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18 tourists die in hot air balloon explosion in Egypt
The view from above southern Egypt is stunning, a contrast of beige desert valley giving way to green farmland. Tourists fill large baskets under hot air balloons to soak in the sight. Tuesday morning, as one of the balloons prepared to land, an explosion pierced the air, followed by a spreading billow of smoke.
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Russian meteor blast injures at least 1,000 people
A meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals region Friday morning, before exploding with a flash and boom that shattered glass in buildings and left about 1,000 people hurt, state media said.
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Dozens killed in India stampede
A local Indian official resigned Monday after a chaotic crush at a railroad station a day earlier left 36 people dead among tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims flocking to the banks of the Ganges River for the world's largest religious gathering.
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25 killed in blast at Mexican state oil company headquarters
An explosion rocked the offices of Mexico's state oil company Thursday, killing at least 25 people and injuring 101, Mexico's interior minister said.
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Baby delivered after car crash dies
A baby boy delivered by cesarean section after his parents were killed in a car crash over the weekend has died, police said Monday. The infant, rescued from his dead mother's womb after the hit-and-run crash in Brooklyn, had been in critical condition.
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Heavy snow claims eight lives in northern Japan
Heavy snow in northern Japan claimed the lives of eight people over the
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Inside Fukushima two years on: radiation levels too high to enter reactors
Two years on from the second-worst nuclear disaster in history, The Telegraph's Julian Ryall visits the Fukushima nuclear plant to see what progress - if any - is being made.
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Japan Earthquake, 2 Years Later: Before and After
In a few days, Japan will mark the 2nd anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake and resulting tsunami.
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Tsunami Debris Continues To Wash Up Thousands Of Miles From Japan
Two years ago, the yellow buoy was hanging as part of a restaurant sign in the coastal community of Minamisanriku in northern Japan when an earthquake triggered a tsunami and washed it — and so much more — out to sea.
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Boy pulled from Disney resort pool dies
Two days after he was pulled from the bottom of a swimming pool at a Disney resort in Florida, a 13-year-old boy from Missouri has died. Anthony Johnson had been playing in a pool at Disney's Pop Century Resort on Sunday. No lifeguards were on duty at the time; signs were posted warning that swimmers swam at their own risk.
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Nuclear Weapons.. Are Americans ready to use them?
Nuclear war is unthinkable. At least, that’s what we like to tell ourselves. Given the mass death and devastation from an atomic strike, surely only a desperate despot would even consider such a strike.
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7 killed in explosion at Nevada Marine training exercise
Seven Marines were killed as the result of an explosion during a Marine Corps training exercise at Hawthorne Army Depot in western Nevada, the Marine Corps said Tuesday.
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5 Ridiculous Natural Disaster Myths You Probably Believe
Extreme weather has become a sort of boogeyman for humanity. And like any boogeyman, the urban legends and old wives' tales have completely outpaced the original threat.
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Another Sinkhole Opens In Florida
Yet another sinkhole has appeared in the town of Seffner, Florida just a few blocks from where a different sinkhole killed Jeff Bush earlier this month...
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Blast kills 10 near U.S. Consulate in Pakistan
A suicide bomber rode a motorbike up to a security checkpoint a third of a mile from the consulate and detonated 22 pounds of explosives attached to his body, police spokesman Mohammad Faisal said. Along with those killed, the strike also injured 31 others, Pakistani military officials said.
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In pictures: Mauritius floods
Floods caused by sudden downpours swept through the Mauritian capital Port Louis on Saturday, leaving several people dead.
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Skyscraper on fire in Chechnya
Firefighters early Thursday extinguished a massive blaze that scorched the exterior of a 40-story apartment building in Grozny, Russia's state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.
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Where did all the money go? How $700 million in Katrina relief money went missing
Power Players Where did all the money go? “Your guess is as good as mine,” David Montoya, the inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says of $700 million in missing taxpayer money.
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Argentina hit by deadly rainstorms
Dozens of people have died in the province of Buenos Aires in Argentina after heavy rains caused flash floods.
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Chinese authorities kill 20,000 birds as avian flu toll rises to 6
hinese authorities have killed more than 20,000 birds from a live-poultry trading zone in Shanghai after an unusual strain of bird flu that has so far killed six people in the country was found in pigeons on sale in the city, state-run media outlet Xinhua reported Friday.
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