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Two people were confirmed dead Tuesday in the sinking of a fishing boat that sank off the South African coast in bad weather the previous night.
The body of one of the 19 passengers was pulled from the water Tuesday morning, while another body was found washed up on a beach Monday night, the SAPA news agency reported.
Two crew...
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German President Horst Koehler began winding up a six-day visit to Nigeria on Wednesday, travelling to the Muslim north for a colourful reception by the emir of the state of Kano.
Koehler, whose visit was devoted both to German-African affairs and to bilateral ties between Germany and Nigeria, was treated to a durbar, a colourful...
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"We are trying to determine the cause of the
accident," spokesman Maj. Felix Kulayigye said after a truck transporting
more than 100 soldiers and their families crashed. The accident took place on
Monday in the eastern part of Uganda,
Kampala, after
the truck hit the concrete side railing. The cause of the event is...
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Minutes after the US Army Humvee leaves its mountain base, 7.62-millimetre bullets tear into the hood and turret until one finally hits driver Alex Goduti's windshield panel dead centre.
The reinforced glass withstands the impact but the next round or two at most will shatter it, so he slams the vehicle in reverse and sends it...
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Seven sailors went missing when a fishing boat capsized in high waves Wednesday in waters off the south-eastern coast of South Korea, news reports said.
Three of the 10 crew members of the 79-ton ship were rescued and were receiving medical treatment, the national Yonhap News Agency said.
The coast guard sent ships and a...
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Divers from two salvage firms began to retrieve toxic chemicals from a
sunken passenger ferry in the Philippines Tuesday, a senior official
said.
Transportation Undersecretary Elena Bautista said about 400 packs
of hazardous pesticide endosulfan was retrieved from Princess of the
Stars, which sank off central island of Sibuyan,...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials reported Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials said Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National Steering...
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Typhoon Jangmi lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rains Sunday, forcing a standstill in domestic air traffic and some railway services.
The typhoon packed center winds of up to 184 kilometres per hour and gusts of up to 227 kilometres per hour, making landfall in the north-eastern county of Ilan in the afternoon, the...
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Formula One heads into unknown territory on the weekend for the maiden Singapore Grand Prix which also marks the first race under floodlights.
World championship leader Lewis Hamilton must overcome the disappointment of having an appeal against a latest penalty revoked and like all other drivers will have to adapt to the unfamiliar...
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The Chinese death toll from Typhoon Hagupit rose to 10 with at least two people still missing as the storm brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China, state media said on Thursday.
Floods, landslides and wind damage caused by the typhoon affected 8.73 million residents and 400,000 hectares of crops in Guangdong...
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At least one person died and tens of thousands were evacuated Wednesday as Typhoon Hagupit brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China.
The island province of Hainan evacuated about 107,000 people from vulnerable areas while two cities in nearby Guangdong province moved more than 38,000 as the typhoon approached,...
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Hong Kong braced for Typhoon Hagupit Tuesday, cancelling dozens of flights and ferry services, after the storm killed five people and left four missing in the Philippines.
Two of the people killed in the Philippines drowned in a swollen river in the central province of Antique, two were buried in landslides in the northern city of...
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Dozens of flights were cancelled Tuesday as Typhoon Hagupit, which killed at least five people in the Philippines, bore down on Hong Kong.
Schools and kindergartens were closed Tuesday afternoon, and ferry services to outlying islands were suspended as the fast-moving storm closed in on the high-rise city of 6.9 million.
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Taiwan braced Monday for Typhoon Hagupit as the storm, which already killed at least one person and stranded thousands of passengers in the Philippines, was expected to brush the southern tip of the island.
The Central Weather Bureau said the rim of the typhoon, which packed centre winds of 155 kilometres per hour and gusts of 191...
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One man was missing and 49 people were injured when tropical storm Nuri hit Hong Kong Friday.
Nuri, which had left seven dead in the Philippines, had weakened and been downgraded into a severe tropical storm by the time it reached Hong Kong in the late afternoon.
However, it still managed to bring Hong Kong to a standstill. The...
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Seven people, including three children, were killed Wednesday as a powerful typhoon slammed into the northern Philippines, triggering landslides and flashfloods.
The children, aged 10, 3 and 1, were buried in a mudslide in Ucab village in Itogon town in Benguet province, 225 kilometres north of Manila, the Office of Civil Defence...
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The Philippines on Tuesday braced for a typhoon that was expected to make landfall over the country's northernmost provinces, the weather bureau said.
