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At least 6 dead as wildfire razes Hawaiian town
AFP, Published on 10/08/2023
» LOS ANGELES - At least six people have been killed in a wildfire that has razed a Hawaiian town, officials said Wednesday, with desperate residents jumping into the ocean in a bid to escape the fast-moving flames.
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Helpless fish need heroes, too
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/04/2023
» Construction workers have been at work demolishing an abandoned tuberculosis hospital in Queens, New York, over the past several months, dismantling the long-empty wards and carting off the bricks. But first, they had to figure out what to do with a school of goldfish that for unknown reasons had come to call the flooded basement home. Three hundred of them.
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Huddled in giant refrigerator, nine lives saved from US tornado
AFP, Published on 28/03/2023
» ROLLING FORK (UNITED STATES) - As the thunder roared outside and the lights inside Chuck's Dairy Bar began to blink, owner Tracy Harden realized the tornado conditions forecasted for her small Mississippi town Friday night were far more severe than she realized.
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Attack on US House Speaker's husband raises alarm
Published on 29/10/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO: A man who clubbed the husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the head with a hammer, shouting “Where is Nancy?”, faces a charge of attempted murder after the violent break-in at the couple’s San Francisco home.
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Intruder attacks husband of top US Democrat with hammer
AFP, Published on 29/10/2022
» WASHINGTON - An intruder attacked the husband of the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer after breaking into their California home Friday, police said, leaving him needing hospital treatment.
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Can smartphones help predict suicide?
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/10/2022
» In March, Katelin Cruz left her latest psychiatric hospitalisation with a familiar mix of feelings. She was, on the one hand, relieved to leave the ward, where aides took away her shoelaces and sometimes followed her into the shower to ensure that she would not harm herself.
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French author Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Literature Prize
AFP, Published on 06/10/2022
» STOCKHOLM - French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the jury announced.
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The crime wave at 312 Riverside Drive
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/10/2022
» 'New York City 911," the emergency dispatcher answered. "Do you need police, fire or medical?"
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Russian tourists' luxury cars fill up Helsinki airport
AFP, Published on 23/08/2022
» HELSINKI: Porsches, Bentleys and other luxury cars with Russian licence plates are filling up the parking garage at Helsinki's airport as Finland becomes an important transit country for Russian tourists flying to Europe.
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Trained, armed and ready to teach kindy
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 21/08/2022
» Mandi, a kindergarten teacher in Ohio, had already done what she could to secure her classroom against a gunman.
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