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Tibetan monks prayed over hundreds of bodies Friday at a makeshift morgue next to their monastery after powerful earthquakes destroyed the town of Jiegu in  China, killing  least 1,144.

A powerful earthquake killed at least 67 people and left many others buried under debris early Wednesday.

Maoist rebels launched a series of devastating attacks Tuesday on government forces patrolling the forests of eastern India, killing at least 75 troops in the deadliest strike against the state in the 43-year insurgency....

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 has shaken eastern Turkey, killing at least 17 people in several villages.

A celebration of China's lunar new year turned deadly as a firecracker explosion killed 19 and wounded dozens, state media reported Saturday.

Police say a bus crowded with people returning home from a wedding party fell into a river in northern India, killing at least 22.

A top official says the blast on a bakery near a meditation center in western India was apparently caused by a bomb....

A massive avalanche plowed into an Indian army training center at a ski resort town in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, killing at least 17 soldiers and critically wounding 17 others.

A suicide car bomb exploded today in the middle of a group of men playing volleyball in northwest Pakistan, killing 30 and wounding 52, district police officials told CNN.

A police official says a suicide bomber has detonated his explosives outside a Shiite Muslim gathering in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, killing five people.