Typhoon Nuri was packing maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometres per hour and gusts of up to 160 kilometres per hour as it bore down on the northern Philippines.
The weather bureau...
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 Typhoon Fung-Wong lashed Taiwan Monday, bringing strong winds and heavy rains which triggered landslides and floods. Schools, offices, banks and the local stock exchange had to be closed. Moreover, the railway traffic was stopped due to the powerful winds of up to 126 kilometers (90 miles).The typhoon made landfall on the east central...
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 According to emergency officials, at least 6 people were killed and 6 others injured after Typhoon Kalmaegi hit Taiwan Friday. The Central Weather Bureau said Kalmaegi headed away from Taiwan and toward southern China Friday morning, with winds of 52 miles per hour. In the past 24 hours, parts of the south have recorded up to 44 inches...
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Over 800 people were missing Monday after a Philippine ferry turned over in one of the most powerful typhoons the archipelago has ever seen. The capsizing of the Princess of the Stars, on Saturday, was the worst catastrophe in a weekend of tragedy for the Philippines, as typhoon Fengshen razed the islands, bringing torrents and wind...
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 Twelve people were reportedly killed while
more than 34,000 were displaced after Typhoon Halong hit the northern Phillippines
on Monday, about half of them pinned down by fallen trees or hit by flying
debris in the provinces of Pangasinan, La Union and Zambales, the National
Disaster Coordinating Council reported.
One of the...
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 The cyclone that hit Burma
on Saturday killed more than 350 people, devastating Rangoon and many rural areas. State media
reported that thousands of buildings were destroyed by the storm. 19 people
died in Rangoon, while more than 220 people died
in the Irrawaddy division, a low-lying area
where much of Burmese rice is...
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 Typhoon Neoguri, a two category storm on a scale up to five,
is expected to drop 40 mm (one and a half inches) to 90 mm of rain on Hainan
and Guangdong
and to bring winds of 176 kilometers (110 miles) per hour, the US Navy Joint
Typhoon Warning Center said.
Neoguri’s eyes, which is the second storm of the northwest
Pacific...
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 According to meteorologists, a tropical cyclone bearing down
on the South Pacific island nation of Fiji has intensified into a category four
storm, the second most powerful cyclone, with destructive winds up to 200 kph
(125 mph).
Cyclone Daman is expected to hit the nation's second largest island Vanua Levu
early on Saturday,...
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 Power outages, flash floods and landslides hit the northern Philippines
Monday amid heavy rains and strong winds brought by a powerful typhoon
that has already killed eight people.
The National Disaster Coordinating Council said more than 140,000
people were evacuated in the northern Philippines, which was suffering
the brunt of...
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 A powerful typhoon skirted populated provinces in the eastern
Philippines on Saturday, where thousands of residents had been forced
to evacuate their homes to avoid the repeat of a disaster that killed
more than 1,000 people last year.
Typhoon Mitag veered away from its course before dawn on Saturday,
sparing the provinces of...
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 According to local officials, thousands of people are being
evacuated as tropical storm Mitag gains strength, becoming a typhoon as it
nears the eastern Philippines.
Mitag, packing winds of 120 kilometres per hour with gusts of 150km/h, was
barreling towards the Bicol peninsula, south-east of the capital Manila, the
local weather...
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 According to the government, the number of people left dead
after the powerful cyclone that swept through Bangladesh last Thursday rose to
more than 3,000 today. The United Nations estimated that a million people had
been left homeless, many of them in remote areas without predictable food
supplies.
The Bangladesh Red Crescent...
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 A massive rescue and relief operation has been mounted Saturday by
thousands of soldiers and civilian volunteers in southern Bangladesh,
which was tossed by a devastating tropical cyclone that left a trail of
death and destruction.
Rescuers counted another 300 bodies of people killed in Friday's
cyclone that triggered mudslides...
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 Cyclone Sidr, which roared ashore with winds of more than 200
kilometres per hour, has killed at least 214 people in Bangladesh, an
official with the disaster management office in Dhaka said Friday.
Muhammad Mia said 87 deaths were reported alone in the coastal district of Barguna, the area hardest hit.
The death toll could rise...
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 A powerful tropical cyclone struck the southern Bangladesh coast
Thursday forcing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes
after the peripheral stormy winds sparked giant waves and floods on the
off-shore islands, officials said.
One million people living in fragile coastal villages were
evacuated to safe locations...
