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Nearly 750 killed in India's record monsoon
By wire services
Published July 30, 2005
BOMBAY, India - Their faces covered with masks against the stench, rescuers found dozens more bodies in flood-ravaged Bombay neighborhoods and outlying villages Friday, pushing the death toll to 749 from record monsoon rains in India.
Three days after the deluge, the Bombay Stock Exchange reopened and mobile phone services were restored, but some neighborhoods were without electricity.
The rescuers searched Maharashtra state, battered by the deadly rains, said N. Nayar, an official at the government's emergency control room in Bombay, also called Mumbai, India's financial hub and the worst-hit area.
Most deaths were caused by collapsing walls, drownings and electrocutions, said M. Deshpande, assistant director at the control room.
U.S., N. Korea continue talks, but no progress
BEIJING - An improved atmosphere might be the most significant accomplishment as six-nation talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament stretched into their longest round Friday.
After a fourth session of one-on-one meetings between American and North Korean diplomats, they remained split over the North's demand for U.S. concessions before giving up its nuclear weapons program and its insistence on having a peaceful atomic energy project.
Talks were scheduled to resume today and no date was set for ending the meeting, which also include delegates from South Korea, Japan, China and Russia.
[Last modified July 30, 2005, 01:10:15]
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