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Some293peoplehavebeenconfirmedkilledinthe7.1-magnitudeearthquakethathitcentralMexicoonTuesday,theheadofthenationalcivilprotectionagency,LuisFelipePuente,saidonF
Adele has gone out of her way to offer support to the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire. In the wake of the June tragedy that claimed the lives of at least 80 people, she made numerous visits to the scene in North Kensington, including bringing cake to the firefighters who had worked so bravely during the rescue operation. Now it's emerged that she has recently hosted a cinema trip for the survivors of the devastating west London fire.
AdelehasgoneoutofherwaytooffersupporttothesurvivorsoftheGrenfellTowerfire.InthewakeoftheJunetragedythatclaimedthelivesofatleast80people,shemadenumerousvisitstot
ThedeathtollinabuildingcollapseinIndia'sMaharashtrastatehasrisento17,while11otherswererescuedininjuredconditionfromtherubbles,officialssaidWednesday.The40-year-
ThescaleoftheGrenfellTowerdisasterinwhichatleast58peoplehavediedhasreceivedworldwidecoverageandprovokedanunusualamountofangerintheBritishpublic,witharesultingim
The Nepalese National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the opposition party in the country have slammed the government for slow action in the post-quake reconstruction.
It was the cries of children — and the moment they decided they must save themselves — that haunt the survivors of a shipwreck that claimed hundreds of lives.
Some 700 migrants and refugees are feared to have died in three shipwrecks that occurred in the southern Mediterranean this week, the United Nation refugee agency UNCHR and charities assisting survivors in Italy said on Sunday.
As many as 500 people may have lost their lives when a large ship went down in the Mediterranean Sea at an unknown location between Libya and Italy this weekend, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.
Touring a city ravaged by the earthquake that killed at least 413 people, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa contemplated a rebuilding costing billions of dollars and a potentially "huge" impact on the fragile Opec economy.
One of the 100 or so survivors of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 has been saved after a life-threatening lung condition at a hospital in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, the Modern Express reported.
Two years after Bangladesh's worst ever industrial tragedy, a rather gloomy picture has been captured in a research survey conducted by a leading international charity.
South Korean lawmakers on Thursday passed a resolution that calls for the salvaging of the sunken Sewol ferry, which has been demanded by family members of the victims and survivors.
Nanjing released new evidence and testimony on Friday from survivors of the massacre that took place in the city 76 years ago.
Four more bodies were recovered from a maritime tragedy in the central Philippine province of Cebu, bringing the death toll to 75, the Philippine Coast Guard said Thursday.