Children from the school were among the dead, but several students were pulled out alive from under a collapsed wall and other heaps of mangled debris.

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Americans, Britons and Japanese are among the dead, while nationals from France, Norway, Malaysia, the Philippines and Romania are listed as dead or missing.

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Among the dead were nine tourists from Hong Kong, four Japanese, two French, a Belgian and a second Briton, according to Egyptian officials, although there were conflicting reports on the nationality of the 19th victim.

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Captain Francis Umtope(ph), a United Nations peacekeeper from Ghana who assisted in the recovery operation, said he saw no signs of Hezbollah among the dead here.

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Among the dead were an eight-year-old boy, Martin Richard, from Boston.

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She and Obama are now dead even at 47 percent among likely Democrats, according the newly released numbers from Gallup.

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What was initially thought to be a barbed arrowhead found among the dead king's vertebrae turned out instead to be a Roman nail, disturbed from an earlier level of excavation.

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It rose from collaboration among Koetsu, the painter Sotatsu, a suitably skilled papermaker, and not least the dead hand of the poet whose waka, or classic verses, Koetsu was transcribing.

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