TEHRAN, Feb 23 - At least 84 people have died from drinking toxic bootleg liquor in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, and around 200 others have been hospitalized, a government minister said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Feb 22 - A fire in Bangladesh that killed at least 67 people in the oldest part of the capital shows the lapses in public safety that still plague the South Asian country despite its rapid economic growth.
TEHRAN, Jan 29 -The death toll from Brazil's collapsed mining dam climbed to 65, with 279 people still missing in southeast Brazil's Minas Gerais state, according to latest official data on Monday.
TEHRAN, Jan 2 -The death toll from landslides and devastating floods in the central Philippines triggered by a tropical depression climbed to 85, officials said on Wednesday, and 20 people were missing as rescuers slowly reached cut-off communities.
TEHRAN, December 23 - Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a senior member of the royal family who supported women's rights and once led a group of dissident princes, has died at the age of 87.
TEHRAN, December 22 -With the death toll from recent clashes reaching 10, the "Yellow Vest" protesters have taken to the streets across France for a sixth consecutive week in a challenge to the government of President Emmanuel Macron.
TEHRAN, December 19 - Some US lawmakers have called for a probe into the death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl at a US Border Patrol detention center in Lordsburg, New Mexico earlier this month.
TEHRAN, December 17 -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un paid tribute to late leaders as North Korea commemorates the seventh anniversary of Kim Jong Il's death , North Korean state media reported Monday.
TEHRAN, December 09 - Hundreds of demonstrators have hit the streets of Greece on the 10th anniversary of a teenager being fatally shot by an officer. Police deployed tear gas after some protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails at officers.
TEHRAN, December 05 - Top Republicans in the United States are attacking Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for ordering the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul in October.
TEHRAN, November 28 - Philippine leftists reacted with dismay on Wednesday to a threat by President Rodrigo Duterte to create a " death squad" to hunt what he said were Maoist assassins, a plan critics said could trigger a spree of killings similar to his bloody war on drugs.
TEHRAN, November 27 -Protests in in the US state of Alabama have continued over the death of a black man with police now suggesting the victim was killed because he "brandished" his gun.
TEHRAN, November 26- Up to 145 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding in a remote part of New Zealand, with authorities saying Monday they made the "heart-breaking" decision to euthanise dozens that lay stricken on the shore.
TEHRAN, November 25_An Egyptian court has upheld death sentences for nine people convicted of murdering the African country’s state prosecutor Hisham Barakat in a car bombing three years ago.