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Hyderabad -
A passenger train rammed into a school bus in southern India on Thursday killing 20 people, mostly young children, officials said in the latest fatal accident on the country's rail network.
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by Vivek Nemana (AFP)
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Hyderabad -
A passenger train rammed into a school bus in southern India on Thursday killing at least 11 children, with fears the death toll could rise further, officials said.
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by AFP
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Makung -
Rescuers said Thursday they had recovered black boxes from the Taiwanese aircraft which crashed in torrential rain killing 48 people, as angry relatives blamed authorities for the worst air disaster in a decade.
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by Benjamin Yeh (AFP)
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Taipei -
At least 42 people were killed in a plane crash in Taiwan on Wednesday, officials said, with witnesses and local media reporting the flight came down in a storm after an aborted landing.
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by Amber Wang (AFP)
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Rome -
Italian police have arrested five migrants accused of the grisly murder of scores of fellow would-be refugees when fighting broke out on a boat making the treacherous crossing to Europe, local media reported.
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by AFP
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Giglio -
Italy's doomed cruise ship Costa Concordia left its wreckage site Wednesday in one of the largest-ever maritime salvage operations, two and a half years after the disaster left 32 people dead.
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by AFP
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Seoul -
South Korea's police force was pilloried as doltish and incompetent Wednesday after announcing that a body found six weeks ago was that of a fugitive tycoon at the heart of a months-long manhunt.
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by AFP
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Seoul -
South Korean police announced Tuesday that a badly-decomposed body found last month had been identified as that of the fugitive tycoon whose family owned the ferry which sank in April with the loss of 300 lives.
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by Park Chan-Kyong (AFP)
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Valletta -
The death toll from the latest Mediterranean migrant boat disaster rose to 30 on Sunday, as Malta said it had found 29 bodies in the vessel's hold and Italy said a Syrian baby had died.
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by AFP
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Kuala Lumpur -
Malaysia Airlines said it would offer full refunds to customers who want to cancel their tickets in the wake of the MH17 disaster, just months after the carrier suffered another blow when flight MH370 disappeared.
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by AFP
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Sydney -
Australians were Sunday remembering those killed on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at church services, as stories emerged of parents losing children, and doctors, teachers and a nun among the dead.
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by AFP
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Dresden -
Nine people are confirmed dead and scores more are injured after three buses plow into each other on the German autobahn.
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Beijing -
At least 38 people were killed when a van carrying inflammable liquid hit a bus on a highway in central China early Saturday, state media reported.
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by AFP
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Kuala Lumpur -
The downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with 298 people aboard heaped new distress on a nation still stung by the trauma and global stigma of flight MH370's disappearance four months ago.
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by Dan Martin (AFP)
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Seoul -
Divers retrieved another body Friday from the site of South Korea's ferry disaster -- the first to be recovered in nearly four weeks from the submerged vessel that sank three months ago.
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by AFP
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Distraught and sobbing relatives poured into Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as the nation reeled from the news 154 of its citizens were aboard a Malaysian plane believed to have been shot down in Ukraine.
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by Jan Hennop (AFP)
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Kuala Lumpur -
Malaysia's premier expressed "shock" at reports a Malaysia Airlines flight may have been shot down over troubled eastern Ukraine as his nation reeled from another wrenching air tragedy just months after MH370 disappeared.
In the Media
by Julia Zappei (AFP)
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Kiev -
A Malaysian passenger liner flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in insurgency-wracked east Ukraine, regional officials said Thursday, as Ukraine's president said the jet may have been shot down.
In the Media
by Max Delany and Dmitry Zaks (AFP)
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Warsaw -
Seven people, all members of the same family, died in a freak accident Thursday after falling into an industrial-size septic tank on a pig farm in western Poland, firefighters said.
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Seoul -
A helicopter that had been searching for victims of South Korea's ferry disaster crashed Thursday in a residential district of Gwangju city, killing all five people on board, officials said.
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by AFP
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Seattle -
A man accidentally set his laundry room on fire while using a can of spray paint and a lighter to shoot flames at a spider.
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Moscow -
Russian investigators said Wednesday they had detained two metro workers over a devastating crash in the Moscow subway that killed 22 people as anger mounted over the tragedy.
In the Media
by Anna Smolchenko (AFP)
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Moscow -
Russian investigators said Wednesday they had detained two metro workers over a devastating crash in the Moscow subway that killed at least 21 people, as anger mounted over the tragedy.
In the Media
by Anna SMOLCHENKO (AFP) - 1 comment
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Moscow -
In a small park near Moscow's Victory Park metro station, five medics huddled around a man stretched out on the grass.
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by Maria Antonova (AFP)
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Kuala Lumpur -
Malaysian authorities on Tuesday were searching for nine people missing at sea after an overloaded fishing boat carrying illegal Indonesian migrants capsized off southern Malaysia, killing at least two.
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by Julia Zappei (AFP)
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Moscow -
Twenty-one people died and scores more were injured after a train derailed in Moscow's packed metro during morning rush hour on Tuesday in the worst accident ever to hit one of the world's busiest subways.
In the Media
by Anna Malpas, Maria Antonova (AFP)
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Moscow -
Ten people died on Tuesday after a Moscow metro train derailed, the city's deputy mayor Pyotr Biryukov told journalists at the scene.
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by AFP
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Kuala Lumpur -
At least two people died and 18 others were missing after an overloaded fishing boat carrying illegal Indonesian immigrants capsized off the coast of southern Malaysia, a maritime official said Tuesday.
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by AFP
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Longueuil -
The Cessna crashed down directly into a local backyard. It crushed a spa and gazebo but only left the pilot with slight injuries. Reports state that a resident cut the pilot out of her straps and rushed her to a nearby hospital.
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Trenton -
Famed actor and comedian Tracy Morgan has filed suit against retail giant Wal-Mart for its alleged involvement in the crash that left him critically injured and one person dead.
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Accident scene at the Obalende area of Lagos
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60 year-old cyclist pronounced dead at scene of TTC accident.
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60 year-old cyclist pronounced dead at scene of TTC accident.
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A woman on the phone after the scene of a highway accident
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A Boeing 737 skids off the runway in Bali
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The rescue operation underway on the Costa Concordia cruise ship
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SUV plunged off Bronx River Parkway, seven family members were killed
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Two drivers post-accident
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An estimated 22 people were killed in a horrific accident on the M13 highway in Durban, South Africa.
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Head-on collision
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What is left of Kyle Larson's car after a last lap wreck in the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series race.
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Police siren.
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Hundreds of temporary storage tanks filled with contaminated water line the grounds of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant grounds.
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Lion Air plane crashes in Bali
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