Others report much higher death tolls in that impoverished country.
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Hospitals have gone without power, resulting in uncounted death tolls.
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Too often we read news of death tolls without analysis.
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It has one of the highest death tolls in Europe.
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Death tolls will be curbed dramatically if the shutdown continues.
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The big picture: The death tolls from mass shootings are rising.
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This doesn't register as much as epidemics with smaller death tolls.
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We also found out how death tolls are calculated for storms.
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Different death tolls are common in the immediate aftermath of bombings.
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The government and al Shabaab often give differing accounts of death tolls.
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The death tolls of subsequent heat waves have not come anywhere close.
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Ten million lives were lost, one of history's highest wartime death tolls.
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Death tolls are the primary way we understand the impact of a disaster.
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Outrage leads to exaggerations, to elevated death tolls, to rumors becoming eyewitness accounts.
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Conflicting death tolls are common in the aftermath of attacks in isolated places.
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Because I don't want to go back to those death tolls in this country.
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Journalists are in real peril around the world with death tolls never seen before.
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Officials have given conflicting death tolls since the storm ravaged towns and displaced thousands.
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Despite regular outbreaks every few years, death tolls in Congo have been significantly lower.
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Death tolls are uncertain, and the extent of the storm's damage is still emerging.
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Al Shabaab typically gives death tolls that are higher than numbers given by officials.
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Mitigating disaster: Both countries have improved storm preparedness in recent years to decrease death tolls.
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The discrepancy in death tolls is common in the early hours of such large attacks.
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The earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed nearly 1,350, according to the most-recent death tolls.
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The trend comes as questions are raised about rising civilian death tolls from coalition strikes.
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"I don't want to go back to those death tolls in this country," Feinstein said.
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The Turkish military has given death tolls for soldiers and PKK militants, but not civilians.
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By not recognizing the number—compared to Carolina, what, we have hourly death tolls. Hourly.
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Death tolls given by al Shabaab are usually much higher than those given by officials.
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Slowly, videos have leaked from whistle-blowers revealing outbreaks and unreported death tolls in hospitals.
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It was one of the biggest, single death tolls involving Canadian citizens in recent times.
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But official death tolls often fail to capture the full lethality of a heat wave.
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Death tolls inform the way people and governments talk about past disasters, and also future preparedness.
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The images of drowned refugees in recent years have shocked, but death tolls are still climbing.
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Death tolls have risen in Guatemala as explosions continue to escalate at the country's Fuego volcano.
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One thing about facts — death tolls, numbers tortured, an author's work: You can look them up.
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"Sixteen versus literally thousands of people," Trump said, noting the difference in the official death tolls.
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Death tolls are one of the main ways the public understands the impact of a disaster.
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Reports of the death tolls vary between 13 and 15, with at least 30 people wounded.
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But some European countries, notably Italy and Spain, have seen higher death tolls than China did.
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The disease has spread globally with the number of infected people and death tolls rising daily.
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And the next eight years brought at least seven shootings with similar or greater death tolls.
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Iranian state media has offered differing death tolls for the attack, ranging from 27 to 41.
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These are the highest death tolls from overdoses recorded in any single year in US history.
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Wikipedia's annual death tolls also benefit in these rankings from being, essentially, big lists updated nearly daily.
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He said weekly death tolls for security forces in the province could reach as high as 250.
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Here's why these eruptions are so different -- and why they have drastically different death tolls: Lava vs.
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For the latest case totals, death tolls, and travel information, see Business Insider's live coronavirus updates here.
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For the latest coronavirus case totals, death tolls, and travel information, see Business Insider's live updates here.
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While al Shabaab carries out frequent attacks, the death tolls are often lower than in Saturday's blast.
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They know the triple-digit death tolls that sometimes come, even when their forecasts are tragically accurate.
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Sterile numbers can easily obscure the human lives behind reported death tolls from war, drone strikes, and terrorism.
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As the user makes the journey southeast, the death tolls visibly increase and the environments become more sprawling.
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Diosdado Cabello, the ruling Socialist Party's deputy head, accused the opposition of fabricating death tolls from police raids.
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Misinformation online about the coronavirus has been rampant, with posts inflating death tolls and infected counts going viral.
