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Longtoushan/China, Aug 5: More than 400 people have died in an earthquake that devastated a Chinese village, state media said on Tuesday, as relatives faced the stark probability that rescuers would only find the remains of their loved ones. The death toll in the southwestern province of Yunnan had risen to 407, state broadcaster CCTV said on a verified Twitter account, as concerns mounted over a

Kathmandu, Aug 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday personally handed over a Nepalese youth to his parents here having nurtured him for 16 years. 26-year-old Jeet Bahadur, who is currently pursuing BBA in Ahmedabad, had come to India in 1998 along with his brother looking for work . Bahadur came in contact with Mr. Modi in Ahmedabad over a decade back and was since looked after by him. He

Jerusalem, Jul 28: Thousands of people took part in the funeral of a 27-year-old Indian-origin Israeli soldier killed after being hit by a mortar shell near the Gaza Strip border while Israel was holding fire under a UN-brokered humanitarian truce. Barak Refael Degorker, killed on Saturday night, was laid to rest yesterday in a military cemetery in his hometown of Gan Yavne. The bereaved family

Ouagadougo/Burkina Faso, Jul 25: French officials dispatched a military unit to secure the site in restive northern Mali where an Air Algerie plane crashed with the loss of 116 people. France's interior minister said Friday that terrorism cannot be excluded as a cause for the tragedy, though it was likely due to bad weather. French president Francois Hollande announced Friday that there were no

Algiers, Jul 24: An Air Algerie flight that went missing en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers has crashed, an Algerian aviation official told Reuters on Thursday. "I can confirm that it has crashed," the official said, declining to give details of where the plane was or what caused the accident. The flight en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers went missing with 110 passengers and

Plainfield/Indiana Jul 24: A US teenager who was attempting to set a record for an around-the-world flight was killed when his plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean, and crews were searching Wednesday for his father, who was also onboard. Family spokeswoman Annie Hayat said the plane flown by 17-year-old Haris Suleman went down shortly after leaving Pago Pago in American Samoa Tuesday night. Hayat

Taipei (Taiwan), Jul 24: A plane attempting to land in stormy weather crashed on a small Taiwanese island today, killing 47 people and wrecking houses and cars on the ground. The ATR-72 operated by Taiwan's TransAsia Airways was carrying 58 passengers and crew when it crashed on Penghu in the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China, authorities said. The plane was arriving from the city of

Gaza/Jerusalem, Jul 23: Several international airlines today halted flights to Israel indefinitely, citing security concerns as high-level diplomatic efforts failed to yield any result to end the 16-day conflict that has killed 650 Palestinian civilians and a few dozens of Israeli terrorists. Delta was the first carrier to halt flights to and from Israel after diverting a flight carrying 273

Ankara, Jul 20: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Israel of "barbarism that surpasses Hitler" during its ground invasion of Gaza. Erdogan accused Israel of using disproportionate force in Gaza and said the operation there has derailed efforts to normalize Turkish-Israeli ties. Those soured after Israel's 2010 raid on an aid ship which killed eight Turks and a Turkish-American

San Leandro/Calif, Jul 19: Indian American thought leader and social entrepreneur Priya Haji was found dead in her home July 14 at the age of 44. She leaves behind two young children, an 11-month-old daughter, Zen, and two-year-old son, Omi. Haji — whose unusual name reflected her ethnic mix of a Hindu mother and Muslim father — was one of the most effective and influential activists in the South