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Death toll rises to 65 in attack on Pakistanis (AP)

September 4th, 2010

** ALTERNATIVE CROP OF QUT111** People who were injured by an explosion lie down on road during a Shiite procession in Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Police say a blast at a Shiite procession has killed a score of people in southwestern Pakistan in the third deadly attack this week on the country's religious minorities.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt)AP - The death toll from a Pakistani Taliban suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose from 43 to 65 overnight as critically wounded people died in hospitals, police…

43 dead in string of attacks in Iraq (AP)

August 25th, 2010

An Iraqi policeman stands in the ruins of a collapsed building after a bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. A string of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces on Wednesday left several people dead and scores wounded, police and hospital officials said the day after the number of American soldiers in the country fell bellow 50,000.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A string of more than a dozen attacks targeted Iraq’s local government and police forces from one end of the country to the other on Wednesday, killing 43…

Death toll in China landslide rises to 337 (AP)

August 9th, 2010

Rescuers and residents walk on a road covered by rocks and mud near a collapsed building after a mudslide triggered by heavy rains in Zhouqu county, in northwest China's Gansu province, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Rescuers searched Monday for an estimated 1,300 people left missing after rubble-strewn floodwaters tore through a remote corner of northwestern China, just one of a series of flood disasters across Asia that have plunged millions into misery. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Chinese state media says the death toll from a massive landslide triggered by floods in the country’s northwest has risen to 337.


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Officials: Floods kill at least 430 in Pakistan (AP)

July 30th, 2010

A Pakistani woman sits at the bank of the swollen Nelum river flooded by monsoon rains in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir on Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Aftab AhmedAP - The death toll from three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 430 on Friday, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.


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Death toll at 34 in Colombia mine blast (AP)

June 21st, 2010

AP - Colombian rescuers have retrieved the bodies of 34 miners killed in last week’s coal mine explosion.

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Tropical storm kills 83 in Central America (AP)

May 30th, 2010

A man tries to use a public phone in Palin, south of Guatemala CIty after an avalanche triggered by tropical storm Agatha hit the village on Sunday, May 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)AP - The death toll in Central America from landslides and flooding triggered by the year’s first tropical storm surged to 83 on Sunday, as authorities struggled to clear roads…

Rio flood death toll hits 205, expected to rise (AP)

April 9th, 2010

A woman reacts after a landslide destroyed her house in Niteroi on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Friday, April 9, 2010. Crews pulled at least 17 bodies from the debris at the site. More rain fell early Friday in Rio, threatening more landslides. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - The death toll from landslides and floods in and around Rio de Janeiro this week reached 205 on Friday and was expected to rise as searchers continued looking…

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