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Search ends for 2 passengers believed to have fallen off cruise ship
After scouring hundreds of miles of waters off Australia's coast, authorities on Friday called off a search for two cruise ship passengers who are believed to have fallen overboard. The 30-year-old man and 27-year-old woman were reported missing when the Carnival Cruise ship Spirit docked in Sydney on Thursday morning, CNN affiliate Seven Network reported. The first clue came when they didn't claim their luggage.
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100 Feared Trapped As Building Collapses In Rwanda
Around 100 people are feared trapped after a four-storey building under construction collapsed in northeastern Rwanda, the government said Tuesday.
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Deadly warehouse collapse in Cambodia
Two people died after a raised concrete walkway collapsed Thursday at a shoe factory warehouse in Cambodia, police said. Six other people were injured by the fallen walkway in a warehouse adjoining the factory, which is south of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, said National Police Spokesman Kirt Chantharith.
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Hot air balloons collide in Turkey; 2 dead
Two Brazilian tourists were killed when two hot air balloons collided in Turkey on Monday. The accident, which also injured 23 people, occurred in Turkey's popular tourist destination of Cappadocia, the central Turkish region famous for its chimney rocks, cave houses, underground cities and balloon trips.
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Oklahoma tornado tears massive path of death, destruction
Tornadoes destroyed homes and tossed trees around like toothpicks as powerful storms ripped through Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday.
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This is how much damage the deady US tornado did
The death count is now around 100 and many are still missing. More pics included.
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Terrified children, teachers' heroics, no shelter: Inside a tornado-ravaged school
It was the end of the school day. The kids at Plaza Towers Elementary School were stuffing their backpacks, looking forward to going home, playing with friends, eating snacks.But the tornado warnings changed that.
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Two Tornadoes 14 Years Apart, and a Man Who Saw Them Both
Oklahoma native Dustin Ellison has twice sifted through the wreckage of the same 7-11.
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Storm Chasers...They died 'doing what they loved'
A group of men who devoted their lives to hunting powerful storms died in the middle of the chase. Their work tracking tornadoes was featured on the former Discovery Channel show "Storm Chasers."
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Dozens dead in China poultry plant fire
An early morning fire at a poultry processing plant in northeast China killed at least 112 people. More than 300 workers were inside the plant in Jilin province when the fire broke out about 6 a.m
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Floods bring misery to central Europe
Rising rivers menaced swaths of Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria Tuesday, as floodwaters inundated historic cities and forced mass evacuations of low-lying areas.
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Tropical Storm Andrea drenches Florida's west coast
High winds and soaking rain started to fall on Florida as Tropical Storm Andrea neared the swampy Big Bend on Thursday.The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Andrea was already whipping up gusts as high as 48 mph in St. Petersburg, the National Hurricane Center reported. But forecasters said Andrea won't spend enough time over the Gulf of Mexico to develop into a hurricane before it makes a projected landfall in the crook of the state's west coast.
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Santa Monica College Shooting Leaves 5 Dead Including Suspect
The suspect in a shooting spree that left four people dead in Santa Monica has been identified as John Zawahri. Authorities say he killed his father, Samir "Sam" Zawahri, and brother, Chris Zawahri, in a Santa Monica house before carjacking a woman and firing at a public bus on Friday.
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165 kidnapped migrants freed in Mexico
Mexican authorities say they've rescued 165 migrants who were apparently kidnapped as they tried to cross into the United States. The victims were held for weeks in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas, Mexico's Interior Ministry said Thursday.
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Pool in a flood
This picture represents a clean pool surrounded by flooding in mainland Germany. Floods have been ravaging a large chunk of Europe over the past week or so.
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Chemical plant explodes in Louisiana
A Geismar, Louisiana, chemical plant exploded and caught fire Thursday, causing multiple injuries and forcing authorities to evacuate the area around the facility.
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4 Gorgeous Maps That Show The Most Disaster-Prone Places In America
Late last year John Nelson — a UX & Mapping manager at IDV Solutions — published a series of maps that looked at a new way to articulate weather data. With wildfires raging throughout Colorado and a nasty string of wild weather events hitting the U.S., there couldn't be a better time to check them out once again.
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Air Show Tragedy in Ohio
A stunt plane crashed at an Ohio air show on Saturday, killing two people.
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India floods death toll soars to 6,500
Army suspends rescue helicopter flights in Uttarakhand state due to dense fog as death toll rises.
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19 firefighters killed in Arizona blaze
They were part of an elite squad who confronted wildfires up close, setting up barriers to stop the spreading destruction. But the inferno blazing across central Arizona proved too much, even for the shelters the 19 firefighters carried as a last-ditch survival tool.
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