TEHRAN, November 16 - A severe cyclone has unleashed heavy rains and winds of 90 kilometers (55 miles) per hour, killing at least 10 people in southern India.
TEHRAN, November 15 - The toll in the deadliest wildfires in recent California history climbed to 59 on Wednesday as authorities released a list of 130 people still missing.
TEHRAN, November 08 - Tajik security forces have killed at least 13 inmates at a prison in the city of Khujand where a riot broke out late on Wednesday, three security sources told Reuters on Thursday.
TEHRAN, November 05 - Relatives of the victims of an Indonesian jet that crashed into the sea off Jakarta last week killing all 189 on board demanded answers on Monday as to why the plane had been passed fit to fly and called for no let up in the search for loved ones.
TEHRAN, November 04 -Indonesian authorities on Sunday extended by three days the search for the victims and a black box from the wreckage of a passenger jet that crashed last week, killing all 189 people on board.
TEHRAN, October 29 -Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has offered his thoughts and prayers to the victims of a grisly mass shooting at a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh.
TEHRAN, October 02 - Desperation is visible everywhere in areas heavily damaged by an earthquake and tsunami, four days after the disaster devastated parts of Indonesia's central Sulawesi island.
TEHRAN, August 18 -A state funeral service was underway Saturday in Italy to commemorate dozens of people killed in Genoa's bridge disaster, as some outraged relatives shunned official ceremonies and rescuers pulled more bodies from the wreckage.
TEHRAN, August 11 - An earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok has killed 387 people, authorities said Saturday, adding hundreds of thousands of displaced people were still short of clean water, food and medicine nearly a week on.
TEHRAN, July 23 - Flooding triggered by a tropical storm has killed at least 20 people and left over a dozen missing in northern Vietnam, local media reports said.
TEHRAN, July 19 - On the anniversary of the coup led by military dictator Franciso Franco, which started the Spanish Civil War in 1936, about three hundred people demanded justice for the victims of the Franco era with a protest in Madrid.
TEHRAN, May 29 -Iran has severely slammed a New York court ruling which calls on Tehran to pay a large amount of money to the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
TEHRAN, May 15 - Flash floods caused by heavy rain in the past week have killed at least 34 people in several Afghan provinces and caused serious damage to property and livestock, officials said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, May 10 - Dozens of Bangladeshis were killed in lightning strikes as pre-monsoon thunderstorms wreaked havoc across the South Asian country, an official said Thursday.
TEHRAN, January 27 - The British state broadcaster, BBC, has been accused of silencing harassment victims by making them sign confidentiality agreements.
TEHRAN, November 19 - The death toll from the flash floods, which hit the western Athens suburb of Mandra on Wednesday, has risen to 19, as firefighters recovered the bodies of another three victims on Saturday, Greek national news agency, AMNA, reported.
TEHRAN, September 13 - The remains of about 20 victims from Bosnia's 1990s war, most likely Bosnian Muslims, have been exhumed from two newly-discovered mass graves, the Missing Persons Institute said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, August 15, YJC - The death toll from massive mudslides in Sierra Leone's capital was certain to rise on Tuesday as bodies washed up on a beach and workers searched for an untold number of people buried in their homes.
The death toll in a storm that struck Moscow and surrounding suburbs on Monday has risen to 16, and more than 200 others were injured, Russian officials said.
TEHRAN, May 29, YJC - Sri Lanka has deployed thousands of troops to supply aid to nearly half a million people dislodged by the island country's worst flooding for more than a decade, which has so far claimed nearly 180 lives.