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Death toll from Moscow subway blasts rises to 39 (AP)

March 30th, 2010

A woman cries as Interior Ministry officers block her way in front of the exit of Lubyanka metro station in Moscow March 29, 2010. Two blasts ripped through packed Moscow metro stations on Monday during rush hour, killing at least 34 people and wounding 18, Russian officials said. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin  (RUSSIA - Tags: DISASTER CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST TRANSPORT)AP - Health officials say a woman has died in a Moscow clinic from wounds suffered in Monday’s subway blasts, raising the toll from the double suicide bombing to 39.


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Death toll in twin bombings in Iraq rises to 57 (AP)

March 27th, 2010

Supporters of former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, seen in the poster, take to the streets after the results released by Iraq's election commission show a secular challenger has beaten the country's prime minister in parliamentary elections, positioning him to be the first to try to form a government in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 26, 2010. The narrow margin — 91 seats for Ayad Allawi's coalition to 89 for al-Maliki's alliance — sets the stage for months of political wrangling as the veterans of Iraq's young democracy attempt to win support for a majority coalition.  (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Iraqi police say the casualty toll in twin bombings near a restaurant north of Baghdad has risen to 57 killed and 73 wounded.


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Documents of Auschwitz death camp doctors found (AP)

March 22nd, 2010

FILE - In this file photo of Wednesday April 22, 1998, young Israelis walk under the sign at Auschwitz concentration camp reading 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' (Work sets you free) during a tour of the site. A Polish court on Thursday, March 18, 2010 convicted three men of the theft of the notorious 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December. The men, two of whom are brothers, were given prison sentences ranging from 18 months to 2½ years. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File)AP - Food coupons for some of the notorious Nazi doctors at the Auschwitz death camp — including perhaps the sadistic Dr. Joseph Mengele — have been found in the…

Death toll climbs to 17 in spate of Baghdad blasts (AP)

March 4th, 2010

Hospital patient Coka Khudhyer, 72, attached to an oxygen tube, displays her inked finger after casting her vote at Al-Fayha hospital in Basra, Iraq, Thursday, March 4, 2010. Early voting in Iraq for detainees, hospital patients and military and security personnel is taking place Thursday, ahead of the parliamentary elections on Sunday, March 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP - A string of blasts across the Iraqi capital targeting voters killed 17 people Thursday, authorities said, ratcheting up fear in an already tense city as many Iraqis cast…

Europe storm death toll at 62; France hardest hit (AP)

March 1st, 2010

A car lies on the beach of Chatelaillon sur Mer, near La Rochelle, western France, Monday March 1, 2010, following yesterday's deadly storm, named Xynthia, that hit most parts of France.  Prime Minister Francois Fillon held an emergency cabinet meeting and afterward called the storm a 'national catastrophe.' (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - Thousands of firefighters and other rescue workers searched house by house Monday along France’s devastated Atlantic coast, trying to help those still stranded by a storm that smashed…

Chile quake death toll over 700 as rescue ramps up (AP)

March 1st, 2010

A man carries goods during looting in a supermarket in Concepcion, Chile, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010. A 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Chile early Saturday. (AP Photo/ Aliosha Marquez)AP - Police fired tear gas and imposed an overnight curfew to control looters who sacked virtually every market in this hard-hit city as Chile’s earthquake toll surpassed 700. President…

Death toll hits 53 as storms lash Europe (AFP)

March 1st, 2010

View taken in La Rochelle, western France, shows a van crushed by a tree. Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe, leaving at least 53 people dead and more than a million households without power.(AFP/Xavier Leoty)AFP - Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe, leaving at least 53 people dead and more than a million households without power.


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Chile quake death toll hits 708 as rescue ramps up (AP)

February 28th, 2010

People look at a collapsed building in Concepcion, Chile, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010. A 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Chile early Saturday. (AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Heroism and banditry mingled on Chile’s shattered streets Sunday as rescuers braved aftershocks digging for survivors and the government sent soldiers to quell looting. The death toll climbed…