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At least nine people have been killed while 10 others are missing after Typhoon Etau slammed into western Japan, bringing heavy rain and triggering floods and landslides. Japan's metereological agency said Etau packing winds of up to 108kph was moving ...

AFP - A town in a Tibetan area in northwest China has been sealed off after two of its residents died from pneumonic plague, the local government and state media said Sunday.

Police say 10 climbers have died on two mountains in northern Japan.

Police shot dead two Uighurs on Monday in renewed unrest in China's far northwestern region of Xinjiang, Reuters reported state radio as saying.

At least 184 people died in last weekend's violent protests in China's far-west Xinjiang region, state-run media reported.

Chinese state media says that 129 people have been killed and more than 800 hurt in violence in the country's western Xinjiang region.

A cyclone that tore into southern Bangladesh and eastern India has killed at least 168 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless, according to relief workers and news agencies.

At least 18 people have died in a scorching heat wave that has swept through more than a dozen Indian states, the weather department ...

An explosion at a detonator and dynamite warehouse at a coal mine in central China killed at least 18 people on Friday, according to Xinhua.