Disasters / Accidents
Fatal incident at military college in Canada leaves four cadets dead
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -A probe was under way into a fatal incident involving a vehicle on the Royal Military...
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Japan finds wreck of boat missing after accident that killed 14
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan located on Friday the hull of a tour boat off its northern coast, the coast guard said,...
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Solomon Islands PM says won’t accept militarisation of Pacific
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Solomon Islands signed a security pact with China because a similar deal with Australia was inadequate,...
Read moreDeath toll from fire at Russian defence institute rises to 22 -Tass
(Reuters) - Rescuers have found two more bodies after a fire at a Russian aerospace defence research institute last week,...
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Malnourished kids crowd hospital as Ethiopia hit by worst drought in 40 years
GODE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Malnourished children are flooding into the paediatric ward of the main hospital in Ethiopia's Gode city...
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Nigeria conducts mass burial for victims of illegal refinery explosion
By Tife Owolabi IMO STATE, Nigeria (Reuters) - Dozens of charred bodies were buried in mass graves on Tuesday in...
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Tunisia detains crew of ship that sank off its coast this month
TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian judge detained seven crew members of a commercial ship that sank off the coast of...
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Lebanese cabinet orders military to investigate deadly migrant boat capsize
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's cabinet ordered the military court on Tuesday to investigate the capsize of a migrant boat after...
Read morePolish miner found alive in collapse that killed 6 others
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish rescue workers have reached a miner trapped underground since a tremor shook the Borynia-Zofiowka mine in...
Read moreThree killed in Russian kindergarten shooting
(Reuters) -An armed man opened fire at a kindergarten in Russia's central Ulyanovsk region on Tuesday, killing two children and...
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More than 26 migrants missing after dinghy capsizes off Spain’s Canary Islands
By Borja Suarez GRAN CANARIA, Spain (Reuters) - One migrant died and 26 were missing after their dinghy capsized in...
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Human activity is leading to more disasters-UN report
LONDON (Reuters) - Human activity is contributing to an increasing number of disasters, with 350 and 500 medium-sized or large...
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Death toll in migrant boats disaster off Tunisia rises to 20
TUNIS (Reuters) - The death toll from African migrant boats that sank off Tunisia at the weekend rose to 20...
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Funerals held in Lebanon’s Tripoli after migrant shipwreck, dozens still missing
(Removes extraneous word from lede) By Maya Gebeily TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - The families of migrants who died when their...
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Inquiries start into missing Japan tourist boat, with at least 11 dead
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) -Inquiries began into what caused the disappearance of a tour boat off Japan's northern coast...
Read moreSix dead in Poland’s second mining disaster in a week, says PM
WARSAW (Reuters) - The death toll in Poland's second mining disaster in the space of a week rose to six...
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Emotional farewell for ‘brave’ police diver who drowned in S.African floods
(Fixes story identifier) ETHEKWINI, South Africa (Reuters) -"Brave and fearless" is how colleagues remember South African police diver Busisiwe Mjwara,...
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Six dead in Tripoli boat capsizing, Lebanon minister says
TRIPOLI (Reuters) -Six people died when a boat capsized off the Lebanese coast of Tripoli overnight, including at least one...
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Search continues as 10 people from missing Japanese boat confirmed dead
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and David Dolan TOKYO (Reuters) -Ten people found by rescue workers on Sunday after a tour boat...
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At least one miner dead, six trapped after tremor in Polish coal mine
WARSAW (Reuters) - One miner was confirmed dead after a tremor at the Borynia-Zofiowka coal mine in Poland, and rescuers...
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