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Saudi Arabia has said 769 people were killed but has not explained the discrepancy in the death tolls.
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Coronavirus: Here's what to knowRead live updates about case totals, death tolls, and new developments around the world.
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That's more than the death tolls from firearm homicides, HIV, and skin cancer in the US each year.
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An earlier version of this article transposed the death tolls in two crashes involving Boeing's 737 Max jets.
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The death tolls, however, have generally been far smaller: rarely more than a handful of civilian or security personnel.
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The final death tolls in El Paso and Dayton were not even established when the chorus of recriminations began.
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Officials said the final death tolls remained uncertain from the carnage in the morning rush hour, around 8 a.m.
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Rather, he's signaling to Republicans that to accept the nonpartisan death tolls is to side with Democrats over him.
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The problem with discrepancies in how storm-related death tolls are calculated gained attention after Hurricane Maria last year.
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Health authorities officially around the world typically release new infection and death tolls at the end of each day.
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Iran and Italy have the highest death tolls of any country outside of mainland China, where the outbreak originated.
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The Islamic Republic has one of the world's worst death tolls outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak.
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Iran and Italy have the highest death tolls outside China, where over 3,000 people have died from the disease.
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We cannot turn the tide against these global measles outbreaks — and the rising, needless death tolls — without global cooperation.
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Reported death tolls varied on Thursday: The AP reported at least 20, while CNN put the figure at 16.
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That's reflected in death tolls; as of 2018, the conflict in Afghanistan has killed 2,297 American men and 50 women.
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It was only after we had irrefutable evidence of sickness and death tolls that we got rid of these hazards.
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So can you imagine what it does right now when you're listening to reports of "death tolls" every few minutes?
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History is filled with many accounts of devastating and deadly volcanic eruptions, though the death tolls are usually more modest.
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It was not the worst noncombat incident in American naval history; there were several other incidents with higher death tolls.
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They're accusing GOP leaders of sitting idly by out of fear of the gun lobby while the death tolls mount.
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The NGO has called the detention facility a "place of death" because of its poor conditions and high prisoner death tolls.
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Human rights groups have reported much higher death tolls, although Duterte and his officials have questioned the accuracy of those reports.
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Death tolls in Iraq's Shiite-dominated south from Friday's violence continued to rise on Saturday as some of the wounded died.
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The group usually gives far lower numbers of casualties on its side and much higher death tolls for the security forces.
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Were Yemen to tip into famine, something that the Obama administration worked hard to avoid, we could see staggering death tolls.
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Because countries' case totals and death tolls are constantly changing, their death rates are not static — nor is the global rate.
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The scientists then tried to ascertain which hypothetical—emphasis on hypothetical— circumstances could have led to those rapidly rising death tolls.
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As a result, suicides — the majority of which are committed by women — outstrip the annual combat and homicide death tolls combined.
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The number of death tolls and injuries continues to rise amid the political protests in Venezuela against President Nicolas Maduro's social government.
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In total, those had death tolls that run much higher than the several hundred killed by militants in Europe since 9/11.
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Last week, police in the Philippines also defended the country's ongoing war on drugs and accused international media of overstating death tolls.
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President Rodrigo Duterte's administration has challenged activists' death tolls of the three-year-old drug war that rise as high as 23,2017.
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Opposition sources give higher death tolls in the besieged rebel-held sector, under attack from bombing described as unprecedented in its ferocity.
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The U.K. is entering its second week of national lockdown, while other European countries have endured longer restrictions amid rising death tolls.
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While the large death tolls attracted much of the attention, the killings inflicted a mental and physical toll on dozens of others.
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Death tolls are hard to come by, but the outbreak took the life of something like 220 or 8 eight million victims.
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The military said 138 militants had been killed, and the death tolls for security personnel and civilians stood at 39 and 20, respectively.
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Rise in death tolls At least 85 people have been killed in the past 72 days in clashes between protesters and security forces.
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Media outlets, including NBC, were able to publish death tolls, the attacker's name and the fact that it had been a suicide bombing.
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A MAN-MADE DISASTER The divergent death tolls illuminate key differences between the two biblical floods and their responses from emergency management officials.
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"How can the coalition avoid inflicting high civilian death tolls in the future without accounting for what went wrong in Raqqa," she said.
