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(6/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has recovered the bodies of 56 coal miners trapped by floods over a month ago, state media said on Wednesday, the same day a gas blast killed 22 people in another mine.


(5/05)

BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Dozens of people were feared dead in a heat wave in an eastern Indian state, an official said on Tuesday, at the start of the harsh summer in which temperatures hit around 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). The government official confirmed seven heat wave deaths in Orissa and said the government was investigating at least 71 more cases. Details were unclear, but officials say deaths are normally caused by dehydration and sunstroke.


(7/02)

(Reuters) - A Ukrainian fighter jet killed at least 78 people and injured 115 Saturday when it hurtled to the ground and cartwheeled in flames into the crowd of spectators in the world's deadliest air show disaster. The Russian-built Sukhoi Su-27's wing clipped the ground as it failed to come out of a difficult rolling dive at the show outside the city of Lviv, close to the border with Poland.


(10/01)

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russia awaited answers from Ukraine on Sunday about a missile fired on the day a Russian airliner exploded over the Black Sea, killing up to 78 people.


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