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A dog that was trapped for six days inside a house that collapsed last week in a landslide has been rescued, officials said. “My baby. My baby,” home owner Didi Fritts said when a person emerged from the house Thursday carrying her alert…
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At least seven people were killed and three were missing after a cliff collapsed onto boats carrying tourists on a lake in Brazil, authorities said Saturday. Rescue teams including a dive squad and members of the Brazilian Navy rushed to…
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Sudanese authorities said Wednesday rescue workers retrieved at least 31 bodies from a collapsed gold mine in West Kordofan province. The country’s state-run mining company said workers and villagers were still searching the Darsaya mine…
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The Lebanese pound hit record lows this week, trading at almost LBP29,000 to the US dollar, leading to an intervention from the Banque du Liban that allowed the exchange rate to drop to LBP27,000. This spurred self-employed professionals…
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The Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Alexander Novak, stated that the global oil market would have collapsed without the “OPEC +” group agreement, due to the excess production of black gold. In an interview with a Russian TV channel, the…
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Up to 100 people were missing after a luxury residential high-rise under construction in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos collapsed on Monday, trapping construction workers under a pile of concrete rubble, witnesses said. A body was…
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Reba McEntire had to be rescued by the fire department after a staircase collapsed in a building that she was touring. According to TMZ, the country icon and her boyfriend, Rex Linn, were touring an old building in Atoka, Okla., when it…
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Lebanon is home to the world’s cheapest Big Mac after the pound slumped in value, leaving it more than 70 percent undervalued against the US dollar, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. At 29,904 Lebanese pounds, a Big Mac is…
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The confirmed death toll in the collapse of a Miami-area condominium tower rose to 64 on Thursday after crews recovered the remains of 10 more people from the concrete and steel ruins of the building. A total of 76 people remain missing…
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Rescue workers digging feverishly for a fifth day Monday stressed that they could still find survivors in the rubble of a collapsed Florida condo building, a hope family members clung to even though no one has been pulled out alive since…
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