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Berezko via Getty Images (CAIRO) — Dozens of tourists are feared missing after a diving boat sank off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, authorities said on Monday. The Sea Story, as the boat is known, sank off the southeastern Egyptian town of Marsa Alam, near the Shaab Satayah area, which is popular for its coral reefs, […]
Clara Margais/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — On the streets of Alfafar on Wednesday, cars and caravans were strewn like toys in the muddy aftermath of the floodwater that had rushed through the Spanish town. Emergency crews descended on Wednesday on that town and others surrounding Valencia, wading through washed-out neighborhoods, searching homes and […]
George Karbus Photography/Getty Images (LONDON) — A cruise line has apologized to over 1,000 of its passengers after one of their ships arrived at port in the middle of a whale hunt where dozens of the marine mammals were being slaughtered. Ambassador Cruise Lines confirmed on Thursday that the arrival of their ship Ambition in […]
KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — Dozens of illegal miners have safely exited an underground gold mine shaft in the Ashanti region of Ghana after they were feared trapped. Several illegal miners are reported to have entered AngloGold Ltd.’s Obuasi Mines in Anwiam, Ashanti Region, in search of gold deposits. However, the miners found themselves unable to […]
fhm/Getty Images (LONDON) — One person is dead and at least 30 people have been “seriously injured” after a passenger train carrying at least 50 people derailed following a collision with construction equipment in the Netherlands. The accident happened near Voorschoten, a village between The Hague and Amsterdam, at approximately 3:30 a.m. local time on […]
Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A fire broke out at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, killing at least 39 people, officials said in a statement. The fire started at about 10 p.m. on Monday at the Instituto Nacional de Migración, Mexico’s Institute of Migration said early Tuesday. The center […]
SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP via Getty Images (TEMPI, Greece) — At least 57 people were killed and more than 80 others were injured in a head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train in Greece late Tuesday, which officials said was mainly due to human error. The crash occurred shortly before midnight in the town […]
SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP via Getty Images (TEMPI, Greece) — At least 43 people were killed and more than 80 others injured in a head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train in Greece late Tuesday, in what was mainly due to human error, officials said. The two trains that crashed into one another were running […]
SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 38 people were killed and more than 80 others injured in a head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train in Greece late Tuesday, officials said. The crash occurred shortly before midnight in the town of Tempi along the Athens-Thessaloniki route at the […]
SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 36 people were killed and more than 80 others injured in a head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train in northern Greece late Tuesday, officials said. The crash occurred shortly before midnight in the town of Tempi along the Athens-Thessaloniki route at […]
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