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LaGuardia crash kills two after Air Canada jet hits vehicle

Bloomberg News, Published on 23/03/2026

» An Air Canada Express plane with 76 people aboard collided with a fire truck shortly after landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, killing the two pilots.

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Air Canada plane hits vehicle at New York’s LaGuardia Airport

Bloomberg, Published on 23/03/2026

» An Air Canada Express flight collided with a vehicle shortly after landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, the latest in a series of incidents that have put aviation safety in the spotlight. 

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Hope fades in search for missing after Brazil rains kill 46

AFP, Published on 26/02/2026

» UBá (BRAZIL) - Despair hung over two cities in southeastern Brazil on Wednesday as rescuers and residents searched for 21 people missing after torrential rains unleashed flooding and landslides that killed at least 46.

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Rescuers search for missing after deluge kills 30 in Brazil

AFP, Published on 25/02/2026

» JUIZ DE FORA (BRAZIL) - Three firemen pulled a man's body from the mud amidst the rubble of houses swept away in a landslide in southeastern Brazil, where 30 people died and 39 were still missing on Tuesday after torrential rains.

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Nasa delivers harsh assessment of botched Boeing Starliner test flight

AFP, Published on 20/02/2026

» WASHINGTON — The  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) on Thursday blamed what it called engineering vulnerabilities in Boeing's Starliner spacecraft along with internal agency mistakes in a sharply critical report assessing a botched mission that left two astronauts stranded in space.

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US to scrap legal cornerstone of climate regulations this week

AFP, Published on 11/02/2026

» WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - President Donald Trump's administration is set to finalize on Thursday its repeal of a foundational scientific determination that underpins the US government's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

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Fifteen dead, 28 missing as ferry sinks in southern Philippines

AFP, Published on 26/01/2026

» MANILA - A ferry with more than 350 people onboard sank Monday morning in the southern Philippines, leaving at least 15 dead and 28 still missing, the coast guard said.

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Climate change fuels disasters, but deaths don't add up

AFP, Published on 21/01/2026

» PARIS (FRANCE) - Climate change is turbocharging heatwaves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events become for people in their path?

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North Korea's Kim sacks vice premier, rails against 'incompetence'

AFP, Published on 20/01/2026

» SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired his vice premier and railed against "incompetent" officials in a rare and very public broadside against apparatchiks at the opening of a critical factory, state media said Tuesday.

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Numerous teenagers among the dead identified in Swiss bar blaze, police say

Reuters, Published on 04/01/2026

» ZURICH: ‌Teenagers as young as 14 and 15 years ​old were among those who died in the bar fire on New Year's Eve that killed 40 people in Switzerland, police said on Sunday, as the Pope passed on his sympathies to the victims and their families.