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At least 950 killed and 600 other injured after magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocked remote parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan.
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At least 950 killed and 600 other injured after magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocked remote parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan.
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More than 109 people were killed overnight in an explosion at an illegal oil refining depot on the border of Nigeria`s Rivers and Imo states, a local government official and an environmental group said.
Torrential rains and flooding have killed at least 10 people at a mining camp in mountainous northwest Colombia, with several others reported missing, authorities said Thursday.
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At least four people have been killed and 94 injured after a powerful earthquake hit northeastern Japan, shaking buildings some 275 kilometres (170 miles) away in Tokyo and leaving hundreds of thousands without power including in the capital.
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An Atlantic storm has battered Northwestern Europe with record winds of up to 196km (122 miles) per hour, killing at least eight people, knocking out power for tens of thousands, and shredding the roof of London’s O2 Arena.
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At least 82 people have died in the northeastern United States in the aftermath of hurricane Ida, CBS reported on Wednesday.
The death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday climbed to 1,419, authorities announced on Monday.
A new 5.8-magnitude quake struck Haiti, becoming the strongest aftershock in the wake of Saturday's 7.2-magnitude eathquake that wrought havoc in the island nation’s southern peninsula, killing at least 304 people.