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Report: Death toll in China quake exceeds 12,000

Report: Death toll in China quake exceeds 12,000

The toll of the dead and missing soared as rescue workers dug through flattened schools and homes on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find survivors of China's worst earthquake in three decades. Full Story

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  • Death toll from China quake soars past 13,000
    Death toll from China quake soars past 13,000

    The death toll in China's earthquake climbed past 13,000 on Tuesday and looked set to rise much higher after media said some 19,000 people were buried in rubble in just one area.

  • Bomb blasts kill 60 in western India
    Bomb blasts kill 60 in western India

    Sixty people were killed in a series of bomb attacks in India's western city of Jaipur on Tuesday evening, police, officials and witnesses said.

  • West urges Myanmar to act on crucial cyclone aid
    West urges Myanmar to act on crucial cyclone aid

    Heavy rains pelted homeless cyclone survivors in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Tuesday, complicating the already slow delivery of aid to more than 1.5 million people facing hunger and disease.

  • Lebanon's Hariri vows no surrender to Hezbollah
    Lebanon's Hariri vows no surrender to Hezbollah

    Lebanon's Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri pledged on Tuesday there would be no political surrender to what he called a bid by Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian backers to impose their will on the nation by force.

  • Olmert says understandings reached in peace talks
    Olmert says understandings reached in peace talks

    Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday he and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had reached "understandings and points of agreement" on some key issues in U.S-backed peace talks.

  • U.S. slams Zimbabwe for "harassment" of diplomats

    The United States condemned Zimbabwe's government on Tuesday for its "harassment" of the U.S. ambassador and other diplomats questioned by police after visiting post-election violence victims at a hospital.

  • Italian PM may be drawn into CIA abduction case
    Italian PM may be drawn into CIA abduction case

    An Italian judge could decide on Wednesday to make Silvio Berlusconi the first head of a government to testify in criminal proceedings over secret CIA transfers of terrorism suspects.

  • Shi'ite gunmen in Baghdad slum ignore truce
    Shi'ite gunmen in Baghdad slum ignore truce

    An agreement aimed at ending fighting in the Baghdad bastion of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr appeared on the verge of collapse on Tuesday after gunmen attacked U.S. troops.

  • Serb parties enter tense coalition negotiations
    Serb parties enter tense coalition negotiations

    Serbia's outgoing prime minister Vojislav Kostunica, once valued as a champion of reform by the West, teamed up with ultranationalist Radicals on Tuesday seeking to form the country's next government, his party said.

  • At least 44 dead in Bangladesh ferry accident
    At least 44 dead in Bangladesh ferry accident

    Bangladesh authorities abandoned recovery operations on Tuesday following a ferry accident which saw at least 44 people confirmed dead.

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