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@Natalia_gimeno (SAO GONCALO DO AMARANTE, Brazil) — Forty people were injured, some seriously, after an Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay experienced strong turbulence and was diverted to Brazil, officials said. Flight UX045 experienced “heavy” turbulence early Monday morning but landed safely at Natal International Airport in São Gonçalo do Amarante, the airline said. […]

@Natalia_gimeno (SAO GONCALO DO AMARANTE, Brazil) — Forty people were injured after an Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay experienced strong turbulence and was diverted to Brazil, officials said. Flight UX045 experienced “heavy” turbulence early Monday morning and safely landed at Natal International Airport in São Gonçalo do Amarante, the airline said. The plane […]

Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 570,000 people in Gaza are on the brink of experiencing famine levels of hunger amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to a United Nations official. About one-quarter of the population — 576,000 people — are “one step away from famine” and facing a “grave […]

2023 Unprovoked Shark Attacks Globally — ABC News, Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File (NEW YORK) — Ten people died from unprovoked shark attacks globally in 2023, a slight uptick over the five-year average, according to a Florida-based database that tracks the rare events. After investigating 121 alleged shark-human interactions worldwide last […]

Displaced people line up to receive food cooked in large pots and distributed for free during the war near the tents in which they live on January 20, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. (Ahmad Hasaballah / Stringer/Getty Images) (GAZA) — More than half a million people in Gaza are currently facing “catastrophic hunger” amid the ongoing […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (SDEROT, Israel) — An Israeli fighter jet roared overhead as it dropped a bomb near where Lena Beseiso and her family were hunkered down in the war-torn Gaza Strip. The 57-year-old Palestinian-American citizen, who has been trapped there for weeks, is now no stranger to the sound of explosions, but the thunderous bang […]

bgwalker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 5,200 people are believed to have died in devastating floods across eastern Libya, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said Tuesday. Another 10,000 people are believed to be missing, according to Tamer Ramadan, Libya envoy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. “The death […]

bgwalker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 3,000 people are believed to have died in devastating floods across eastern Libya, the country’s health minister said Tuesday. Another 10,000 people are believed to be missing, according to Tamer Ramadan, Libya envoy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. “The death toll is […]

Valeria Ferraro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (LAMPEDUSA, Italy) — Forty-one people are presumed to have died in a shipwreck close to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Friday, survivors told the deputy general secretary of the Red Cross. Four migrants told the Red Cross that on Thursday they left Sfax, Tunisia and were shipwrecked the next […]

Ralph White/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After days of desperate searches throughout the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday that the five passengers aboard the missing submersible vessel were killed when vessel suffered a catastrophic implosion. Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood, his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeolet were inside the vessel […]