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Rescue workers evacuate people through the water in an area affected by floods after heavy rains in Dili, East Timor, April 4, 2021. REUTERS/Lirio da Fonseca

Indonesia, East Timor flood death toll surges past 150: officials

Indonesia’s disaster management agency said it had recorded 130 deaths in a cluster of remote islands near East Timor, where another 27 have been officially listed as dead

Gravediggers work at the municipal cemetery in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. YURI CORTEZ/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

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Global Covid death toll nears 2.5 million

Uttarakhand glacier burst: 31 bodies recovered, 175 still missing. Photo/Courtesy

Uttarakhand glacier burst: 31 bodies recovered, 175 still missing

Mourners attend a funeral amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett, Massachusetts, US, May 4, 2020/ Reuters

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Global Covid-19 death toll nearing 2 million

Ethiopian forces/ Reuters

Death toll from armed attack in western climbs to 207

Rising death toll tempers US enthusiasm over coming Covid vaccine

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Rising death toll tempers US enthusiasm over coming Covid vaccine

Guatemalan mudslides push storm Eta's death toll near 150

With 81 dead, hopes of finding Turkey quake survivors fading

US jails are outsourcing medical care — and the death toll is rising

US jails are outsourcing medical care — and the death toll is rising

26 more Covid-19 deaths, 1,488 fresh cases

Covid-19 in Bangladesh

26 more Covid-19 deaths, 1,488 fresh cases

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Covid-19 death toll unacceptably high: WHO

Government workers wearing protective suits carry a mock-up of a coffin of a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) victim as others carry signs displaying information about the number of Covid-19 cases on a main road to warn people about the dangers of the disease as the outbreak continues in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 28, 2020/ Reuters

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Covid-19: Global death toll hits 855,444

A patient is wheeled to an ambulance during the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, US, March 26, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

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US surpasses 180,000 virus deaths: Johns Hopkins