WHO calls on China to lower 680-a-day road accident death toll
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged China to cut its estimated 680 daily road deaths, saying that a better safety plan was critical to ending the carnage on the world's most dangerous roads.
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It is assumed that the death toll would further increase. The collision occurred at the Hoshiyarpur district in Jalandhar at the Pathankot railway section where an express and local train collided together near the Mansar village.
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The increasing number of young people being killed on the roads is to be discussed by police and motoring groups.
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Forty Britons have died in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and 159 others were missing and "highly likely" to have died, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said, suggesting the death toll could approach 200.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao asks Islamabad to secure engineers' safety after the death of a Chinese hostage.
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Child mortality among China's rural poor and its millions of migrants remains high despite overall improvements, state media quoted the World Health Organisation as saying Friday.
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The death toll from a devastating coal mine disaster in China rose to 62 Friday as hopes of finding any survivors amongst a further 86 missing workers faded.
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China's special envoy on Darfur has urged the West to do more to promote a peaceful settlement to the conflict in the African region, state media reported Wednesday.
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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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Two Britons were among three people killed when a coach carrying Hajj pilgrims crashed in Saudi Arabia, said the Foreign Office.A further 34 people were injured, with 28 still in hospital - some in a serious ...Comment
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Investigators in China are searching for clues as to the cause of a plane crash that killed 54 people, but after more than 24 hours of efforts they have still not located the crucial black box.
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More than 63,162 people were killed in 12 countries in southern Asia and Africa from Sunday's massive earthquake and tsunami waves, according to official figures. A breakdown of the toll so far:
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The death toll from flooding and landslides in south-western China rose to 177 yesterday as the authorities warned of fresh storms.
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Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in southern China have killed at least 66 people, left 12 others missing and forced nearly 600,000 from their homes, state media reported Sunday.
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Rescue teams tried to reach 86 trapped  miners on Friday after one of China's worst mine disasters in  years killed at least 62 people, prompting calls for action by  the president, state media said.
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About 400,000 toddlers die every year in China mainly because of a lack of medical care, a member of a government advisory group said on Wednesday, urging greater investment in the health system.
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The death toll in the Central China coal mine accident rose to 66 on Friday, a figure set to rise as hopes of rescuing the 82 missing miners fades.