3 dead, hundreds injured in China quake
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An earthquake in southwest China early Sunday left at least three people dead &#151; including a boy crushed by debris &#151; while injuring hundreds, destroying buildings, and forcing the evacuation of 120,000 residents, state media reported.
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Sirens were due to wail across more  than 100 Chinese cities on Saturday to commemorate the 73rd  anniversary of the start of Japan's invasion of China, state  media said.
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At least 100 people have been killed in Indonesia after a huge earthquake triggered a tidal wave that washed people out to sea and tore children from their parents&#39; arms in coastal cities.
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Thirty-three people were confirmed dead in a gas explosion, which also injured six, at a coal mine in Central China&#39;s Henan Province on Friday, according to local safety authorities.
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An earthquake has rocked a densely populated city in southwestern China, destroying more than 20,000 houses but killing no one, a local official said on Wednesday.
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Three firefighters were killed battling a spectacular blaze that engulfed a 12-storey shopping and office complex in western China, state media said Thursday.
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At least five people are dead and three are missing after China's east coast is hit by Typhoon Wipha.
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China's Sichuan province faced the  threat of epidemics on Wednesday after the worst flooding in a  century killed at least 161 people and injured thousands and  water levels at the huge Three Gorges Dam were due to peak.
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MADRAS, India  - Wailing relatives gathered around  dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India Sunday after a  tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed  up to 3,000 people.
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A strong earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale has killed a three-year-old girl, injured numerous people and caused widespread damage in Guadeloupe.
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More than 15,000 buildings collapsed or were seriously damaged by a series of massive earthquakes striking Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra, authorities said Saturday as the death toll rose to 17.
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The death toll from a fire that swept  through an iron mine complex in the northern Chinese province  of Hebei rose to 57, with three miners still missing, Xinhua  news agency said on Monday.
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A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's Aceh province kills at least three people, officials say.
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A magnitude-5.4 earthquake shook northwestern China early Tuesday, but there were no deaths or damage in the remote, thinly populated area, the government said.
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Nine people died and "hundreds" were injured in a powerful earthquake which struck Indonesia's Sumatra region on Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings in the Indian Ocean, an Indonesian government official said.
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BEIJING  - At least 143 people in southwestern China have been killed and dozens more are missing in massive floods and landslides triggered by torrential summer rains, officials and state television reported Tuesday.
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Rescuers were battling to reach thousands of people trapped by floods and mudslides in southwest China as the death toll from some of the worst storms in years rose to 105 with another 83 missing.