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And the panic didn't even come until months later when the death tolls came out and they realized that thousands of people died.
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Among them was a July 2016 order requiring the government to issue annual public reports on the civilian death tolls in those areas.
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Those three countries, all members of the EU, each announced their highest single-day death tolls to date from the virus on Sunday.
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Italy and Spain are the two countries which, as of March 31, have the highest death tolls in the world from the virus.
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Experts said all of them most likely played a role in keeping the death tolls lower than expected in the last few weeks.
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Whether scrolling through social media or flipping through channels, reports about death tolls and the speed at which coronavirus is spreading are everywhere.
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The top six's gun death tolls for 2016: Brazil was 43,200, the US 37,603, Mexico 15,400, Colombia 13,300, Venezuela 12,800, and Guatemala 5,090.
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While the definition of a crisis is highly debatable, the extent of other problems with wider reach and much higher death tolls is not.
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Mon Mothma's sober toga wasn't as intricate or bank-breaking, but fellow con-goers only wanted to talk to you about Bothan death tolls.
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The feckless American response to the 2013 Ghouta attacks prolonged and intensified the Syrian civil war, needlessly raising both death tolls and refugee flows.
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Their examples show that the added pain on multiple continents — the lack of tests, crowded hospitals, widespread fear, and mounting death tolls — wasn't necessary.
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Italy and Spain have had a similarly brutal outbreak of the coronavirus, and have the highest and second-highest death tolls in the world.
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Volcanoes by the numbers From volcano death tolls to the temperature of molten lava, here's a look at some of the interesting statistics about volcanoes.
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The Syrian Red Crescent said the head of one of its local offices and "around 20 civilians" had been killed, although other death tolls differed.
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If you don't watch Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead, you probably at least know that the ubiquitous shows feature unusually high death tolls.
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The central answer is that the high death tolls in urban communities of color have proved to be socially and politically acceptable to mainstream America.
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Africa Command has disclosed strikes and estimated death tolls in a series of terse news releases, earning scant attention from Congress or the news media.
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In the case of Covid-19, responding to those models may yet be the difference between global death tolls in the thousands or the millions.
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Printed in red and green, it shows the death tolls of different American wars and conflicts, creating a harrowing picture of the country's violent history.
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SOHR's director, Rami Abdulrahman, said it arrived at the number by adding up death tolls provided by sources in several Syrian jails and security agencies.
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Last year's list of fatalities caused by hostile action surpassed the death tolls of 28500, when 6900 service members died, and 2628, when 28503 died.
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International support: Hamas has sought to increase international pressure on Israel, particularly after several eruptions of Israeli-Palestinian conflict that have ended with significant death tolls.
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It killed millions of people in the 20th century, in a series of devastating epidemics as well as the slower, persistent death tolls of endemic disease.
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Certainly, in terms of annual fatal shootings, the staggering death tolls in Chicago and Baltimore suggest a national crisis that is ignored for largely political reasons.
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The death tolls could hurt the morale of the troops and police as well as the government's efforts to recruit for the roughly 330,000-member force.
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You especially cannot compare annual death tolls, since we don't know what this new virus's is, since it's only existed in humans for two months. Sheesh.
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If they're confirmed, they would mark some of the biggest death tolls from airstrikes in Iraq since the US launched an invasion of the country in 2003.
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Study: Experiments back up the claim But the researchers said they didn't just analyze death tolls from actual hurricanes; they also conducted experiments to test their hypothesis.
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Manila, Philippines (CNN)Police in the Philippines defended the country's ongoing and deadly war on drugs Tuesday as they accused the international media of overstating death tolls.
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The Observatory's director, Rami Abdulrahman, said it had arrived at the number by adding up death tolls provided by sources in several Syrian jails and security agencies.
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Hurricane Sandy and Katrina's death tolls and economic losses of $50 billion and $85033 billion respectively are grim reminders of the human cost of poor mitigation policies.
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Though nothing new, the frequency of such public mass shootings appears to have accelerated over the past five years, along with larger and more tragic death tolls.
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Countries' death rates have changed over timeBecause countries' case totals and death tolls are constantly changing as the coronavirus outbreak evolves, their death rates are not static.
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The death tolls are further exacerbated by torture, denial of adequate medical care and high incidence of work accidents, said a 2014 United Nations report on North Korea.
