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International talks on the Iranian nuclear issue concluded with positive results, with the Iranians agreeing to open a nuclear facility to UN inspectors and all parties agree to resume talks later this month.
Rescue workers pulled victims, some screaming in pain, from the rubble of buildings felled by a powerful quake that killed at least 777. Toll may be thousands
Iran's Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki said Thursday that Iran supports continued talks with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany.
Rescue teams struggled on Thursday to reach scores of people trapped under debris after a powerful quake hit the Indonesian city of Padang, possibly killing thousands.
Stunned Samoans combed through the sodden wreckage of their lives and told of the terror of being trapped underwater or flung inland by a tsunami that ravaged towns and killed at least 150 people in the South Pacific.
Rescue workers used excavators Thursday to pull out victims from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 529 people.
A government official says the death toll in Wednesday's earthquake on Indonesia's Sumatra island has reached 467. Aid flows to tsunami-hit Samoas as deaths hit 119
At least 200 people have been killed by the powerful earthquake that struck western Indonesia, local officials said. Aid flows to tsunami-hit Samoas as deaths hit 119
A powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia Wednesday, killing at least 75 people and trapping thousands under collapsed buildings.
A boat carrying 75 tourists capsized on a reservoir in southern India on Wednesday, killing at least 28 people and leaving dozens missing, police said.
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