as bad as tobacco and high  blood pressure.
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Toxicology results show former major leaguer Jim Leyritz's blood-alcohol levels were nearly twice the legal limit the day he was involved in a fatal crash in December.
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Under-age drinking led to the deaths of more than 500 Australian teenagers in the decade leading up to 2002, according to a new university study.
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Excessive drinking took more than 75,000 lives in the United States in 2001, shortening the lives of each of those who died by an average of more than 30 years, a new government report says.
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New 24-hour drinking may have trebled alcohol-related admissions to inner city A&E departments, a study claims.
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A mortar attack on a tented dining hall at a US military base killed 24 people and wounded more than 60 in the Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday in one of the deadliest attacks on US forces since they invaded.
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At least seven people have died and thousands of others have fallen sick after drinking contaminated water in an industrial city in eastern Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.
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ONCE society frowned upon women who went out and got drunk. They were expected to sit in the saloon bar sipping a Martini or a half of lager and lime while the men got slaughtered.