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But there's reason to believe we may see a rising tide of mass shootings in aggregate, some of them with escalated death tolls, just in time for summer.
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There are no state or federal guidelines in the US for calculating storm death tolls for the medical examiners usually responsible for determining what constitutes a storm-related death.
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In letters to members of Congress he also repeatedly said that local authorities are the ones who determine death tolls, and that FEMA plays no role in counting deaths.
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Shaking from earthquakes can cause landslides, sending homes and construction tumbling into valleys, resulting in higher damages and death tolls compared with flatter parts of the world, Weston said.
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The numbers are staggering, even for those following the steady news accounts of weekends ending with dozens of shootings and monthly death tolls that hadn't been seen in years.
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But even these Category 5 storms' death tolls don't stand up to the catastrophic loss of life from such storms as Hurricane Katrina, which FEMA estimates killed 1,833 people.
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This could mean avoiding the onslaught of opinions on Twitter, the rising death tolls in news stories, or the texts from friends and family members that trigger anxious thoughts.
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In its airstrikes in Syria, Israel has made efforts to target weapons and not people, assuming high death tolls could put pressure on Iran and its allies to retaliate.
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READ: Coronavirus is now a pandemic in all but name While infection rates and death tolls in China have slowed, the virus is continuing to spread around the globe.
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Alarmed by the daily death tolls and tales of systemic abuse, I spent a weekend on the front lines with some of the journalists who track the mass death.
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Officials said Thursday they hope the academic review will help other governments, and Puerto Rico, better assess death tolls after future storms, and ultimately could help to prevent deaths.
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The lists shrank dramatically in the following weeks as people informed authorities they were safe, with the final death tolls for the hurricanes standing at 52 and 60, respectively.
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And taking away health insurance could lead to as many as 20143,22014 deaths — more than the death tolls from firearm homicides, HIV, and skin cancer in the US each year.
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Typhoons used to kill many people in China but the government now enforces evacuations and makes preparations well in advance meaning death tolls in recent years have been much lower.
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He said Bangladesh over decades had managed to bring down once sky-high death tolls from cyclones and flooding, through measures such as better early warning systems and protective structures.
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In June 2016, the 49 fatalities in the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando represented one of the highest death tolls in a single mass shooting in recent United States history.
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Headlines from Yemen splash death tolls from airstrikes, warnings of a man-made widespread famine, and the collapse of a country caught up in the Iranian-Saudi Arabian regional war.
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If confirmed, the series of airstrikes would rank among the highest civilian death tolls in an American air mission since the United States went to war in Iraq in 2003.
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She took information regarding underreported civilian death tolls, detainee abuse, and prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay, and, through WikiLeaks in conjunction with mainstream news organizations, provided that information to the world.
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Death tolls in the 50s and 60s were in the hundreds, but the institute notes that these figures only capture officially recorded deaths, and the real number is probably significantly higher.
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The numbers released Sunday are staggering, even for those following the steady news accounts of weekends ending with dozens of shootings and monthly death tolls that hadn't been seen in years.
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But heads finally turned when the death tolls and shooting rates in the first three months of 2016 shot past shot past the carnage from the same period the previous year.
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On the one hand, social-distancing measures can minimize contagion and death tolls, but a deep economic depression will sap the government revenues that pay for public health services and utilities.
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All the evidence of the virus's advance, seen in rising death tolls and infection figures, suggests the situation is getting worse and that normal life could be weeks or months away.
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This is the highest death toll from overdoses recorded in any single year in US history — surpassing the highest-ever single-year death tolls from guns, car crashes, or HIV/AIDS.
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Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) announced a bill that would develop a federal standard for how state and local governments should calculate death tolls after a major disaster (there currently is none).
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Here's a compelling way to visualize which countries and states are slowing the spread of the coronavirus: Our colleagues on The Upshot charted the trajectories of death tolls around the world.
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"Unfortunately this region, especially the delta area, has produced the highest death tolls from tropical cyclones on the planet," said Derrick Herndon, a storm researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Countries' death rates change over timeBecause countries' case totals and death tolls are constantly changing as the coronavirus outbreak evolves, their death rates are not static — nor is the global rate.
