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Powerful typhoon causes injuries, damage in S. Korea
Associated Press, Published on 23/09/2019
» SEOUL, South Korea: A powerful typhoon battered southern South Korea, injuring 26 people and knocking out power to about 27,790 houses, officials said Monday.
Typhoon kills 5 in North Korea, 3 in South Korea
Associated Press, Published on 08/09/2019
» SEOUL, South Korea: One of the most powerful typhoons to ever hit the Korean Peninsula has left five people dead and three injured in North Korea, state media reported Sunday, in its first public announcement of casualties since the storm made landfall in the country a day earlier.
Car crash in Cairo kills 19
Associated Press, Published on 05/08/2019
» CAIRO: A multiple-car crash on a Cairo street in front of Egypt's main cancer hospital set off an explosion that triggered a fire outside the building, killing a total of 19 people, authorities said Monday.
France: 'Red scarves' protest against 'yellow vests'
Associated Press, Published on 28/01/2019
» PARIS: Some 10,000 people wearing red scarves marched through Paris on Sunday to protest acts of violence and vandalism on the sidelines of anti-government demonstrations by the largely peaceful yellow vest movement.
Venice flooded by mega tide as storms buffet Italy
Associated Press, Published on 30/10/2018
» MILAN, Italy: Venice was inundated by an exceptionally high tide on Monday, with three-quarters of the famed lagoon city under water as large swathes of Italy experienced flooding and winds that toppled trees and other objects, killing six people.
Italy looks to place blame for bridge collapse that killed 39
Associated Press, Published on 16/08/2018
» GENOA, Italy: As more bodies were pulled from a mountain of jagged concrete and twisted steel left by a highway bridge collapse that killed 39, prosecutors focused on possible design flaws and past maintenance of the heavily used span, and politicians squabbled over blame.
Paris hostages freed, suspect arrested after 4 hours
Associated Press, Published on 13/06/2018
» PARIS: A four-hour hostage standoff in central Paris ended with police moving in, arresting the armed suspect and freeing the people held in a ground-floor office, France's interior minister announced late Tuesday.
Kabul suicide bomber kills 57 at voting centre
Associated Press, Published on 23/04/2018
» KABUL: An Islamic State suicide bomber carried out an attack at a voter registration centre in the capital Kabul on Sunday, killing 57 people and wounding more than 100 others, said officials form the Afghan interior and public health ministries.
Cambodia deports 89 'nude photo online scammers' to China
Associated Press, Published on 11/04/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia on Wednesday deported nearly 100 Chinese citizens accused of defrauding people in China in an internet scam, a senior Cambodian Interior Ministry official said.
Merkel clinches German coalition deal
Associated Press, Published on 08/02/2018
» BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel finally reached a deal Wednesday to form a new German coalition government, handing the powerful finance ministry to the country's main centre-left party in an agreement aimed at ending months of political gridlock.