Baltics top world suicide table
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World Health Organisation figures show a suicide takes place somewhere in the world every 40 seconds.
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More than 1,000 journalists and their support staff have died in the past decade, with Iraq and Russia topping the list as the deadliest countries for the profession, according to a report released Tuesday.
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A view of the main bus stand that was destroyed by tidal waves at Galle, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004. Some 44,000 people are reported dead around southern Asia and as far away as Somalia on Africa&#39;s
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The Russian government says more servicemen died from suicide or in accidents than in the line of duty this year.
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Congo Dem. Rep. REUTERS, STOCKHOLM:Dec 31: Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds, who returned on Friday from tsunami-devastated Thailand, said she believed the total death toll from the disaster in the ...
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Estonia and Finland are both struggling to tackle heavy alcohol consumption, Laura Sheeter reports.
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Male U.S. veterans are twice as likely to die by suicide than people with no military service, and are more likely to kill themselves with a gun than others who commit suicide, researchers said on Monday.
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A groundbreaking study finds that suicide rates have soared in one of the most deprived parts of Scotland.
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The number of Japanese who killed  themselves edged down last year but stayed above 30,000 as it  has for nearly a decade, with suicides among the elderly rising  to account for more than a third of the total, police said on  Thursday.
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Japan set a target on Friday for cutting its suicide rate, one of the highest among industrial nations, by more than 20 percent over the next decade.
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Suicides among US soldiers are heading for a record high, army data released on Thursday shows.
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The people of eastern Finland are famous for being ill. They have the dubious distinction of having one of the highest rates of heart disease in the world.
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The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans has reached its highest point in at least 25 years, a new government report said Thursday.
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Thousands of Russian army conscripts are each year inducted into a life of starvation, beatings and torture which drives hundreds to suicide, a Human Rights Watch report concluded yesterday.
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The death toll from epic tsunamis that rocked 11 countries rose to 44,000 people today after Sri Lanka and Indonesia significantly increased their confirmed deaths.
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The internet may be fuelling a rise in suicide pacts, a leading psychiatrist has warned.
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Estonia, Finland and Sweden mark the 10th anniversary of the Estonia ferry disaster, in which 852 people died.