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Human rights groups and academic experts have raised questions about high death tolls in clashes between the security forces and gunmen suspected of being gang members, citing instances of summary executions.
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The genesis of the new facility was the slow international response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014, when it took months to muster meaningful funds for affected countries as death tolls mounted.
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Retreating Germans destroyed many of the records of these murders at the end of World War II as Soviet armies closed in on Berlin, and scholars have struggled to estimate death tolls.
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There are currently no state or federal guidelines in the US for calculating storm death tolls, so local medical examiners and state health officials normally decide which deaths count as storm-related.
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The heavy violence of the preceding several weeks has slowed down, with reported death tolls lower this past week, even as fighting remained widespread, occurring in 13 of the country's 30 provinces.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Technical hitches limited the death tolls in three suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia but the apparent coordination of the blasts suggests jihadis have the tools to sustain their bombing campaign.
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The TV report said security forces clashed with "rioters armed with semi-heavy weapons" in Mahshar, in Iran's oil-rich southwest province of Khuzestan, which suffered one of the highest death tolls.
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U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said the U.N. mission in Sudan had faced numerous challenges accessing affected areas but was doing all it could to establish death tolls and other human rights violations.
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"Gathering data, including death tolls, during and after a catastrophe is often difficult but researchers have developed a number of approaches over the years," Samantha Montano, a disaster expert and writer, tells Vox.
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The governor of the province that includes Lombok, the military, the national search and rescue agency and regent of North Lombok issued different death tolls on Wednesday that ranged from 226 to 381.
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To understand the future effects of extreme weather, the researchers combined projections on climate change and population growth with 2,300 records from 1981 to 2010 that identified disasters and death tolls across countries.
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Of the many cities suffering high death tolls, it is Dundee on Scotland's east coast that has attracted most attention because statistically, it has the highest per capita drug death rate in Europe.
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READ: British doctors are begging the government to test them for the coronavirus Shortages have also been an issue in Spain and France, which have the highest death tolls in Europe outside Italy.
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The 2000,22014 drug overdose deaths in 403 were higher than the annual death tolls of any previous drug crisis, from the crack cocaine epidemic of the 240s and '22014s to past heroin epidemics.
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"Gathering data, including death tolls, during and after a catastrophe is often difficult, but researchers have developed a number of approaches over the years," Samantha Montano, a disaster expert and writer, told Vox.
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As the coronavirus has spread around the world, people have looked to data — case counts, death tolls, tallies of people tested — to help predict the outbreak's trajectory, plan responses, and make policy decisions.
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While the average outcome of the COVID-19 epidemic may be "only" tens of thousands of deaths, there are credible estimates that the death tolls in this country could be in the millions.
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Part of the rising pressure: Two of the top five deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history — in Las Vegas and Texas — happened in 2017, and death tolls from mass shootings are rising. Sen.
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The number of deaths reported by Sunday was below the final death tolls in previous elections in Africa's most populous country, but in the past most unrest has taken place after results were announced.
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On how it feels to hear the Trump administration deny the staggering death tolls estimated for Puerto Rico: Andrés: I think it shows the total lack of empathy of this leader that we have.
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The National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, for example, pointed to two past attacks as examples of previous massacres with higher death tolls than the Las Vegas shooting.
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Even when officials wish to follow the guidance, tallying death tolls involves a tangle of agencies that vary from state to state and ultimately rests on the expertise of thousands of individual death certifiers.
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But as larger death tolls in Syria receive less attention — airstrikes on marketplaces happen with some regularity — he said he wondered what level of violence it would take to shock the world into action.
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While he gave no breakdown of that number, previous government estimates put security force death tolls at 5,000 in 2015 and nearly 7,000 in 2016; after that, the Afghan government began classifying casualty totals.
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Double-digit death tolls are becoming routine, including a bloody five-day stretch in late February in which the military disclosed that it had killed 35, 20 and 26 people in three separate attacks.
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Related: US Citizen Defects from al Shabaab as Group Contends with Competing Islamic State Al Shabaab often cites higher figures for death tolls than those given by officials, who usually play down the numbers.
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The data released on Sunday is staggering, even for those who followed the steady news accounts of weekends ending with dozens of shootings and monthly death tolls that had not been seen in years.
