Bells tolled in hilltowns across central Italy today as the first funerals got underway for victims of the country’s devastating earthquake. The Vatican granted a dispensation so a funeral Mass for most of the 275 dead could be celebrated on Good Friday. As more bodies were pulled from the rubble, some of the 28,000...
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Indonesia rocked by 7.6 magnitude quake
A series of earthquakes hit Indonesia and triggered widespread panic in the country affected worst in 2004 Tsunami. Indonesian authorities cancelled a tsunami alert issued after the first of several strong quakes early Sunday morning, but by then thousands of people had fled their homes and were thronging roads leading from the coast. A...
