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The Romanian Defense Ministry, for example, disclosed the number of armed forces personnel who died in 2003, as well as the causes of death (including 13 suicides, two shootings, and two combat deaths in Afghanistan).
Abdou Latif Coulibaly, the author of two books critical of Wade, received a death threat, as did Alioune Tine, the leader of a main human rights organization, Raddho.
And Pakistan’s strategy of “bleeding India to death by a thousand cuts” through insurgency and terrorism has accomplished little, while making its military an enormously powerful domestic player and spawning terror outfits (some of which have turned against their sponsors).
Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently penned an open letter to the Chinese government telling them that, because the top “cause of death of Chinese regimes in history is greed and corruption,” a free press is more likely to help than hurt.
This is largely, though not entirely, the fault of the European colonialists who, in the death throes of their own empires, created artificial states ripening for dissolution.
Determined to save Mariama’s life, I told her mother to go home and announce the death of her daughter.
Though Mariama’s illness did not move her relatives to action, her death did.
The death of more than 220 health-care workers left only 3.4 skilled health personnel for every 10,000 citizens.
Only a few months ago, in cities throughout Ukraine, our children and our parents confronted armed troops, snarling dogs, and even death.
People close to the case say that senior NTC officials were implicated in Younis’s death.
The prisoner whose release it has demanded in exchange for Goto is Sajida al-Rishawi, who faces the death penalty in Jordan for her role in hotel bombings in Amman in 2005.
Pride and a lack of imagination blind them to the danger they are in, until it is too late and they are deported to the death camps.
Then came Russia’s fomenting of, and participation in, armed separatists’ effort to take over parts of eastern Ukraine, which led directly to the downing last month of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and the death of all 298 people on board.
Indeed, over 5,000 people were killed by organized drug criminals last year, more than double the death toll in 2007.
My death does not extinguish my debt, reasons the sensible citizen.
Stopping Women’s Next Biggest KillerGENEVA – For women, the act of bringing life into this world has historically meant risking their own lives, with the real prospect of death during childbirth.
We should congratulate ourselves for nearly halving the maternal death rate since 1990.
America’s Islamic Blind SpotsNEW YORK – In the wake of the Koran-burning by troops at the United States’ Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, protests continue to escalate, and the death toll mounts.
The army forced Wilhelm into exile in the Netherlands, where, until his death in 1941, he spread venomous poison where he could: the Jews and socialists were to blame; he alone was right.
More broadly, increases in the supply of weapons funneled to rebel forces by Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and others have correlated with surges in the civilian death toll, suggesting that they cost more lives than they save – and with no evident strategic gains.
Croatia after TudjmanZAGREB: Franjo Tudjman’s death, like his life, was a bizarre parody of Marshal Tito.
Tudjman's death opens the additional question of presidential elections, which must be held within 60 days after his passing.
Croatia's course will be tested by the consequences of Tudjman's death and the forthcoming electoral rounds.
That is why the prize has invited comparisons to an Oscar lifetime achievement award that comes only when the recipient is nearing death.
Counting Iraqi CasualtiesIn times of war, accurate figures on the civilian death toll are almost always hard to come by.
Another approach estimates the total change in mortality that the war caused (including deaths due to the war’s direct and indirect effects) by calculating the change in the death rate from the pre-war period.
Typically, interviewers ask the head of the household to disclose the number and demographic characteristics of pre-war household members, whether any of the people in the pre-war household had died between the pre-war period and the time of the survey, and the date of any household member’s death.
The authors used crude death rates (CDR’s), which reflect the number of deaths per thousand people, in explaining the rise in mortality.
The end of polio should mark not just the defeat of a terrible disease, but also the beginning of a new phase in the effort to reduce childhood suffering and death, the benefits of which will be felt for generations to come.
Fortunately, this time the authorities and local communities were well-prepared: though 12 million people were affected by Phailin, the evacuation of one million people kept the death toll down to double digits.
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