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SF Gate
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Investigators examined the scorched hull of a jetliner Wednesday to determine what caused the plane to veer off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 29 people, officials said.
Sudan Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Abdel Hafez Abdel Rahim..
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SF Gate
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U.N. peacekeepers and rescue workers searched for bodies Wednesday in the smoldering rubble after a Congolese jetliner careened off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 100 on the ground.
Airline officials s..
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CNN
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At least 500 people have been killed and thousands made homeless after a powerful tropical cyclone slammed into the southern coastal region of Bangladesh late Thursday, local government officials said Friday. Local government officials across the region t..
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CNN
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A section of a bridge under construction in southern Vietnam collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 52 workers and injuring 97 others, officials said. The bridge was being built across the Hau River, a branch of the Mekong River, in the southern city of Ca..
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BBC News
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Peruvian officials say they have run out of tents and urgently need at least 40,000 more to house victims of the devastating earthquake two weeks ago.
Aid agencies said many survivors in the Ica region were living on the streets in unhygienic condition..
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CNN
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A 7.9-magnitude earthquake centered off Peru's coast killed at least 337 people and left another 1,350 hurt, the nation's Health Ministry said Thursday. The two-minute quake struck Wednesday evening and was followed by a tiny, 1-foot tsunami and strong af..
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CNN
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A jetliner crashed and exploded into flames at Brazil's busiest airport on Tuesday night, killing at least 200 people, local rescue workers said. As investigators prepared to open a probe into the cause of the crash of the TAM Airlines Airbus A320, questi..
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FOX News
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A Philippine passenger ferry with 237 people on board caught fire south of Manila Sunday, killing at least two people, coast guard officials said.
Passengers have been rescued by passing vessels, but authorities are not yet certain if all have been sav..
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FOX News
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Nicaraguan police seized 6,000 tubes of a Chinese-made toothpaste suspected of containing a chemical that killed at least 51 people in nearby Panama last year, the health minister said Sunday.
All U.S. imports of Chinese toothpaste were halted last wee..
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SF Gate
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A bone-rattling undersea earthquake sparked a tsunami that sent 10-foot-high waves crashing into parts of the Solomon Islands on Monday, wiping out one village and killing at least 13 people. The death toll was expected to rise.
Large waves struck the..
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CNN
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At least 60 people were killed after a boat capsized off the coast of Guinea, state television in the West African country said Thursday.
It said a "pirogue", or open fishing boat, with 120 people on board had capsized. "Thirty-six people survived," th..
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CNN
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Aftershocks shook central Japan's coast on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake killed at least one person and injured 193 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides and generated a small tsunami along the coast.
One of the aftershocks h..
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CNN
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A powerful earthquake struck Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 150 others as it damaged buildings and triggered a small tsunami along the coast, officials and media reports said.
The magnitude-6.9 quake struck at 9:42 a.m. (0042..
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CNN
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A night watchman ignored two fire alarms at a Russian old people's home where a blaze killed at least 62 people, emergency officials said.
The man only took action when he saw flames at the building, in the Kuban region of southern Russia, but staff fa..
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CNN
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At least 74 miners are dead, a number that could rise, and at least 43 are missing after a methane gas explosion Monday at a coal mine in southwestern Siberia, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
The ministry said 83 miners have been res..
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MSNBC
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A powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia on Wednesday, injuring at least three people and damaging several buildings, officials said. No tsunami was detected.
The quake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 7.6, struck under the island of Simeulu..
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BBC News
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A double bombing in Baghdad has killed at least 14 people, including the head of a US-backed armed group which fights al-Qaeda in Sunni Muslim areas.
Police say a suicide bomber struck at the entrance of the Sunni Endowment, or Waqf, office in Adhamiya..
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CNN
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At least one person has been killed in a school shooting in Finland, CNN has learned. The headmaster of the school in Tuusula, near Helsinki, is reported to have died in the attack, according to a reporter for CNN affiliate station MTV. Some media reports..
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SF Gate
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Tropical Storm Noel buffeted south Florida with high surf and winds as it swirled slowly toward the Bahamas Thursday after triggering mudslides and floods in the Caribbean that killed at least 81 people.
Forecasters warned of worsening storm conditions..
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BBC News
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At least 20 people have been killed in flooding in the Dominican Republic following torrential rains dumped by Tropical Storm Noel.
Most of the deaths were reported along the south coast, east of the capital Santo Domingo.
It is feared the death tol..
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