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Italian bridge collapse sends cars plunging, killing 26

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MILAN, August 15: A 51-year-old highway bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa collapsed in a driving rain Tuesday, killing at least 26 people

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40 children killed in Yemen bus strike: new Red Cross toll

August 14: Forty children were among 51 people killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen, the Red Cross said in a new toll

Taiwan
Nine killed in Taiwan hospice blaze

TAIPEI, August 14: Nine people were killed and 30 injured in a blaze that broke out early Monday at a hospice for the terminally ill near Taiwan’s capital Taipei, fire

US
Newest US sanctions against Russia hit an economic nerve

WASHINGTON, August 13: Russia typically brushes off new US sanctions. Not this time. The Trump administration announcement of export restrictions in response to accusations Moscow used a nerve agent to

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V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 85

LONDON, August 12: V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose precise and lyrical writing in such novels as “A Bend in the River” and “A House for Mr. Biswas” and

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7 killed in rebel attack amid Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak

CONGO, August 11: Suspected rebels killed seven civilians in an overnight attack in northeastern Congo, a local official said Saturday, highlighting the threat to efforts to contain the latest Ebola

NASA
Last-minute technical problem delays NASA’s flight to sun

CAPE CANAVERAL, August 11: A last-minute technical problem Saturday delayed NASA’s unprecedented flight to the sun. The early morning launch countdown was halted with just one-minute, 55 seconds remaining, keeping

Earthquake
Third strong earthquake shakes Lombok as death toll tops 300

INDONESIA, August 9: The Indonesian island of Lombok was shaken by a third big earthquake in little more than a week Thursday as the official death toll from the most

Israeli launches scores of airstrikes as Gaza fire persists

JERUSALEM, August 9: Israeli warplanes struck dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip and three people were reported killed there, while Palestinian militants from the territory fired scores of rockets

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Venezuela rallies Maduro supporters after thwarted attack

VENEZUELA, August 7: Pro-government factions mobilized thousands of Venezuelans dressed in red — the color of the ruling socialist party — onto the streets of the capital on Monday in