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ABC News (NEW YORK) — As the death toll from Hurricane Beryl climbed to six on Tuesday, the cyclone was losing some steam as it closed in on Jamaica. According to the National Hurricane Center, Beryl was downgraded to a Category 4 from a Category 5, but its maximum sustained winds remained dangerous at 155 […]
Josefiel Rivera/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (LONDON) — Mali, an elephant dubbed as the world’s “saddest” has died at a Philippine Zoo, Manila’s Mayor Honey Lacuna has announced. Vishwa Ma’ali — commonly known as Mali — was the only captive elephant in the Philippines. She passed away aged 43. “Just to set the record straight, […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — As Israelis were wrapping up the seven-day-long Jewish festival of Sukkot on Saturday, sirens echoed across the country just before dawn, and citizens soon realized it was not a false alarm. A full-fledged surprise attack was being waged from the air, sea and ground by hoards of Hamas militants. Thousands […]
ABC News The death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan has risen to over 1,023, with more than 1,600 injured, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the World Health Organization said Sunday. A powerful magnitude-6.3 earthquake followed by strong aftershocks killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan on Saturday, […]
Tom Soufi Burridge/ABC News (KYIV, Ukraine) — Six-year-old Sasha Pylypets watched, impassively, with a type of curious stare, as people threw handfuls of earth into her dad’s grave. Days later, in another Ukrainian region, Tetyana Taranukha sobbed uncontrollably as she arched her grief-stricken body over her son’s flag-draped coffin. She pressed her face down onto the […]
Antonino D’Urso/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (CUTRO, Italy) — The death toll climbed to 62 on Monday after a human smuggling boat packed with migrants slammed into the rocks off the coast of southern Italy on Sunday and “disintegrated” just feet from the shoreline, officials said. Migrants reportedly from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan — countries ravaged […]
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (MEXICO CITY) — Mexican authorities said Monday that the recent death of an American tourist appears to be “an unfortunate accident.” U.S. citizen Elliot Blair died on Jan. 14 at Las Rocas Resort and Spa, located on the shores of Rosarito Beach, just south of Tijuana, along the western coast of Mexico’s Baja […]
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