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The Dagestani regional governor visited the site of a weekend attack by Islamist militants, which killed 20 and injured another 26. The region observed the first of three official days of mourning on Monday following the attack – which took the lives of 15 police officers, and a 66-year-old Orthodox priest and set a church and synagogue on fire. 20 people were killed and and 26 were injured as a result of the attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent, according to the regional health minister Tatyana Belyaeva. The regional governor Sergei Melikov visited the church and synagogue in Derbent and spoke ...
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A landslide surged over a highway in central Ecuador on Sunday, killing at least seven people and leaving dozens more missing as heavy rains pummeled the country and caused rivers to overflow. It comes as heavy rains have drenched Ecuador and other parts of the region over the past several days. Authorities in the country say the flood of mud and debris ploughed down the hillside and hit three cars, two houses, and a bus in the Ecuadorian resort city of Baños. Rescuers were treating nine injured and had retrieved seven bodies from the disaster site, while 30 people were believed to be trapped ...
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At a press conference on Tuesday, the mayor of the Spanish town of Palma, Jaime Martínez, reported that the terrace that collapsed last Thursday at the Medusa Beach Club in Playa de Palma did not have the relevant municipal activity licence to host customers. According to statements quoted by Spanish broadcaster RTVE, the city council of the Mallorcan capital will hand over the reports compiled by different municipal departments to the National Police and the Public Prosecutor's Office, and will appear in the case if legal proceedings are opened against those allegedly responsible for the inci...
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A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations more than 2,000 people were believed to have been buried alive by Friday's landslide and has formally asked for international help. The government figure is roughly triple the UN estimate of 670 killed in the South Pacific island nation's mountainous interior. The remains of only six people have been recovered so far. Estimates of the casualties have varied widely since the disaster, and it remains unclear how officials determined the number of people affected. The International Organisation for Migration, which is working clos...
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Weeks of Russian strikes on Ukraine's power grid have forced leaders of the war-ravaged country to institute nationwide rolling blackouts. However, there are warnings shortages could worsen without the right defences for Ukraine, especially as demand spikes in late summer and freezing winters. Russian airstrikes targeting the grid since March have brought blackouts back to Kyiv, which hadn’t experienced them since the first year of the war. An strike in April damaged the Ukrainian capital's largest thermal power plant, while a massive attack on 8 May hit power generation and transmission facil...
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Massive floods in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state killed at least 60 people and another 101 were reported missing, according to Sunday's toll from local authorities. The state governor said he believed the death toll would only grow as emergency workers were finally able to reach places that were previously inaccessible. In the town of Feliz, 80 kilometres from the state capital, Porto Alegre, a significantly swollen river swept away a bridge that connected it with the neighbouring city of Linha Nova. The floods left a wake of devastation, including landslides, washed-out roads and c...
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Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least eight people, local officials said. At least 18 people were injured in the morning attack, the city's acting mayor Oleksandr Lomako said. Chernihiv is some 150 kilometres north of the capital, Kyiv, near the border with Russia and Belarus, and has a population of around 250,000 people. The latest Russian bombardment comes as the war between Russia and Ukraine stretches into its third year. Experts say that that the war has ...
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Alexandria (United States) (AFP) - Former hostages and relatives of victims are seeking justice, accountability and perhaps even some solace as the trial of a member of the brutal Islamic State (IS) kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" gets underway. Jury selection began on Tuesday in the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, accused of involvement in the murders of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and relief workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller. The 33-year-old Elsheikh, the most high-profile IS member to face justice in the United States, is charged with hostage-taking, ...
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New York (AFP) - Victims of Bernie Madoff, the mastermind behind the worst financial scam in history, will receive $488 million in additional payments through a victim fund, the US Justice Department said Thursday. The Madoff Victim Fund will disburse payments to more than 30,000 people around the world who were cheated out of their investments by the crooked financier between the 1970s and 2000s, the Department of Justice said in a statement. The operation marks the sixth time such payments have been made, bringing the total refunds to nearly $3.2 billion, according to the department. "That ...
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