Sectarian clashes continue across the country as death toll escalates
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UN To Stop Updating Syria Death Toll
Information harder to verify as bloody civil war drags on
Supertyphoon Haiyan: Death Toll Reaches 5,719
Official count being hampered by difficult recovery of bodies
Bird Flu: China Reports 102 H7N9 Cases, 20 Deaths
Experts are suspecting human-to-human transmission, but there is no evidence confirming this yet
Syria’s Rising Death Toll: The Darkness Before the Dawn or Sign of a Grinding Stalemate?
At least 60,000 Syrians have been killed in the country’s civil war since March 2011, U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay reported Wednesday. Despite that death toll, which Pillay described as “truly shocking,” U.N. envoy …
After the Beijing Floods: Why Does China Obscure Death-Toll Statistics?
Chinese officials announced that the death toll from recent floods in Beijing was 77, not the earlier reported 37. Despite the authorities’ recent pledges of openness, an instinct to tightly control information remains in the …