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  8 killed, 23 injured as earthquake measuring 5.5 on Richter scale hits China

  World | May 11, 2017 13:58 IST

  An earthquake reported from China’s Xinjiang region measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale killed 8 people and left 23 injured.

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  Uganda declared free of deadly Marburg fever

  World | November 12, 2014 6:57 IST

  Kampala: Uganda's ministry of health on Tuesday declared the East African country officially free of the deadly Marburg epidemic, which killed one health worker and left 197 people quarantined.Sarah Achieng Opendi, the state minister for

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  Deadly Egyptian soccer riots of 2012

  Football | January 28, 2014 7:56 IST

  New Delhi: Soccer is the world's most popular Olympic sport, but  in Port Said, Egypt, on 1st Feb, 2012,  people who called themselves lovers of soccer  turned their favourite game into an ugly one. The

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  Pakistani Christians protest deadly church bombing

  World | September 23, 2013 16:41 IST

  Peshawar: Angry Pakistani Christians on Monday denounced the deadliest attack ever in this country against members of their faith as the death toll from the church bombings the day before climbed to 81.A pair of

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  40 still missing in deadly Canada rail crash, fire

  World | July 08, 2013 11:21 IST

  Lac-Megantic, Jul 8: About 40 people were still missing a day after a runaway train derailed in Quebec, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed a busy downtown district and killed five people. Police said a

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  Deadly, drug-resistant bacteria spreading in US

  World | March 07, 2013 15:16 IST

  Washington, March 7:  Deadly infections from bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics are on the rise in the US, and hospitals and health care workers must take immediate action to protect patients, doctors at

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  Soccer hooliganism turns deadly in Chile

  Football | October 02, 2012 11:31 IST

  Santiago, Oct 2: One man was killed and another badly wounded in a shooting attributed by Chilean police to a feud between rival factions of fans of the Colo Colo soccer club.The incident occurred in

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  India Shuns Treaty Banning Deadly Cluster Bombs

  India | July 31, 2010 9:04 IST

  A landmark treaty banning cluster munitions will come into force from August 1, the United Nations announced, but all major powers, the US, China, Russia Israel and India are shunning it.The convention on cluster munitions