By Matthew Walsh with Laurie Chen GUANGZHOU / BEIJNG - A China Eastern passenger jet carrying 132 people crashed into a remote mountainside in southern China on Monday (21) after dropping thousands of metres in just three minutes, sparking…
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By Zinara Rathnayake COLOMBO - When Adnan Sheikh took his family on holiday to Sri Lanka last October, he booked them into a hotel for two weeks in Sarakkuwa beach, just off the coast from where the X-Press Pearl cargo ship caught fire and…
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By Ashley Southall, Grace Ashford and Chelsia Rose Marcius NEW YORK — Nineteen people, including nine children, were killed Sunday (9) when an apartment fire started by a malfunctioning space heater sent smoke billowing through a Bronx…
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By Zanele Mji and Lynsey Chutel CAPE TOWN— As a fire that gutted the country’s Parliament buildings was finally extinguished Tuesday (4) and a bedraggled suspect appeared in court, South Africans were struggling to understand whether the…
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By Zanele Mji and Lynsey Chutel CAPE TOWN — Prosecutors on Tuesday (4) charged a 49-year-old man from a Cape Town township with arson, theft, housebreaking and possession of explosives in connection with the fire that gutted South Africa’s…
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By Lynsey Chutel and Austin Ramzy CAPE TOWN — A large fire at South Africa’s Houses of Parliament on Sunday (2) sent flames and smoke billowing from rooftops and fire crews racing to save the historic structures. Officials said the fire…
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COLOMBO - The wreck of a chemical ship that caught fire off the Sri Lankan coast and caused environmental carnage will be removed, the operators said Wednesday (8). A salvage company has been contracted to remove the sunken MV X-Press…
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By Muktita Suhartono and Dan Bilefsky JAKARTA - A fire at a prison in Indonesia killed at least 41 people and injured eight more, officials said Wednesday (8), adding to the sense of crisis facing the country’s overcrowded correctional…
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By Raziye Akkoc with AFP bureaus ANKARA - Dozens of villages were evacuated in tourist hotspots in southern Turkey on Sunday (Aug 1) as wildfires that have claimed eight lives raged for a fifth day, while blazes also hit Greece, Italy and…
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By Ranil P. Nanayakkara The Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka has faced many maritime disasters over the years, but none as bad as the recent incident with the MV X-Press Pearl, a freighter that caught fire on May 20 in close proximity to…
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