At an Indian hostel, guests check in to die
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VARANASI, India  - After checking in at the Mukti Bhawan hostel, guests have two weeks to die or else they are gently asked to leave.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - As a clean up operation  finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village,  some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave  priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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Hepatitis A is taking an epidemic form in Dhaka University, as one student died of the disease and some 530 were tested positive for the virus in the past few weeks.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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MEDAN, Indonesia -- These are the lucky ones. Fate sent them to the crumbling wards of the Pirngadi General Hospital instead of to their graves. Here, where many victims with the most complicated injuries from the Dec. 26 tsunami were evacuated, survivors embark on daunting recoveries.
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It was midnight when gas began to leak from a Bhopal factory and killed thousands as they slept in central India 20 years ago. At midnight on Thursday, some
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An inquiry is launched after five Kenyan prisoners die in a cell the size of a single bed holding 12 men.
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Two guards die and another is hurt in a shooting incident inside the Indian embassy in Nepal, police say.
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Three children from a village hit by the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain have been admitted to hospital for medical checks after coming down with flu-like symptoms, a senior medical official said.
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Â· One patient a day dies waiting for a transplant Â· BMA backs idea, but other groups voice concerns
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Those caring for him at a Hindu monastery in Wales say he symbolizes the sanctity of all life and is an inspiration to temple-goers. Officials say he could have a contagious disease and should be put down.
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JANDI MERIAH, Indonesia -- Dowes Ginting, the most wanted man on Sumatra island, lay dying. He had abandoned the hospital where he had seen his relatives succumb one after another, and he had fled deep into the mountains, trying to outrun the black magic he feared had marked him next. For... When...
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With business travelers filling rooms again, some hotels appear to be having second thoughts about their emphasis on families.
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A leak from a gas canister after a party at a mountain hostel in eastern Spain kills 18 people.
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PONDICHERRY/MADRAS, India  - Thousands of  villagers huddled inside emergency shelters on India's  southeast coast, too scared to sleep in case a tsunami that  killed up to 3,300 people strikes again.
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NAGAPATTINAM, India: Relief workers raced Wednesday to bury decaying corpses amid fears of disease as the death toll in India from towering tidal waves that crashed into shorelines climbed above 9,000 and kept rising.
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The sole survivor in a cluster of Indonesian relatives infected with bird flu lies in an open-air hospital room, chickens pecking outside his door and visitors shuffling in and out without masks or protective gear.