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An 18-year-old was rescued Tuesday from beneath rubble in Adiyaman, Turkey, nearly 200 hours after devastating earthquakes.

A Russian newspaper called Komsomolskaya Pravda, previously noted for its staunch loyalty to the Kremlin, published an article that quickly disappeared from the site on Sunday claiming 9,861 Russian troops have been killed during the invasion of Ukraine.

Johns Hopkins University reports that the global coronavirus death toll has surpassed 6 million – with nearly 1 million deaths in the U.S.

New statistics released by India’s federal government suggest the Chinese coronavirus death toll for some states was nearly nine times greater than officially documented during a period spanning March 2020 to January 19, 2022, the Hindu reported on Sunday.

India’s Chinese coronavirus death toll over the past year and a half could be up to ten times greater than the 414,000 deaths officially reported by New Delhi, researchers at Harvard University and the Center for Global Development estimated in a study published on Tuesday.

The death toll in the Surfside Miami condo collapse has risen to 18 as 145 people remain missing, one week after the tragic event.

A crematorium in western India’s Gujurat state has been running “so long without a break” during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic that some of the metal parts of its gas and firewood furnaces “have begun to melt,” Reuters news agency reported this week.

Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York’s one-day coronavirus death toll has fallen below 100 for the first time in weeks.

The United States on Monday recorded the lowest one-day tally of novel coronavirus illness (COVID-19) fatalities in the last month.

Italy’s overall death toll from the Chinese coronavirus exceeded 17,000 on Tuesday, as another 604 people have died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Italian health officials, however, believe the nation has reached its “peak,” as confirmed cases of the coronavirus are beginning to drop.

In the last 24 hours, 950 people have died in Spain from the Chinese coronavirus, causing the nation’s overall death toll from the virus to exceed 10,000 as of Thursday.

In the last 24 hours, 889 people have died in Italy from the Chinese coronavirus, bringing the nation’s overall death toll from the virus to 10,023 as of Saturday — an increase of 9.7 percent in one day.

Italy has hit its highest daily coronavirus death toll yet; 969 people have died in the last 24 hours alone, bringing the nation’s overall death toll from the virus to 9,134 as of Friday — an increase of 11.9 percent in one day.

Iran’s senior vice president and two cabinet members tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus on Wednesday, according to the state-run Fars News Agency.

The experts are telling us an average of 3,060 America will die every day through the end of this year, and they are not saying this is a worst case scenario.

Hurricane Dorian has made landfall in Canada, leaving downed trees and additional damage in its wake, according to reports. 

The official death toll is 30 so far in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian hit the country as a devastating Category 5 storm on Sunday with winds hitting 185 miles per hour, but an official there said “thousands” of people are missing.

The death toll has risen to 25 due to alcohol laced with poisonous methanol in Costa Rica, according to reports. 

Thirteen children have died from the influenza virus this flu season, according to the latest statistics released from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

The number of dead now stands at 18 as the aftermath of Hurricane Michael is assessed. But authorities warn that there will likely be more bodies discovered as rescue workers dig through the rubble left by the storm.

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced Tuesday that he would sign an executive order revising the official death toll from last year’s Hurricane Maria to 2,975, based on numbers from a George Washington University study released earlier that day.