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NEW YORK — Americans are looking back on the horror and legacy of 9/11, gathering Monday at memorials, firehouses, city halls and elsewhere to observe the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Commemorations…
LAHAINA, Hawaii — Ambulance and fire truck sirens wailed outside as Elsie Rosales stripped linens from king-sized mattresses at a beachfront resort in Lahaina. She tried to focus on the work, but was beset by dread: Had…
The earthquake that struck Morocco late Friday has killed more than 2,100 people, with the death toll expected to increase as rescuers reach hard-hit remote mountain areas. Here’s a look at the deadliest earthquakes over the past 25 years:…
AMIZMIZ, Morocco — People in Morocco slept in the streets of Marrakech for a third straight night as soldiers and international aid teams in trucks and helicopters began to fan into remote mountain towns hit hardest by…
MANILA, Philippines — Fear, on top of sadness and mourning, reigns in the Ompad household. Slain 15-year-old John Frances Ompad’s next-of-kin disclosed on Monday that they were still fearing for their safety following the shooting of the…
A Filipino crew member on the cruise ship Viking Mars died in a fall from the cruise ship while it was docked at the Port of Cromarty Firth in Scotland on Friday, Aug. 18. Wenceslao Esguerra Donasco,…
ALEXANDROUPOLIS, Greece—Eighteen burned bodies, possibly migrants, were found on Tuesday in a rural area in northern Greece where wildfires were burning out of control for a fourth day, authorities said, as gale force winds fanned blazes across…
The death toll in Hawaii’s wildfires rose to 99 and could double over the next 10 days, the state’s governor said Monday, as emergency personnel painstakingly scoured the incinerated landscape for more human remains. Last week’s inferno…
KAHULUI, Hawaii—The death toll from Maui’s wildfires rose to 53 on Thursday as the fast-moving conflagration that turned the resort town of Lahaina into smoldering ruins was 80-percent contained, officials said. The island that forms part of…
KAHULUI, Hawaii—Wildfires fanned by winds of a distant hurricane killed at least six people and devastated much of the resort city Lahaina on Hawaii’s Maui island on Wednesday, forcing thousands to evacuate as some fled into the ocean to…
MANILA, Philippines — Corruption, negligence, and safety protocol violations had combined in a deadly mix that resulted in the boat accident that claimed the lives of 27 people in Laguna de Bay two weeks ago. That was…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – A 9 year-old girl died after drowning while swimming with her siblings in a creek in Sitio Tiguib, Barangay Lagtang, Talisay City, Cebu on Tuesday morning, August 8,2023. The victim was identified as…
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