New York Times
By ANDREW JACOBS and EDWARD WONG BEIJING - After a year of obfuscation, the authorities on Thursday released the first official tally of student deaths from the earthquake last May, saying that 5335 children either were dead or remained missing.
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San Jose Mercury News, USA
The US Geological Survey reports that an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.0 occurred in the South Bay this morning. The earthquake hit at 11:11 am, according to the USGS. Its epicenter, which was about a fifth of a mile deep, was roughly 3 …
BBC News
By Duncan Kennedy Pope Benedict promised he would go to the earthquake region in central Italy and now he has fulfilled his word. He spent several hours touring villages and neighbourhoods where buildings have collapsed.
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Pope Benedict XVI is to travel to central Italy to visit survivors of the earthquake that struck on 6 April. He is due to see a number of areas devastated by the disaster and say prayers for nearly 300 people who died.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - A strong earthquake struck central Mexico on Monday, swaying tall buildings in the capital and sending office workers into the streets.
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Pope Benedict is to visit the site of the earthquake in central Italy which claimed 295 lives and made at least 50000 homeless, the Vatican says.
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Reuters UK
By Rafiq Sherzad MIR GADKHEL, April 18 (Reuters) - Survivors of a strong quake in a remote corner of eastern Afghanistan say they spent a freezing night in the rain outside the collapsed remains of their homes because promised government help did not …
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The US has said that it will send an aid convoy of military and civilian personnel to help earthquake struck Afghanistan. The quakes struck the eastern border region with Pakistan, a key area in the US war on Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, on Friday, …
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L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) - Among the thousands of people hard-hit by Italy's earthquake last week are a large number of immigrants who have seen the lives they built for themselves in a new land destroyed in an instant.
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The misery of survivors of the Italian earthquake is being compounded by heavy rain and plummeting temperatures. A week after the catastrophe and many thousands made homeless by the tremor are still being accommodated in tents.
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