Stories tagged "deathtoll"

At least 30 people were killed or reported missing and about 180,000 homes destroyed in a powerful earthquake in southwest China.

The death toll from a series of bomb blasts in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad climbed to 45 as the provincial government ordered a probe along with federal agencies to search for suspects.

President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged that June was a difficult month for American and allied troops in Afghanistan, saying the higher death toll there was because troops are taking the fight to Taliban militants.

Militants killed more U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in June than in Iraq for the second straight month,.

American and allied combat deaths in Afghanistan in May passed the monthly toll in Iraq for the first time.

China warned Saturday that the death toll from a massive earthquake two weeks ago could take a major leap and pass 80,000, suggesting the government may be giving up hope of finding more survivors.

Military helicopters dropped food and medicine to Chinese earthquake survivors who remained cut off Wednesday in remote mountain villages behind roads clogged by landslides. The official death toll rose to nearly 15,000...

Foreign aid workers in Burma have concluded that as many as 50,000 people died in Saturday?s cyclone, and two to three million are homeless, in a disaster whose scale invites comparison with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Myanmar - A state radio station says the death toll from a devastating cyclone in Myanmar has risen to nearly 4,000. According to radio almost 3,000 others are unaccounted for in a single town. The government had previously put the death toll...

At least 97 percent of the deaths occurred after US President George W. Bush announced the end of "major combat" in Iraq on May 1, 2003, as the military became caught between a raging anti-American insurgency and brutal sectarian strife unleashed since th