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A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn on Tuesday, the largest in a series of quakes that have struck the US territory in recent days and caused heavy damage in some areas.
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By AFP
Buenos Aires -
No one can escape Argentina's biggest economic crisis in almost two decades -- not even the dead. The cost of buying, renting and maintaining graves and tombs is so high that many people opt to cremate their loved ones instead.
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By AFP
Havana -
Harry Villegas, a Cuban guerilla who served under Che Guevara in his doomed Bolivia campaign and subsequently walked in his funeral procession, has died in Havana, state television reported on Sunday.
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By AFP
Bangkok -
A French tourist has died after falling from a waterfall while trying to take a selfie in Thailand, police said Friday.
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By AFP
Istanbul -
The British founder of a group that helped establish the Syrian White Helmets rescue organisation has died in Istanbul, his office said on Monday.
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By AFP
Phnom Penh -
A 21-year-old British tourist whose body was found floating in the sea off the Cambodian coast accidentally drowned, an official said Friday, ruling out foul play after a days-long search grabbed international headlines.
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By AFP
New York -
A forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein's brother said Wednesday that evidence suggested the disgraced financier had not died by suicide in his jail cell but had been murdered.
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By AFP
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Greece has acquired its first crematorium, organisers said Thursday, capping decades of efforts blocked by the powerful Greek Orthodox Church, which believes cremation disrespects the human body.
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By AFP
London -
Legendary British drummer Ginger Baker, a founding member of British psychedelic band Cream, died on Sunday aged 80, it was announced on his Twitter account.
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By AFP
Washington -
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday sent belated condolences to France following the death of former president Jacques Chirac, who passed away last week.
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By AFP
Harare -
Data on health, economics, corruption, press freedom and migration reveal much about Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule. He died aged 95 in Singapore on September 6, nearly two years after he was ousted by the military in 2017.
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By AFP
Harare -
Data on health, economics, corruption, press freedom and migration reveal much about Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule. He died aged 95 in Singapore on September 6, nearly two years after he was ousted by the military in 2017.
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By AFP
Wellington -
A teenager lay dead in his campus dorm room for up to two months, a New Zealand university said Thursday, with the young man's body only discovered after fellow residents complained of the smell.
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By AFP
Cairns -
An Australian scientist has proved that human bodies move around significantly for more than a year after death, in findings that could have implications for detectives and pathologists around the world.
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By AFP
Hanoi -
The task of safeguarding the embalmed corpse of Vietnam's revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh is gruelling: carefully-selected riflemen work around the clock, watching over the communist nation's founding father who died 50 years ago Monday.
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By AFP
New York -
Outrage and intrigue over the apparent suicide in prison of well-connected accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein soared Sunday as US lawmakers pushed for answers, including whether "criminal acts" played a role in his death.
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By AFP
Frankfurt Am Main -
An Eritrean man accused of killing an eight-year-old boy by pushing him under a train in Germany had been on the run from Swiss police after a violent incident last week, authorities said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Frankfurt Am Main -
An Eritrean man accused of killing an eight-year-old boy by pushing him under a train is a Swiss-based father-of-three who will be examined for a psychiatric disorder, authorities said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Frankfurt Am Main -
An eight-year-old boy died Monday when a man pushed him and his mother in front of a train in Germany's Frankfurt railway station, police said.
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By AFP
Moscow -
Russian boxer Maxim Dadashev has died from injuries sustained in a fight in Maryland, the Russian boxing federation announced on Tuesday.
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By AFP
Washington -
A grieving Canadian man who lost his family in the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX in Ethiopia in March told the US Congress Wednesday that his life had "no meaning anymore", calling the aircraft manufacturer's practices "shameful.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
From the biggest names in its music world to the humblest of its citizens, Brazil paid heartfelt homage Sunday to its "greatest artist," Joao Gilberto, the pioneering bossa nova musician who died a day earlier.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
From the biggest names in its music world to the humblest of its citizens, Brazil paid heartfelt homage Sunday to its "greatest artist," Joao Gilberto, the pioneering bossa nova musician who died a day earlier.
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By AFP
Mumbai -
Thirteen bodies have been recovered in western India after the heaviest monsoon rains in a decade breached a dam and caused mayhem in Mumbai, authorities said Thursday.
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By AFP
Dubai -
A son of the ruler of Sharjah was buried in the emirate Wednesday, as a three-day mourning period began after his unexpected death in London.Sheikh Khalid bin Sultan al-Qasimi was reported to be 39.
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By AFP
Melbourne -
Terminally ill Australians can for the first time apply to end their own life, after new laws went into effect in the state of Victoria Wednesday.
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By AFP
Patna -
More than 100 children in the Indian state of Bihar -- home to some of the country's worst health indicators -- have now been killed by a brain virus potentially linked to lychees, officials said.
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By AFP
Athens -
People celebrating Gay Pride in Athens Saturday paid tribute to an LGBTI activist beaten to death last year, with marchers scattering glitter and confetti at the spot where he was killed.
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Toronto -
Now this is why we go to live theatre. Soulpepper’s explosive new production of Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County” makes you feel as if you’re being smacked on the head a hundred times with the Frying Pan of Truth. In the best way.
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By AFP
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The family of a Palestinian former intelligence agent, who have claimed that he was tortured by Turkish authorities, said Tuesday that Egyptian prosecutors had approved their request for an autopsy.
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One part of Norris Geyser Basin. Yellowstone National Park
Jim Morrison flickr/lander2006
Aaron Swartz, Internet activist and programmer played a key role in stopping a controversial online piracy bill in Congress, has died at age 26, an apparent suicide, New York authorities said January 13, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Noah Berger
A cemetery in France Wimbledonian on Flick'r
The Aeternal is a futuristic hearse created to offer a luxurious and high-tech burial. Lunatic Koncepts
Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, biologist and head of operations at Promessa Organic is developing a new method of disposition for the dead called 'promession'. Described as an environmentally friendly form of burial, and could in fact be the greenest of green disposition options. The Daily Undertaker
Entrance to the Body Farm- Security is a high priority at the Body Farm. Fences, padlocks, video surveillance cameras, and police patrols safeguard the world’s only human-decomposition research facility. University of Tennessee
Robert Dziekanski, a landed immigrant from Poland is seen on this framegrab from a video taken by Paul Pritchard, at the arrivals area of the Vancouver airport on October 14, 2007. Paul Pritchard
The photo that made Robert Capa famous from the Spanish Civil War. Wikipedia
Cemetery in China. Faungg's photo
A Victorian hearse, pulled by two splendid black horses, waits outside the British Library
Dave Goldberg died while exercising on a treadmill TechCrunch
A trail of life and death in the bush.
Old grave in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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FAMILY: The young gorilla on the right, Hasani, is the brother of Habibe, the gorilla who died Nov. 7 in an accident at San Francisco Zoo. Daniel Ramirez/Wikimedia Commons
The widows waiting at the Fairmont Mine Disaster in 1907 Mine Safety and Health Administration of Dept of Labor
Classical-style painting of the death of Julius Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini Wikipedia Vincenzo Camuccini
It has always been thought that drinking shortened your life span. But studies now show that moderate drinkers live longer than people who abstain from drinking. chelsea
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