TEHRAN, October 08 - The confirmed death toll from the devastating earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia's Sulawesi island neared 2,000 on Monday, but thousands more are believed unaccounted for and officials said search teams plan to stop looking for victims later this week.
TEHRAN, September 27 - Omani civil defense officials say firefighters found the dead after responding to the fire in the village, some 165 kilometers, or about 100 miles, northwest of Oman's capital, Muscat. The village sits along the country's coast with the Gulf of Oman.
TEHRAN, September 18 - A sixth person has died from his wounds after being shot by gunmen dressed as mariachi musicians in Mexico City's famed Garibaldi Plaza, officials said Monday.
TEHRAN, September 09 - Japanese authorities say 37 people have been confirmed dead from a powerful earthquake that struck the northern island of Hokkaido last week.
TEHRAN, September 06 - A suicide attack at a wrestling club in a Shi'ite neighborhood of the Afghan capital Kabul and a second explosion apparently targeting emergency services and journalists at the site killed at least 20 people and wounded 70 on Wednesday, officials said.
TEHRAN, September 04 - Libyan authorities say the death toll from fighting between rival armed groups in the capital Tripoli has climbed to at least 50 people including civilians.
TEHRAN, August 21 - At least 11 suspects and two soldiers died during shootouts with military personnel and police in greater Rio de Janeiro on Monday as violence erupted in several areas of the city that hosted the Summer Olympics two years ago.
TEHRAN, August 17 - Rescue workers use helicopters and boats to evacuate hundreds of people stranded on their home rooftops following unprecedented flooding in the southern Indian state of Kerala where more than 160 people have died.
TEHRAN, August 16 - Colombia's government said Wednesday that 19 of the victims of a deadly bus crush in Ecuador were its citizens, as Quito lowered the overall death toll from the accident.
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, August 9 - Greek authorities have released the names of those who died in the country's deadliest forest fire in decades, a list that includes several families.
TEHRAN, July 29 - A powerful storm slammed into Japan on Sunday, bringing heavy rain as it churned across western areas already hard hit by floods and landslides earlier this month.
TEHRAN, July 29 - The death toll from a Northern California wildfire rose to five with the discovery of human remains believed to be those of a missing elderly woman and her two great-grandchildren, even as fire crews battled on to quell flames that have devastated entire neighborhoods.
TEHRAN, February 24 - The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in the Somali capital late on Friday has risen to 45 from the initially reported 18, a senior government official said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, December 6 - A tropical cyclone that pounded Indonesia's main island of Java has killed 41 people, the country's disaster agency said Wednesday, more than double the initial toll, with tens of thousands displaced by severe flooding and landslides.
TEHRAN, October 15 - The death toll from floods and landslides in Vietnam has risen to 68. Some 35 people also remain missing. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been displaced after Tropical Storm Khanun hit Vietnam’s central and northern regions.
TEHRAN, September 5 - The number of deaths attributed to Hurricane Harvey, which recently hit the US Gulf coast, has reached at least 60 people, according to Texas emergency management officials.
TEHRAN, July 17, YJC - India has reported rising casualties from monsoon floods that have gripped the states to the northeast, west and east of the country.