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 According to Vietnamese government officials, three people died after Typhoon Lekima hit Vietnam on Monday with speeds in excess of 120 kilometers (75 miles) per hour, bringing massive floods and down poring precipitations.The storm caused communication breakdowns, knocking down telephone poles and power lines along with houses in Ha...
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 Much feared Typhoon Wipha hit the south coast of Shanghai early Wednesday
afternoon, flooding streets and fields and causing massive transport disruptions.
Although believed to be the strongest typhoon to hit shanghai in the past decade,
only one man was killed by electrocution during a power surge.
Shanghai, China's biggest city,...
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 Shutting down local airports and re-routing flights in or
out of China
are only a few precautioanary measures taken by the Chinese government to minimize
possible damage afflicted by the passing of the Wipha typhoon.
The imminent impact of Wipha has also caused the closing of the stock exchange market,
as meteorologists expect a...
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According to local officials, the fast-moving typhoon called
Nari has killed at least 14 people, injuring many more.
As it was moving on an eastern axis through the cities of South Korea
bringing with it heavy rain and floods, Typhoon Nari caused both local and international
flights to be grounded.
South
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 Tokyo
is on alert after a powerful typhoon is threatening to hit by Friday. Flights
were grounded as the typhoon was expected to bring floods and landslides after
dumping heavy rains on central Japan.
Typhoon Fitow was near Hachijo
Island, 124 miles south of Tokyo, where towering
20-foot waves were reported. Although it is only a...
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A powerful typhoon rain pounded the Japanese island of Kyushu on Thursday forcing cancelation of a significant number of flights. The Japanese Meteorological Agency said that the typhoon, named Usagi (rabbit in Japanese) packed winds gusting up to 180 km per hour (112 mph).The Kyushu and Shikoku islands were also expected to be affected...
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 While the southern regions are battered by heavy rain and strong winds, northern Japan was struck early Monday by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that killed four persons and caused nuclear reactors to shut down.The most affected region was Niigata prefecture, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, where two people were caught under rubble from...
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 The powerful typhoon Man-yi lashed out at southern Japan on Saturday with strong winds and torrential rains, 44 people reportedly being injured and thousands displaced due to the intense storm.After ravaging the southernmost islands of Okinawa on Friday, the tropical storm struck Kyushu, the third-largest island of Japan and is moving...
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 The southern islands of Okinawa were struck Friday by a powerful typhoon, strong winds and torrential rains battering settlements and forcing hundreds of people out of their homes.Over 370 domestic flights were postponed and massive power cuts left about 100,000 inhabitants in the dark, 23 persons being injured by the tropical cyclone...
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 At least 12 people died and dozens are still missing after a passenger ferry sank Thursday in central Philippines.The MV Blue Water Princess went under in the early hours off the coast of San Francisco, about 140 miles south-east of Manila in the Quezon province. According to the coast guard, 129 people have been rescued, but another 115...
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 Karachi is battered by fierce storms for the past two days, more than 200 people being killed in Pakistan’s largest city, the authorities reported Sunday.Most of the fatalities were caused by fallen power lines and crumbling buildings, that trapped hundreds under piles of rubble and mud.The powerful winds trampled trees, billboards and...
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 Kevin Smith is a true influence for the new generation of film makers. After he made “Clerks,” he is now coming back with a new comedy named “Zack and Miri Make a Porno.” Smith chose Seth Rogen to play Zack, a slacker who makes a skin brush together with his best friend as to earn some cash.When Smith started to make the movie, Rogen was...
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At least three people died, two were missing and tens of thousands were evacuated Wednesday as Typhoon Hagupit brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China.
The typhoon destroyed 7,915 houses and affected some five million people in Guangdong province, where all the casualties were reported, the official Xinhua news...
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Paul Goodison claimed Great Britain's third sailing gold of the Beijing Games with victory in the men's Laser category Tuesday while American Anna Tunnicliffe won the women's Laser Radial.
Goodison made up for the disappointment of finishing fourth in Athens four years ago by holding on to his lead in the 10th and final race, winning...
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 Tropical storm Dolly, which strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane, hit the southern tip of Texas yesterday, shaking houses with violent winds and generating tornado warnings, as well as increasing fears of considerable flooding. Dolly, the first Atlantic hurricane to hammer the U.S. in 2008, reached the land at South Padre Island, in...
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 Hurricane Dolly formed in the Caribbean is heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border and may strengthen into a Category 2 storm before reaching the coast around midday, forecasters predicted. According to the National Hurricane Center’s Web site, early this morning the hurricane’s center was an estimated 55 miles (90 kilometers)...
