http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/deathtoll/ en-us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:45:15 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282579/posts A car bomb exploded in a crowded outdoor market in the northern city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, killing at least 27 people, police said, a deadly reminder of the challenges facing the Iraqi government even as it celebrated the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from cities. The bombing marred what had otherwise been a festive day as Iraqis commemorated the newly declared National Sovereignty Day with military parades and marching bands. It also came hours after four U.S. soldiers were killed in combat Monday in Baghdad. Although there were no immediate claims of responsibility, the bombing and the way it... AP via Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282579/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:45:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282675/posts BAGHDAD – A car bomb exploded in a crowded outdoor market in the northern city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, killing at least 27 people, police said, a deadly reminder of the challenges facing the Iraqi government even as it celebrated the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from cities. The bombing marred what had otherwise been a festive day as Iraqis commemorated the newly declared National Sovereignty Day with military parades and marching bands. It also came hours after four U.S. soldiers were killed in combat Monday in Baghdad. Although there were no immediate claims of responsibility, the bombing and the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282675/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:13:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276178/posts At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when police clashed with "terrorists" in Tehran on Saturday, state TV says. It said "rioters" set two petrol stations and a mosque on fire and attacked a military post, during protests over disputed elections. State TV earlier said 13 had died, but the toll was then reduced. The reports cannot be verified as foreign media in Iran are being severely restricted. State media said calm had returned to Tehran on Sunday. It was unclear whether fresh protests would go ahead, after official demands for them to stop. BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276178/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:19:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276073/posts CNN on Saturday night reported that at least 19 people had died as a result of gunfire from government forces during the demonstrations in Teheran, Shiraz and Isfehan. The news network based the report on eyewitness accounts of medical officials in Teheran's hospitals. CNN also quoted unconfirmed reports that put the actual death toll at 150. A week of massive street protests over the results of Iran's presidential elections escalated into open defiance of the entire regime on Saturday, when thousands took to the streets of Teheran chanting "Death to the Dictatorship." Ignoring the Friday warning by Iran's Supreme Leader... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276073/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:21:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272672/posts The latest update from the Iranian election protests. State radio: 7 killed in Tehran clashes TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's state radio says seven people died in clashes in Tehran after an "unauthorized gathering" following a mass rally over alleged election fraud. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272672/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:56:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272655/posts TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – Seven people were killed when a military post was attacked near a rally held a day ago in Tehran to protest the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, radio Payam announced. "Several thugs wanted to attack a military post and vandalise public property in the vicinity of Azadi Square," the radio said referring to the site of the rally held on Monday. "Unfortunately seven people were killed and several others wounded in the incident." However, a source told AFP that the emergency services department had information that eight people were killed and several wounded in the incident. AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272655/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:57:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272718/posts Twenty people were killed at rallies across Iran on Tuesday, as opposition activists demontrated against the disputed results of last week's presidential elections, according to various media reports. Meanwhile, Iran's top legislative body said Tuesday it was ready to recount the votes in the election won by hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran's Guardian Council said a recount of disputed ballot boxes may lead to changes in candidates' tally, according to the television report. Defeated candidate Mirhossein Mousavi has appealed to the council for the election to be annulled, but has said he was not optimistic about its verdict. Also on... Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272718/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:58:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272668/posts Iranian state radio says seven people were killed during Monday's protests in Tehran over the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The reports said the deaths came after "thugs" attacked a military post. The BBC's Jon Leyne says that in light of what he saw of the vast and largely peaceful protests this seems an unlikely version of events. Meanwhile, the country's Guardian Council has now described the results of the disputed poll as "provisional". Our correspondent says the authorities appear to be weakening in their support for President Ahmadinejad. ... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272668/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:44:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262520/posts An Air France passenger jet traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared and was presumed to have crashed after its electrical systems malfunctioned during a violent electric storm on Sunday evening. Officials said Monday that a search had begun for the wreckage in a vast swath of the Atlantic Ocean. Experts were at a loss to explain fatal damage to a modern jetliner from either lightning or turbulence, even that of a tropical storm. “Air France is extremely distraught and the whole team of Air France is suffering,” Pierre Henri Gourgeon, the chief executive of Air France-KLM, told reporters... New York Times International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262520/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 23:48:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260259/posts 5-2009 5-2009 21 0 0 21 28 0.75 4-2009 4-2009 19 0 0 19 30 0.63 3-2009 3-2009 9 0 0 9 31 0.29 ICasualties http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260259/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 02:23:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259886/posts Pakistan should implement already existing anti-tobacco laws to protect people from the tobacco epidemic, especially as the country has signed the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control — requiring signatories to post ‘health warnings describing the harmful effects of tobacco use’ on cigarette packets and recommending that pictures form part of the warnings. This is what experts recommended at a seminar organised by Aga Khan University (AKU) in collaboration with the Pakistan Chest Society, the National Alliance for Tobacco Control and Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) to commemorate World No Tobacco Day and its 2009 theme ‘Tobacco Health Warnings,’ APP... Dawn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259886/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 15:44:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257589/posts Five years of research into one of mankind's darkest episodes has convinced a French Catholic priest that the death toll in the Holocaust is far higher than the generally accepted figure of 6 million. Father Patrick Desbois has identified 800 of the estimated 2,000 gravesites of Jews who were rounded up and shot across the Ukraine. Documenting these graves is certain to boost the current estimate of 1.7 million Jews murdered in the Ukraine, he says. He expects similar work elsewhere in eastern Europe will raise the death toll even further. "Surely, at the end of it all, the numbers... