Aid workers are still at great risk of being killed, and cannot operate at all in much of the south.

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They found on average a 19% difference between the highest and lowest social strata in the risk of dying in each country and about half of the difference was due to the risk of being killed by smoking.

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Tourists at a Pembrokeshire beach ran the risk of being shot and killed on the day a soldier died nearby, an inquest heard.

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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urged people planning to undertake humanitarian work in Iraq to think again, saying there was a real risk of being kidnapped or killed.

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The reality is it puts them at greater risk of being seriously injured or killed, not to mention being arrested for possessing an offensive weapon.

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