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Bahamas devastated by Hurricane Dorian
Associated Press, Published on 04/09/2019
» FREEPORT, Bahamas: Jet skis and a huge bulldozer were being used to rescue victims of Hurricane Dorian as the US Coast Guard, Britain's Royal Navy and a handful of aid groups tried to get food and medicine to survivors and take the most desperate people to safety.
Police: 7 killed, 22 injured in West Texas shooting rampage
Associated Press, Published on 02/09/2019
» ODESSA, Texas: Authorities said Sunday they still could not explain why a man with an AR-style weapon opened fire during a routine traffic stop in West Texas to begin a terrifying, 10-mile (16-kilometre) rampage that killed seven people, injured 22 others and ended with officers gunning him down outside a movie theater.
Death toll rises to 20 in China landslide
Associated Press, Published on 26/07/2019
» BEIJING: The search is continuing for about two dozen missing people as the death toll rose to 20 from a landslide in southwestern China earlier this week.
World Bank unit implicated in huge Latin America graft scandal
Associated Press, Published on 02/07/2019
» BOGOTA: A unit of the World Bank has been dragged into the edges of Latin America's biggest corruption scandal.
At least 7 killed in China's latest industrial accident
Associated Press, Published on 31/03/2019
» BEIJING: At least seven people were killed and five injured on Sunday when a container containing scrap metal exploded in the latest in a series of industrial accidents in eastern China.
Kim Jong Un arrives in Vietnam for summit with Trump
Associated Press, Published on 26/02/2019
» DONG DANG, Vietnam: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, grinning broadly and waving to a crowd gathered on a cold, rainy morning, stepped off his armoured train on Tuesday morning after a long ride that started in Pyongyang and wound through China to this Vietnamese border town ahead of his second nuclear summit with President Donald Trump.
Gunman kills 5 inside Florida bank, then calls police
Associated Press, Published on 24/01/2019
» SEBRING, Florida: A gunman opened fire inside a Florida bank on Wednesday, killing five people before surrendering to a SWAT team, police said.
Elon Musk unveils his underground transport tunnel
Associated Press, Published on 19/12/2018
» LOS ANGELES: Elon Musk unveiled his underground transportation tunnel on Tuesday, allowing reporters and invited guests to take some of the first rides in the revolutionary, albeit bumpy, subterranean tube - the tech entrepreneur's answer to "soul-destroying traffic".
'Worst in 64 years': Hurricane Florence heads for US
Associated Press, Published on 12/09/2018
» RALEIGH, North Carolina: Hurricane Florence churned Tuesday toward the Eastern Seaboard as a storm of "staggering" size, forcing a million people to evacuate the coast. Many more were left to wonder where they might be safe if days of torrential rains unleash floods from the mountains to the sea.
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.