Mortality

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Finance

Russia detains top doctors at Siberian hospital after nine babies die

MOSCOW, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Russia has detained the chief doctor and acting head of the intensive car...

14th January, 2026

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Russia opens negligence probe after nine babies die in same Siberian hospital

MOSCOW, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Russia has opened a criminal investigation into the deaths of nine newbor...

13th January, 2026

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Soccer-Spanish keeper Ramirez, 19, dies after on-field collision

(Reuters) - Spanish fifth-division goalkeeper Raul Ramirez has died at the age of 19 following a col...

29th September, 2025

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Heatwaves in Spain caused 1,180 deaths in past two months, ministry says

MADRID (Reuters) -High temperatures caused 1,180 deaths in Spain in the past two months, a sharp inc...

14th July, 2025

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Drowning deaths in France spiked by 58% during heat wave, authorities say

PARIS (Reuters) -France's public health authority said on Friday that more than 100 people had died...

11th July, 2025

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Ireland to begin excavation of mass grave at Church-run Mother and Baby home

By Clodagh Kilcoyne TUAM, Ireland (Reuters) -A team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene exper...

7th July, 2025

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Insurer Aegon books $400 million hit from higher US mortality

By Olivier Sorgho and Dimitri Rhodes (Reuters) – Dutch insurer Aegon booked a charge of around $400...

22nd August, 2024

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England had 4,500 heat-related deaths during record-breaking 2022 – official data

England had 4,500 heat-related deaths during record-breaking 2022 – official data LONDON (Reuters) –...

22nd September, 2023

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‘The ICU is full’: medical staff on frontline of China’s COVID fight say hospitals are ‘overwhelmed’

By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) – In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing...

26th December, 2022

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COVID took 15 million lives globally, not the 5 million reported – WHO

By Jennifer Rigby (Reuters) -Almost three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as...

5th May, 2022

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Inadequate sanitation costs India the equivalent of 6.4 per cent of GDP

I nadequate sanitation causes India considerable economic losses, equivalent to 6.4 per cent of Indi...

30th December, 2010