Death toll rises to 40,000
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The death toll from the epic tsunami that rocked 11 countries rose to 40,000 people Tuesday, and food and supplies poured into the region, part of what the UN said
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THE death toll in a Chinese coal mine blast rose to 64 yesterday, with 84 people still missing. The explosion, on Wednesday in Henan province, was the deadliest this year in the country&#39;s mines.
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HYDERABAD: The death toll in the tsunami disaster in Andhra Pradesh rose to 104 and 30 people were still missing even as search operations continued today to trace the missing fishermen and relief measures were on in full swing in the nine coastal
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The death toll from heavy floods in Dazhou City of southwest China&#39;s Sichuan Province has risen to 34 with 38 missing, an official of the local flood control office announced here Monday.
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The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Indian Ocean nations rose to nearly 220,000 with another 50,000 deaths being reported by Indonesia's health ministry.
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Officials in Indonesia say the number of people killed there is now nearly 80,000 and the death toll from around the area is set to rise still higher.
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The death toll from last month's Indian Ocean tsunami disaster rose towards a quarter of a million while floods hampered relief efforts in worst-hit Indonesia's Aceh province.
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Fires pushed by gale-force winds tore through more parched forests, swallowed villages, and scorched the edges of Athens yesterday, with ashes raining onto the Acropolis. The death toll rose to at least 49 as the government declared a nationwide state of emergency.
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At least 42 people, including many elderly, children and tourists, were killed in Malaysia and many more were missing from the worst-hit area on the holiday resort island of Penang, rescue officials said.
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The number of dead as a result of the 9.0 earthquake that occurred off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, 40 kilometers under the Indian Ocean, has reached 40,000.
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War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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Death toll rises to 64 as opposition and media ridicule lack of disaster planning.
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The death toll from heavy floods in Dazhou City of southwest China&#39;s Sichuan Province has risen to 34 with 38 missing, an official of the local flood control office announced Monday.
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Tens of thousands more bodies have been found in the sea and wreckage of coastal towns around the Indian Ocean, pushing the death toll from Sunday&#39;s tsunami close to 60,000.
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The death toll from a fire that ripped through a warehouse under construction outside of Seoul has risen to 40, officials said on Tuesday, with most of the victims overcome by toxic fumes.
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Almost 40 people are killed after a Janjaweed raid in eastern Chad in the past few days, say officials.
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The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to 691 Tuesday, with 600 of them in Gonaives, and officials said they expected to find more dead and estimated tens of thousands of people were homeless.