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Families of those who died in the aftermath of the storm are eligible to have some funeral expenses covered by the US government, and higher death tolls can also drive more disaster aid. 3.
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Those death tolls pale in comparison to the more than 60,000 Australians who died during World War I, and the 39,000 killed in World War II — conflicts that were formative moments in Australia's history.
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Attacks on the list that had high death tolls were given blanket coverage, such as the Brussels bombings in March, the San Bernadino, California, shootings in December 2015, and the Paris attacks in November 2015.
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But a study showed the federal response to Puerto Rico was far less than the responses to hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which struck Texas and Florida the same year and had much lower death tolls.
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While the government does not release death tolls, figures for a couple of months this year suggest a significant increase in fatalities in the security forces over last year's total, which was estimated at 6,000.
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Baghdad Bureau began as an experimental multimedia platform for the voices of Iraqis — a deliberate contrast to the drumbeat of print headlines blaring death tolls — and a place where correspondents could empty their overflowing notebooks.
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With at least 1,634 lives lost as of Friday night - also a record daily increase - the United States ranked sixth in national death tolls from the pandemic, according to a Reuters tabulation of official data.
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Unlike Hindu-Muslim riots, which have become less frequent in recent decades, lynchings are not counted systematically in India, nor are the death tolls dramatic enough to register to most Indians as a national crisis.
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Firefighters in the United States have learned from past fire attacks and developed robust methods to keep fires in check, which is why despite the massive fires we're seeing, the death tolls have remained relatively low.
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The death tolls from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017 and Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana in 85033 remind us that the journey to achieving the best storm preparedness and disaster response is a long one.
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We could face yet another week of eerily strategic or terrifyingly mysterious shootings with high death tolls at any moment—a fact that the nation needs to reckon with in considering the future of gun policy.
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There were also differences in the slope of the lines at the start, with the death tolls in the US and particularly in South Korea rising more slowly than in most of the other countries shown.
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The Case and Deaton study focused on the age range 45 to 54, while the Times analysis found rising death tolls among all age groups up to 65, with the rate among younger adults rising fastest.
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Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and Turkey all suffered their worst death tolls from terrorism in a single year since 1413, according to the index which is produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) think-tank.
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In recommending punishment for dozens of officials, the State Council appeared to be trying to appease the Chinese public, which has often been angered by official negligence that has led to catastrophic accidents with high death tolls.
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I've been exhausted, despondent about the death tolls, worried about doctors and nurses, supermarket clerks, delivery workers, and all those at the frontlines, but my starter brings me joy and excitement when I see it bubbling away.
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While mass shootings involving high-powered guns and high death tolls have claimed an outsize portion of the nation's collective grief — and its headlines — street shootings like the one that killed Delmonte Johnson are far more common.
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PUL-I-KUMRI, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents killed so many Afghan security forces in 2016, an average of 22 a day, that by the following year the Afghan and American governments decided to keep battlefield death tolls secret.
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Nydia Velázquez called Wednesday for a commission to investigate Hurricane Maria death tolls, after a report published last week in a prestigious medical journal revealed an estimated 4,645 people died as a result of the disaster last year.
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National leaders have one eye squarely on the calendar and are trying to calculate when they are going to have to tell people to get back to work, even if that will reignite infections and high death tolls.
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Even in the best of circumstances, death tolls following natural disasters are difficult to measure precisely, and Burnham noted that if you went back and performed the same study today, you would most likely get a different number.
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Airstrikes during the Obama administration also led to high civilian death tolls, most notably in an operation last year in Manbij, a town in northern Syria near the Turkish border that was being held by Islamic State militants.
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The March 17 airstrikes — which Iraqis said had led to the deaths of possibly 200 people — could have produced among the highest civilian death tolls in an American air mission since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.
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What Trump didn't seem to grasp is that official death tolls include not only people who died directly as a result of the storm but also indirect deaths due to factors like not being able to obtain medical care.
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While it has been hard to confirm death tolls and the impact on residents, any clear evidence of escalating violence could be damaging to Sassou Nguesso's ruling party, the Congolese Party of Labour, ahead of legislative elections next month.
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The President has matched those private feelings with public messaging, downplaying the seriousness of the virus by comparing it to flu death tolls and blaming the market losses on the news media as well as Russia and Saudi Arabia.