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 U.S. National Hurricane Center informs that Tropical Storm Fausto, which is expected to become a hurricane, and Hurricane Elida plowed across the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from Mexico, whereas in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Bertha moved away from Bermuda.At 4 a.m., the center of Tropical Storm Bertha was situated about 355 miles...
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 The new hurricane season starts with Boris and Bertha. Boris
passed without hurting anyone, but Bertha blew out suddenly. Boris erupted in
the Pacific and went to the western coast of Mexico and caused no damage.
Bertha formed last Thursday near the Cape Verde
islands and set a record for the farthest east that a tropical storm has...
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According to an infrared satellite image from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National
Hurricane Center
shows Tropical Storm Bertha moving towards warmer water and gaining strength
quickly.
Hurricane Bertha has strengthened to a Category 3 storm on
the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane...
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This infrared satellite image from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's National
Hurricane Center
shows Tropical Storm Bertha moving towards warmer water and gaining strength in
a short time.
According to forecasters, Bertha is expected to become the
season's first hurricane. The tropical storm has sustained...
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A 71-year-old-man died and six others were rescued Tuesday
from two boats off the coast of La Push, Clallam County,
the Coast Guard reported.
It appears that at 9:47 a.m., the master of a recreational
boat radioed Coast Guard Group/Air Station Port Angeles that the boat was
taking on water, but was unable to give a location...
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The worst dust storm in 40 years was Monday dusting the snow with an orange powder in the alpine region of Australia's south-east corner and bringing what locals call mud rain.
Winds of up to 100 kilometres per hour are lifting soil from the arid interior of New South Wales and dumping it nearer the coast. When combined with rain, it...
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 Cyclone Daman destroyed two villages on the small Fiji island of
Cikobia early Saturday, according to a Radio New Zealand report from
the capital, Suva.
The first cyclone of the 2007/08 season in the South Pacific, rated
category four, which can have wind gusts up to 279 kilometres an hour,
Daman passed directly over the island...
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 Despite hard weather, the two
rovers that NASA has sent on Mars are still active, and also ready for
continuing their space missions on the red planet. Spirit and Opportunity,
as the two rovers are called, have successfully survived the severe dust storm
that has taken place on Mars starting with early August, as well as...
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Hurricane Paloma strengthened over the Caribbean and was approaching the Cayman Islands and Cuba with sustained winds of 140 kilometres an hour on Friday.
"Paloma is a category one hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Strengthening is likely and Paloma is expected to become a category two hurricane later today (Friday) and...
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Hurricane Paloma strengthened over the Caribbean and was approaching the Cayman Islands and Cuba with sustained winds of 140 kilometres an hour on Friday.
"Paloma is a category one hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Strengthening is likely and Paloma is expected to become a category two hurricane later today (Friday) and...
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 Meteorologists’ research has shown that Tropical Storm Bertha has begun moving away from the Cape Verde Islands on Friday morning after forming in the far eastern Atlantic on Thursday afternoon.The storm is expected to take a turn to the northwest and then north before it reaches North America. It’s early to predict any development of...
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 Severe storms hit the Southeast on Thursday, damaging houses and shopping areas in at least four states. Some northeast Mississippi counties and areas of northwest Alabama were under tornado warnings until midafternoon Thursday. One person was killed and three were injured by a tornado which hit North Carolina, authorities said. A strong...
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 According to Nicaraguan officials, at least 60 people have
died at the hand of Hurricane Felix after it hit the Caribbean
coast on Tuesday.
The worst damage was bound to come as Hurricane Felix’s
rampage continued. Meteorologists said that the hurricane would die down after
entering the Gulf of Mexico but they were
wrong.
The...
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Accidents snarled high-lying snowed-over roads Friday in Germany as Alpine countries stood by for high winds, sinking temperatures and heavy snow.
In the upland central state of Thuringia, a highway maintenance vehicle spreading salt to melt the snow was struck by a skidding truck, destroying both vehicles, police said. The drivers...
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European Union countries must improve their energy efficiency and stop using the financial crisis as an excuse not to reduce pollution, the bloc's top officials said Thursday.
"The financial crisis has not diminished the risks to our planet deriving from climate change," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso...
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Britain's QE2 luxury liner, which is to be turned into a floating hotel in Dubai, temporarily ran aground on its final call at its home port of Southampton, southern England, Tuesday.
