Russian army off-duty deaths rise
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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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Heavy consumption of alcohol from drinks as well as sources including medicinal remedies and cleaning agents may be a leading cause of death among working-age Russian men, researchers said on Thursday.
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The number of US military personnel killed in the 18 months since the invasion of Iraq has reached 1,000. Official figures show that 997 soldiers and three US Defence Department workers have died in the country since Saddam Hussein was ousted as leader.
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A new survey conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Columbia University School of Nursing and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad suggests that civilian deaths have risen dramatically in Iraq since the country
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The death toll from a suicide bombing outside a Moscow subway station rose to 10 as a 20-year-old man succumbed to his injuries, Russian news agencies reported.
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As of Tuesday, Aug. 17, 943 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 703 died as a result of hostile action and 240 died of non-hostile causes.
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The death toll from a suicide bombing outside a Moscow subway station rose to 10 Monday as a 20-year-old man succumbed to his injuries, Russian news agencies reported.
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BAGHDAD - Civilian deaths rose in August to their second-highest monthly level this year, according to figures compiled yesterday by the Associated Press. That raises questions about whether US strategy is working days before Congress receives landmark reports that will decide the course of the war.
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A respected Russian human rights group says 38 people have been killed in racist violence this year.
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NEW YORK  - Heavy drinking, including alcohol-based liquids not meant to be ingested, such as cologne or cleansers, caused nearly half of all deaths among working-age men living in Izhevsk, Russia, between 2003 and 2005, investigators report in The Lancet.
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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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Two crewmembers were killed when a fire broke out aboard a nuclear submarine in Russia's Northern Fleet, Russian Defense Ministry officials told CNN.
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Homicide figures released by the Scottish Government reveal a rise in deaths in the last year.
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"The Soviet-era practice of issuing appeasing bureaucratic reports instead of taking professional measures, and concealing the actual situation instead of honestly informing the public, can no longer be accepted in Ukraine"  The number of people sickened by smoke from a derailed train's chemical fire reached 152 on Thursday, and Ukraine's transport minister suggested that safety violations caused the accident. via HendersonvilleNews.com
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BESLAN, Russia - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer offered his resignation in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left at least 350 people dead.    Families were beginning the first of what will be a long and wrenching series of funerals - with the death toll still unsure and liable to rise...
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The number of casualties in a Polish military plane crash late on Wednesday rose to seven, the emergency services said.
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Operations suspended after rise in number of deaths, NHS management says