Kenyan death toll near 250
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A mob torched a Kenyan church on Tuesday, killing about 30 villagers cowering inside, as the death toll from ethnic riots triggered by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election approached 250.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Dead bodies still  littered the streets of this provincial capital in northern  Indonesia on Tuesday as fears rose that the local death toll  from Sunday's earthquake and tsunami would exceed 25,000.
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NAKURU, Kenya  - Gunfire rang out in Nakuru on Saturday and armed gangs manned roadblocks in the western Kenyan town where at least 25 people have been killed in ethnic clashes since Thursday, witnesses said.
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NAKURU, Kenya  - Kenyan police battled on Saturday to halt clashes between tribal gangs wielding machetes, spears and bows and arrows that have killed at least 27 people in the western town of Nakuru since Thursday, witnesses said.
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Kenya sank deeper into trouble, with a curfew imposed in Kisumu, the countryâs third largest city, ethnic fighting intensifying and more than 100 people killed in election-related violence.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne was at 620, with some 500 of them in Gonaives, but officials said on Tuesday they expected to find more dead.    Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue...
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Riots and post-election violence in Kenya may have killed up to 1,000 people, the opposition said on Monday as it halted protests and President Mwai Kibaki invited his main rival to talks.
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A total of 22,493 people have been  confirmed killed in Sri Lanka by a tsunami and the number is  rising, the government said on Wednesday, forecasting the toll  could pass the 30,000 mark.
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At least 140,339 people are reported dead around southern Asia and as far away as Somalia on Africa's eastern coast, most killed by massive tsunamis that smashed coastlines on Dec. 26. The United Nations estimates the total number of dead will exceed 150,000.
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The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne was at 620, with some 500 of them in Gonaives, but officials said they expected to find more dead.
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More than 300 people have died during violence in Kenya since a disputed election on December 27, a state-funded local rights organization and an international group said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
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Â· Shootings in Nairobi slum bring death toll to 20 Â· Western countries express human rights concern
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The death toll from a fire at a building in the Siberian region of Tuva rose to 25, emergency officials said Thursday.
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NAIROBI, 3 December (IRIN) - Forty people were killed by landmines in Somalia during 2003 out of 75 reported casualties, an international humanitarian organisation, Geneva Call, reported on Thursday.
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Up to 1,000 people may have died in more than a week of riots and post-election violence in Kenya, opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Monday.
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Beijing - The death toll from a devastating coal mine blast in central China jumped to 122 on Tuesday, with 26 still missing six days after the explosion.
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A mob torched a Kenyan church on Tuesday, killing villagers cowering inside, as the death toll from ethnic riots triggered by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election soared to at least 180.