Tugs were employed to refloat the vessel which it was believed had been blown off course by strong winds as it negotiated entry into the port in the...
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 As the weather worsens by the minute, media services talk
about a man that died in the crash which took place just after 11am on the
northbound carriageway of the A90 Brechin by-pass in Scotland.
Treacherous conditions have been reported across the country
prompting severe weather warnings to be issued...
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 At least three Bulgarian sailors were killed and eight shipmates were
missing and feared dead after a cargo ship sank during a storm in the
Sea of Azov, officials in Sofia and Kiev said Thursday.
One crew member, the ship's second mechanic, was rescued from the
icy water and was en route to a Russian hospital, Bulgarian...
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 A vicious winter storm slammed into the Black Sea coasts of Ukraine and
Russia on Sunday, sinking ships and wreaking havoc ashore, the Interfax
news agency reported.
The level six gale at its epicentre near the Kerch Strait was
producing waves in excess of five metres, and winds over 32 metres per
second, officials at Ukraine...
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 According to local authorities, the Netherlands and Britain
have taken precautionary measure by closing sea defense barriers, evacuating
North Sea oil rig workers and relocating thousands of people from homes as a
storm sent a 3-metre tidal surge along their coasts.
British police told people to leave their homes as the east
coast...
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 After days of strenuous work, hundreds of firefighters, soldiers and volunteers managed to quell the merciless blazes that destroyed homes and lives in Greece, authorities announced on Thursday.Official sources set the death toll at 64 after almost a week of inferno, the value of the material damage being expected to reach billions of...
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 Greece began the fourth nightmarish day of fighting unchecked wildfires that now spread over nearly half the country. Four suspects were charged with starting fires that have allegedly killed at least 63 people since Friday.New fires broke out today at the border of Athens, generate a rush of firefighting crews to Papagou, a suburb of...
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 Devastating fires are sweeping the Canary Islands, destroying the Spanish archipelago's unique wildlife. Both Gran Canaria and Tenerife were affected, with some 24,000 hectares (60,000 acres) of land already gone up in smoke. Around 10,000 people fled out of their homes to seek safety from the fires.The fires had not affected beaches or...
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 A boat race for children ended suddenly in the Irish Sea after a sudden squall caused 91 vessels to capsize and 120 children were swept out to sea on Thursday, the Irish Coast Guard informed.The incident occurred at about 2 pm off the eastern coast of Dun Laoghaire while a junior regatta was taking place. The powerful winds tilted over...
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 Venus Williams advanced to the semi finals after a much disputed match against Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova. The triple champion won in two sets 6-3, 6-4 on the famed Centre Court and will meet Ana Ivanovic on Friday. "I was able to stay tough against a great opponent," said Williams in the press conference. "I felt so...
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 According to gaming site Kotaku, the layoff winds that have blown in April at Sony’s European division have now arrived in the US, where up to 100 employees are now expecting to be fired.Sony Computer Entertainment America senior director of corporate PR Dave Karraker has confirmed that a "streamlining" is underway at the...
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 Pakistan’s southern coastal region was battered Tuesday by strong winds and heavy rains, at least 13 people being reported dead and thousands forced out of their homes.The savage cyclone Yemyin wreaked havoc on the Balochistan coastline, where people fled to higher regions after most of the area was flooded. Local officials informed that...
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 Cyclone Gonu, the worst tropical storm to hit the Arabian Sea region made its first victims in Oman, three people being killed Thursday in the province that holds the country’s capital Muscat.According to a police official, the heavy rains and strong winds flooded numerous houses and took three lives until now, injuring nine persons....
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 The strongest tropical cyclone to hit the Arabian Sea region, Cyclone Gonu prompted Iran's Interior Ministry to declare an emergency state in the southern regions and evacuate hundreds in Chabahr on Wednesday.Hormuzgan and Sistan-Beluchistan, two southeastern coastline provinces have received warnings from Iran’s Department of...
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 Recent reports suggesting that the Ares I rocket is doomed to failure have been denied by NASA officials. The story first appeared in the Orlando Sentinel, on October the 26th, where it was mentioned that there are concerns regarding Ares I crashing into its launch tower under certain wind conditions. This delayed the U.S. space agency’s...
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 The Italian Space Agency has reported that the Cassini space probe has found the best evidence yet that there is the possibility that Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, might hide a large underground mass of water under its surface.The hypothesis has a lot of chances to be true, since similar underground oceans have been discovered on...
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