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| UpdatedFidel Castro's ashes are laid to rest, capping nine days of official mourning when hundreds of thousands of Cubans said farewell with a combination of tears, Castro-like defiance and choruses of "I am Fidel!" ringing out across the island.
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The converted warehouse where a deadly fire ripped through a late-night dance party is known as the "Ghost ship", and is an artist workspace and illegal home for a rotating cast of residents, those who lived there or visited often say.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, fires, death, human-interest, united-states
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| UpdatedA man found injured after a single-vehicle accident is charged with murder after allegedly giving information to paramedics that leads to the discovery of a woman's body.
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| UpdatedThe number of drownings in the Australian surf has surged over the past year, with data showing men now account for almost 90 per cent of deaths on the coast.
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| UpdatedA street racer is killed after his car clips another, hits a power pole, flips and bursts into flames in Melbourne's north, Victorian police say.
Topics: death, pascoe-vale-3044, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe stabbing death of tourist Philippe Jegouzo in the Northern Territory outback was "bizarre" and "random", and there are no concerns other travellers are in danger, police say.
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Andrew Sachs, best known for his role of Manuel in Fawlty Towers, has died at the age of 86 after struggling with dementia.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, comedy-humour, comedy-film, death, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedA 20-year-old man faces life behind bars after being convicted of the one-punch death of Ipswich grandfather Lindsay Ede.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, death, goodna-4300, ipswich-4305, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedAurelie Chorier, the wife of a French tourist killed at a roadside stop in the NT outback, has left hospital.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, death, police, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedPolice are holding Melbourne man Pande Veleski in connection to the stabbing death of a French tourist in the Northern Territory outback, the ABC understands.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, death, alice-springs-0870, ti-tree-0872
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| UpdatedA man is arrested after a French tourist was stabbed to death at a rest stop in front of his wife in the Northern Territory outback.
Topics: death, murder-and-manslaughter, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedA farmer who was rescued after he became stuck inside his hay baler in Victoria's south-west for more than 24 hours dies.
Topics: death, community-and-society, accidents, mount-duneed-3216
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| UpdatedA man dies after being found with a stab wound to his neck 30 kilometres from the remote Aileron Roadhouse in the Northern Territory.
Topics: death, murder-and-manslaughter, police, ti-tree-0872, alice-springs-0870
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Gold Coast theme park Dreamworld will reopen with a special charity weekend from Saturday December 10, six weeks after the deaths of four people on a popular ride at the venue.
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| UpdatedGold Coast theme park Dreamworld will stage a special charity weekend to mark the theme park's reopening on December 10 and 11, six weeks after the deaths of four people on the venue's Thunder River Rapids ride.
Topics: death, tourism, emergency-incidents, coomera-4209
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| UpdatedThe WA coroner confirms the deaths of three men who went missing after making a raft to escape a sinking asylum seeker boat in 2013, ruling their deaths were caused by misadventure.
Topics: refugees, death, community-and-society, immigration, christmas-island-6798
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| UpdatedA coronial inquest into the workplace death of 21-year-old Ben Catanzariti in Canberra in 2012 will reopen as the search for answers continues.
Topics: courts-and-trials, workplace, death, canberra-2600, act
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Police say the death of an 83-year-old man at Reservoir, in Melbourne's north, is not suspicious, despite a decades-long feud with a neighbour.
Topics: death, community-and-society, police, reservoir-3073, melbourne-3000