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Huge blast at illegal oil refinery in Nigeria kills scores of people, including children
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Abuja, Nigeria Women and children are among the scores of people killed in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in a border town in southern Nigeria, authorities say. "The fire occurred in an illegal bunkering sit...
Bus crash in Zimbabwe kills 35 churchgoers
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Thirty-five people have died after a bus carrying more than 100 members of the Zion Christian Church crashed Thursday night near the town of Chimanimani, in eastern Zimbabwe, according to the Zimbabwe Republic Polic...
NYC shooting outside Bronx school kills teen, injures two others
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The gunfire erupted just before 1:45 p.m. at the corner of East 156th Street and St Ann's Avenue outside University Heights Secondary School in the Bronx, the New York Police Department said. One suspect was standin...
Pennsylvania snow squall pileup kills 6, injures dozens of others
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Pennsylvania State Police announced Wednesday morning the crash killed six people. Initial reports stated three people had died, but the number of burning cars hampered authorities' ability to carry out a complete se...
ISIS attack kills two and injures six in Israel
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ISIS operatives killed two people and injured six in a shooting attack Sunday in the Israeli city of Hadera, some 31 miles north of Tel Aviv, Israeli officials said. The attack — the second of its kind in a week — ...
Boston bouncer stabs, kills Marine veteran after being denied reentry into bar
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Alvaro Larrama, 38, pleaded not guilty to murder Monday in the stabbing death of Daniel Martinez, 23, outside the Sons of Boston bar on Saturday, according to a statement from the office of Suffolk District Attorney ...
Russian strike kills 96-year-old Holocaust survivor in Ukraine
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A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, Borys Romanchenko, was killed Friday by a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Romanchenko's death was confirmed by the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial institute ...
Camel kills two people after escaping from a petting zoo in Tennessee
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A camel escaped from a petting zoo and killed two people in Tennessee Thursday, authorities said. Deputies received a call of a camel attacking people near Shirley Farms in Obion, the Obion County Sheriff's Office ...
Towns in Iowa look to recover after tornado kills at least 7, damages over 50 homes
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Hundreds of volunteers helped pick up debris and give out food and water to victims Sunday. Efforts to clean up were stalled Monday after a winter storm left 3-4 inches of snow on the ground. The people whose homes ...
Ukraine military kills a top Russian general
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The circumstances of the 47-year-old’s death were not immediately clear, but the Kremlin-backed Pravda said he was killed "during a special operation in Ukraine." According to Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency, R...
California church shooting: Dad kills 3 kids, turns gun on himself, police say
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The gunman killed three kids before turning the gun on himself around 5 p.m. at an Arden-Arcade area church in Sacramento. Those killed were pronounced dead at the scene and authorities believe the incident was domes...
Miami Beach restaurant crash kills 1, injures 6 when ‘elderly woman’ crashes car into outdoor dining area
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One person died and six others were hospitalized when an "elderly woman" botched her parallel parking attempt and revved her car into an outdoor café in Miami Beach Thursday night. "Preliminary information gathered i...
Search efforts resume in Colombia after landslide kills 15, injures dozens
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Fifteen people have died and four are missing following a landslide in Colombia, the country's disaster management agency said Wednesday, with search efforts set to continue. The landslide hit the western city of Pe...
Afghanistan earthquake kills at least 22 people
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An earthquake rocked western Afghanistan on Monday, killing more than 20 people and destroying hundreds of homes, local authorities said. The 5.6 magnitude tremor shook the western province of Badghis, bordering Turk...
Maryland man hits, kills wife with SUV outside Capital One Bank: police
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Alka Himanshu Tanna, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was coming out of the bank on New Hampshire Avenue around noon and was crossing a parking lot when she was hit by an oncoming vehicle, the Montgomery County Police Dep...
Snowstorm kills at least 16 tourists, with hundreds stranded, at Pakistani resort
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At least 16 people have been killed in a snowstorm in the northeastern Pakistan resort town of Murree. The tourists, who were stuck in a traffic jam, suffered from a "food crisis" after being stranded, Interior Mini...