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Nashville police announced that the singer and actress Shunka Ducoure, who played the blues singer Big Mama Thornton in this year's movie "Elvis", was found dead in her apartment. The police said in a statement, Thursday: "The body of…
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At least nine bodies have been found after a ferry sank off the coast of an Indonesian island due to bad weather, a search and rescue official said Thursday. The KM Cahaya Arafah capsized in waters off Indonesia’s Ternate island on…
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Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening at an Indiana mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said. The man entered the Greenwood Park Mall…
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A week of gang violence in Haiti’s capital has left at least 89 people dead, a rights group said Wednesday, as soaring prices, fuel shortages and gang warfare accelerate a brutal downward spiral in the security situation in Port-au-Prince.…
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A mass shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg’s Soweto township has killed at least 14 people and left three others in critical condition, according to police. Police say they are investigating reports that a group of men arrived in a…
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Russian rockets hit the eastern Ukraine town of Chasiv Yar, destroying a five-story apartment building and killing at least six people, the region’s governor said Sunday. Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region, said about three…
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Forty-six people were found dead and 16 others were taken to hospitals after a tractor-trailer rig containing suspected migrants was found Monday on a remote back road in southwest San Antonio, officials said. A city worker at the scene…
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Videos captured the moments of a stadium collapsing during a bullfighting event in Colombia, killing 4 people and injuring hundreds. The first video, filmed from a drone, shows the wrestling arena in El Espinal, central Colombia, where…
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At least 17 young people were found dead at a nightclub in a township in South Africa’s southern city of East London on Sunday, police said. “We got a report about 17 (people) that died in a local tavern in Scenery Park which is based in…
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Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinians and wounded eight others early Friday during a military operation in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The ministry did not say how the casualties occurred.…
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