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Deadly family drama shuts Oktoberfest for a day
AFP, Published on 02/10/2025
» MUNICH (GERMANY) - A German man went on a deadly gun, explosives and arson rampage against his family and then killed himself on Wednesday, sparking security fears in Munich that shuttered the Oktoberfest for seven hours.
Trump plays golf in Scotland as protesters rally
AFP, Published on 26/07/2025
» TURNBERRY, Scotland - US President Donald Trump played golf under tight security on the first full day of a visit to Scotland on Saturday, as hundreds of protesters took to the streets in major cities.
Rescue teams comb site of Air India crash that killed at least 265
AFP, Published on 13/06/2025
» AHMEDABAD (INDIA) - Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed the crash site Friday of a London-bound passenger jet which ploughed into a residential area of India's Ahmedabad city, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground.
Death toll in Dominican nightclub disaster rises to 218
AFP, Published on 10/04/2025
» SANTO DOMINGO - The death toll after a roof collapsed at a crowded nightclub in the Dominican Republic has climbed to 218, the head of rescue operations said Thursday, in the Caribbean nation's worst disaster in decades.
Afghan arrested after car ramming 'attack' wounds 28 in Germany
AFP, Published on 14/02/2025
» MUNICH (GERMANY) - Police have arrested an Afghan asylum seeker at the scene of what German leaders labelled a car ramming "attack" that wounded 28 people, some seriously, in the southern city of Munich on Thursday.
Federal probe begins into deadly Los Angeles fires
AFP, Published on 15/01/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - A huge federal probe was under way Tuesday into what caused the deadly Los Angeles wildfires, with millions in the city clamoring for answers.
At least 106 dead after landslides in southern India
Reuters, Published on 30/07/2024
» THIRUVANANTHPURAM - Landslides swept through tea estates and villages in southern India’s Kerala state on Tuesday, killing at least 106 people while they slept as unexpected heavy rain collapsed hillsides and triggered torrents of mud, water and tumbling boulders
Landslides kill 18 on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, 2 missing
Reuters, Published on 15/04/2024
» JAKARTA - Landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island on the weekend killed at least 18 people with rescue efforts, including police sniffer dogs, still ongoing for two missing people, local authorities said on Monday.
Destruction, lawlessness and red tape hobble aid as Gazans go hungry
Reuters Special Report, Published on 25/03/2024
» CAIRO - In mid-March, a line of trucks stretched for 3 kilometres along a desert road near a crossing point from Israel into the Gaza Strip. On the same day, another line of trucks about 1.5 kilometres long and sometimes two or three across was backed up near a crossing from Egypt into Gaza.
Arrests in Germany over 'Cologne cathedral attack plot'
AFP, Published on 01/01/2024
» BERLIN - German police arrested three people on Sunday over an alleged attack plot targeting the cathedral in Cologne on New Year's Eve.