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Turkey mine blast kills at least 201, hundreds trapped
At least 201 people were killed and hundreds more remained trapped underground after an explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey, the government said Wednesday, warning that rescue efforts faced a race against time.
14 May 2014
Toll in migrant shipwreck rises to 17: Italy
The Italian navy on Tuesday said 17 bodies had been recovered and 206 people rescued by patrol boats and merchant ships from a migrant shipwreck in international waters between Libya and Italy.
14 May 2014
Mother, daughter held after Spain politician shot dead
Spanish police arrested a mother and daughter suspected of shooting dead a ruling party politician in broad daylight Monday in apparent revenge after the younger woman lost her job.
13 May 2014
Death toll rises to 10 in Colombia mine disaster
Rescue workers recovered more bodies Saturday of people killed in a landslide at an illegal gold mine in western Colombia, raising the death toll to 10, with an additional six feared dead.
04 May 2014
350 dead, hundreds missing in Afghan landslide village
More than 300 people were killed and hundreds of others feared dead after a landslide buried an Afghan village, officials said, as rescue teams on Saturday rushed to the scene in the hope of finding any survivors.
03 May 2014
Recovery of bodies from Korean ferry suspended
The operation to recover bodies from the ferry that sank off South Korea last month has been suspended due to heavy seas, a spokesman said Saturday, amid concern that many of the missing may never be found.
03 May 2014
Retired Brazil colonel who admitted torture found dead
A retired Brazilian colonel who last month admitted carrying out torture during the country's 1964-1985 military dictatorship has been found dead following a break-in at his suburban Rio home, police said Friday.
26 April 2014
Race to recover bodies from Korea ferry as storms loom
Dive teams raced Friday to pull more than 100 bodies from a sunken South Korean ferry as storm clouds loomed and the victims' families angrily pressed officials to wrap up the recovery effort.
25 April 2014
Three foreigners dead at Kabul hospital as guard opens fire
A guard at a Kabul hospital run by a US charity opened fire on staff Thursday, killing three foreigners including a doctor, in the latest attack targeting international civilians in the Afghan capital.
24 April 2014
Seven babies found dead in Utah home
Utah police responded to a tip that led to a grim discovery over the weekend, with seven dead infants found at their mother's home.
14 April 2014
Family of four found dead in Pavlodar suburbs
A family of four has been found dead in a suburb of Pavlodar.
09 April 2014
Australian charged with murder of young French woman
A young Australian man appeared in a Brisbane court on Wednesday charged with the rape and murder of 21-year-old French student Sophie Collombet, reports said.
09 April 2014
Suspected Fulani herdsmen kill 79 in Nigeria
The death toll in an attack by Fulani herdsmen on a village in northern Nigeria's Zamfara State rose to 79 from 30, a governor spokesman said.
07 April 2014
Two female Western journalists shot in Afghanistan, one dead: police
A female Western journalist was shot dead and another wounded in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost on Friday, on the eve of the country's presidential election, police said.
04 April 2014
Frenchwoman latest foreign student murdered in Brisbane
A Frenchwoman has become the fourth foreign student to be brutally murdered in the Australian city of Brisbane in almost as many months, police said Wednesday.
02 April 2014
Flood victims give account of disaster in Karaganda Oblast
Kokpekty villagers talked about the homes they lost in the flood caused by a dam burst.
01 April 2014
Astana may soon have its first crematorium
An entrepreneur from Astana Valikhan Sabilov is planning to build a private crematorium in the capital.
31 March 2014
Six dead, one missing in S. Korea fishing boat fire
Six people died after jumping off a fishing boat that caught fire off a South Korean island on Monday, with efforts underway to rescue its missing captain, the coastguard said.
24 March 2014
China hit by new flood of dead pigs in river
Chinese authorities have found 157 dead pigs in a river, state media said Wednesday, a year after 16,000 carcasses were discovered in Shanghai's main waterway, underscoring the country's food safety problems.
19 March 2014
Australian police dig for 'multiple' baby graves at rural home
Police in Australia began digging up a rural property on Tuesday searching for what reports said were "multiple babies" in secret graves.
18 March 2014