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257589/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 02:40:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254987/posts The Obama administration’s proposed mileage standards that will be announced today may kill more Americans at a faster rate than the Iraq War — his signature issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Obama’s standards will require automakers to meet a 35 miles-per-gallon standard by 2016 — four years earlier than the same standard imposed by the Energy Security and Independence Act of 2007. As discussed in my new book “Green Hell,” the only way for carmakers to meet these standards is to make smaller, lighter and deadlier cars. The National Academy of Sciences has linked mileage standards with about 2,000... cnsnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254987/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 21:27:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248282/posts * Taliban plant roadside bombs in populated streets, destroy two schools, kill prayer leader * Troops secure Shangla top, key townsThe security forces said on Sunday they had killed up to 200 Taliban in 24 hours during the on-going operation in Swat as they secured the Shangla top and important towns and ridges in Dir and Buner. Troops engaged the Taliban in their Peochar headquarters and at hideouts in Kanju, Mingora, Banai Baba, Namal, Qambar, Fizagath, Tiligram and Chamtalai, the Inter-Services Public Relations directorate said in an update. Taliban’s indiscriminate mortar fire and roadside bombs planted in populated areas killed... Daily Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248282/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 02:27:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240550/posts In the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... Just in case you forgot, Americans are STILL fighting and dying in two overseas wars, and innocent civilians continue to die in horrible ways. I can see how this could slip your mind, as you will no longer see ANY mention of these, AT ALL, on any alphabet network evening news shows. The "Daily Death Count Update's!" on the 30 minute network news broadcasts ENDED on Nov 4, the day Obama was elected. With a Democrat in the White House, American Soldier Deaths are no longer even WORTH reporting, as they now have... TCRLAF, Icasualties.org, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240550/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:56:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240246/posts WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - A government official confirmed the first U.S. death from the new H1N1 swine flu on Wednesday, a 23-month-old child who died in Texas. rooooters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240246/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:44:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238936/posts The suspected death toll from the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico rose Monday to 149 people as health authorities cancelled all schools across the country until May 6. Mexican cabinet officials led by Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova gave a press conference today in Mexico City with the latest information they have gathered about the outbreak of a deadly new strain of swine flu that has halted many aspects of public life here and appears to continue to be spreading. Since the first case of swine flu was reported, 1,995 people have been hospitalized with serious cases of pneumonia,... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238936/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:06:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239002/posts Mexico canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from a swine flu epidemic believed to have killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained. Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said 20 of the deaths have been confirmed to be from swine flu and the government was awaiting results on the others. "We are the most critical moment of the epidemic. The number of cases will keep rising so we have to reinforce preventive measures," Cordova said at a news conference that was briefly shaken by an earthquake centered in southern Mexico. WSB-TV / The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239002/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:38:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238428/posts Note: The following text is a quote: April 26, 2009 Taliban bombs kill 16 children To which a Pakistani minister asserts, "The Taliban have exposed their real face by killing innocent children." His point, apparently, is that by killing children, the Taliban have proven that they are behaving un-Islamicly: after all, did the prophet himself not say that women and children should not be killed (only enslaved)? Yet, when jihadis asked Muhammad if it was permissible to attack infidel villages indiscriminately even if women and children were there, he flatly said, "They are from among them," which jurists have long... (Sky News) via jIHAD WATCH.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2238428/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:47:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237965/posts Mexico City - The death toll from a spreading wave of influenza in Mexico has climbed to 81, Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said Saturday evening. Twenty of the lethal infections have been definitively linked to the newly emerging strain of swine flu, he said. All told, 1,324 people have been admitted to hospital for examination. In the United States, 11 non-lethal cases of a similar strain of influenza have been identified by the Centres for Disease Control, with tests pending on another 10 cases. The Geneva-based World Health Organization declared the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico and... Earth Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237965/posts#comment Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:32:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237878/posts The number of deaths linked to the swine flu outbreak in Mexico has risen to 81, the country's government has announced. Sky News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237878/posts#comment Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:49:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227675/posts Peru's Shining Path have rebels killed 13 soldiers in two separate ambushes in the south-east of the country. The defence minister, Antero Flores Araoz, said the rebels attacked a military patrol with grenades and dynamite killing a captain and 11 soldiers in one of the most deadliest attacks by the guerrillas in the past decade. Both attacks took place in the Ayacucho region, 340 miles from the capital, Lima. telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227675/posts#comment Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:33:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225154/posts SNIP "I've never seen such a large number [of killings] over such a short period of time involving so many victims," said Jack Levin, a noted criminologist at Northeastern University who has authored or co-authored eight books on mass murder. The simple fact, criminologist James Alan Fox said, is that more Americans are struggling. "The American dream to them is a nightmare, and the land of opportunity is but a cruel joke," said Fox, also of Northeastern, who has been dubbed the "dean of death" for his analysis of mass murders. "The economic pie is shrinking to the point where... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225154/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:41:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223250/posts At least 92 people are dead and 50,000 homeless in an earthquake which has flattened parts of central Italy. A firefighter searches through the rubble in L'Aquila Rescuers have been digging bodies out from the collapsed ruins of dozens of houses and emergency services said the death toll was "bound to rise". Gianfranco Fini, speaker of Italy's lower house of parliament, said entire towns have been "virtually destroyed" with 15,000 buildings off limits. The tremor struck at just after 3.30am local time this morning and measured 6.3 on the Richter scale. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has declared a state of... Sky News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223250/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:54:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223107/posts At Least 6 Dead as Buildings Fall in Quake in Italy By RACHEL DONADIO Published: April 6, 2009 ROME — At least six people, four of them children, died and others were injured when an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 shook central Italy early Monday morning, seriously damaging buildings in the mountainous Abruzzo Region east of Rome, officials told Italian news media. The New York Times Related Times Topics: Earthquakes The epicenter was in L’Aquila, a picturesque Medieval fortress hill town, where a number of people were trapped under rubble, officials said. The situation is “extremely critical, as many... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223107/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:29:21 GMT