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These extreme bouts of heat—too routine now to be dubbed "heat waves"—claimed annual death tolls of thousands in many countries, while wildfires courted the specter of mass famine by burning up billions of dollars' worth of cropland.
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Given that the outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, is still growing and evolving, and countries' case totals and death tolls are constantly changing, countries' death rates are not static and will continue to fluctuate.
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With news of rising death tolls and crashing stock markets, and declarations from top officials that the US is unprepared to handle the pending global pandemic, it's unsurprising that Americans are worried, if not downright panicked, about the coronavirus.
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What Trump doesn't seem to grasp is that official death tolls include not only people who died directly as a result of the storm but also indirect deaths due to factors like not being able to obtain medical care.
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Trump was referring to the latest hurricane death estimates, released last month by researchers at George Washington University, which showed that 2,975 people likely died directly and indirectly from the storm (both types of deaths are included in official death tolls).
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"How you make a judgment on these issues is really important to our vote as to whether to support you or not because I don't want to go back to those death tolls," Feinstein said, according to The Washington Post.
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The charts below show annual death tolls and counts of disasters recorded since 1960 in the International Disaster Database, which keeps tabs on natural events — such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and storms — and technological disasters, like ferry sinkings and plane crashes.
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The disparity in death tolls between richer and poorer countries leads some to argue that we shouldn't worry about either the increasing risks due to climate change, or the increasing exposure to natural hazards, whether in the United States or elsewhere.
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Surveying funeral homes likely underestimates the number of hurricane deaths, said Eric Klinenberg, director of New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge, who wrote a book that dealt with problems with death tolls following a 1995 heat wave in Chicago.
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The problem is not limited to the city; in 2015, according to a World Health Organization estimate, almost 60,000 Pakistanis died from the high level of fine particles in the air, one of the world's highest death tolls from air pollution.
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Thanks in part to better emergency planning and response, the immediate death tolls from Harvey and Irma seem to be far lower than those of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, which took some 22009,240 and 2000 lives in the US respectively.
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Though the highest death tolls have previously been identified in China, where the virus originated in December, the country identified its lowest number of new infections in a single day since January, which indicates the outbreak in the country is slowing.
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From US President Donald Trump's desire to not telegraph his punches to the enemy, to the Afghan government's decision to classify the injury and death tolls of their security forces, much of this war is now hidden behind a veil.
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Higher death tolls also tend to draw more attention from Congress and the public, so the accuracy of the figure matters a great deal in terms of disaster response, said Redlener, who heads the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia.
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On Monday, a US senator and a local coroner held a depressingly banal press conference on the opioid crisis in Ohio, where death tolls have spiked in part due to hard drugs like heroin being laced with the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl.
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In 2017, Afghan and American military authorities began to keep battlefield death tolls secret, and senior Afghan officials issued orders that provincial, district and military functionaries should not release casualty information, but should refer queries to the central government in Kabul, the capital.
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But the death tolls in individual attacks in the West have remained relatively modest, partly because the assailants have learned that they do not need anthrax or dirty bombs to disrupt capitals, terrify tourists, rivet the attention of governments and impress potential recruits.
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The number of deaths in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, surged to at least 212 on Friday as information trickled in from remote areas previously cut off by the storm, according to a Reuters tally of death tolls given by officials.
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And while a smaller percent of households own guns, the country has more of them, and they are deadlier: Semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15 have become the weapon of choice in the largest recent mass killings, leading to death tolls in the dozens.
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In the first study of its kind, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has assessed the death tolls of all major tropical cyclones, tornadoes, lightning and hailstorms to have occurred since 1873, when records began, to identify those which resulted in the greatest loss of life.
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Those regions to have been worst hit over the past 2463 years include Africa and Asia-Pacific, where death tolls are estimated to have reached as high as 500,000 in one event, though the effects of extreme weather have been undiscriminating to all regions.
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But a look at how death tolls were tallied after Hurricane Florence last month showed that what qualified as a storm-related death varied not only state to state and county to county, but even based on who was filling out a death certificate.
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Smoking might affect death tolls, too, and smoking is more common in Europe than in the US. The lack of testing in the US until recently means reported cases per capita are a little further behind Italy's than the raw confirmed case numbers are.
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The high death tolls from pollution are part of the puzzle developing countries face as they try to lift their populations out of poverty, even as efforts to fight climate change discourage the use of the dirty energy sources that drove the Industrial Revolution.
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A week ago, the Taliban broke a longstanding truce and attacked Jaghori from three directions in what appears to be a determined effort to take the district, as the insurgents have done elsewhere with increasing frequency, inflicting steadily rising death tolls on government forces.
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The wall panel precedes the death tolls from all the included attacks with a quote from Yuval Noah Hari: In terrorism fear is the main story, and there is an astounding disproportion between the actual strength of the terrorists and the fear they manage to inspire.
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But when a fire broke out Friday night and swept through the space, claiming the lives of at least 36 people — one of the worst fire death tolls in Oakland's history — many are questioning the safety surrounding those kinds of parties and just who is responsible.
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"A risk off theme continues due to the rising infection and death tolls from the coronavirus in China and that is also affecting the Chinese currency which is trading at new lows for the year," said John Marley at FX risk management specialist Smart Currency Business.
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There is no publicly available official accounting because the administration has "made little to no information public on the approximate number, location or death tolls of lethal drone strikes or on which agency is responsible for which strikes," the Stimson panel concluded, giving Mr. Obama an "F" on releasing information.
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"How death tolls are tallied shapes the public opinions of how big or the severity of the disaster and as such it will shape the kind of federal response that the government will execute," said Representative Nydia M. Velázquez, Democrat of New York, who introduced the bill in the House.
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The low potency of these attacks, with single-digit death tolls, combined with the fact that many of the perpetrators had a history of mental illness, prompted analysts and officials to conclude that the Islamic State remained a distant second to Al Qaeda in its ability to carry out attacks on Western soil.
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According to the best estimates we have, the plan to take away the health insurance of 24 million people, as the GOP would do, would lead to more than 24,000 additional deaths in the US annually — more than the death tolls from firearm homicides, HIV, and skin cancer in the US each year.
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A Monday report from the New York Times, as well as previous dispatches from the Washington Post and Reuters, concluded that the pace of the violence in eastern Ukraine's contested Donbas region has escalated since mid-February, with death tolls rivaling those of last September — just before a partial truce took hold.
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As reported by the New York Times, the lawsuit filed in federal court last Friday seeks billions of dollars in restitution from corporations that inundated the market with prescription opioids, and consists of almost 2,000 individual cases brought by cities, counties, and Native American tribes around the country where opioid addiction levied heavy death tolls.
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This failure to modernize streets has come to the fore in Toronto, where the deaths of four cyclists and 1900 pedestrians in the first half of 225 have sparked outrage among the city's bike community, already exasperated from years of fighting over bike lanes, mounting death tolls, and broken promises to reform road safety.
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To wit, although not as notorious as the Piketon, Ohio, massacre or the Hesston, Kansas, or Kalamazoo, Michigan, mass shooting sprees, a domestic incident-turned-mass shooting on February 23 in Phoenix, Arizona, and another on January 27 in Chesapeake, Virginia, had two of the largest mass shooting death tolls this year—four and five dead respectively.
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But if 2000 in 12 people age 70-79 who get the virus and 1 in 7 people age 80 or older who get the virus die, and the virus spreads to 13%, 40% or 70% of the population, we're talking massive death tolls, the likes of which we have never seen before in our lives.
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How many the fight against ISIS in Mosul has killed in about a month How many the fight against ISIS in Mosul has killed in about a month The United Nations urged Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces to try harder to spare civilian lives on Tuesday, after announcing new civilian death tolls in the battle to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State.
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There were: 4chan hoaxers trying, once again, to trick people into thinking the shooter was a comedian named Sam Hyde; speculation the shooter was motivated by YouTube censoring political content; speculation it was religiously motivated; photos of supposed shooters in MAGA hats; unconfirmed images of potential victims and inaccurate death tolls; and numerous conflicting reports that the shooter was female, then male, then female again.
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"At this point, what is sure to happen next is we need to understand each victim's cause of death, age, race and gender and if possible the location where the death occurred that way you can analyze where the most vulnerable population is," said John Mutter, a professor of earth sciences and public affairs at Columbia University who studied disaster death tolls after Hurricane Katrina.
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