Tag: deadly
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Climate change means deadly heat for Europe : NPR
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People in the streets of Rom in June 2022. Heat-related deaths in Europe have increased by about 30% in the last 20 years, according to a new report. Alessandra Tarantino/AP hide caption toggle caption Alessandra Tarantino/AP People in the streets of Rom in June 2022. Heat-related deaths in Europe have increased by about 30% in…
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Israel Dismisses 2 Officers Over Deadly Drone Strikes On Aid Workers In Gaza
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Friday that it dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in drone strikes in Gaza that killed seven aid workers on a food-delivery mission, saying they had mishandled critical information and violated the army’s rules of engagement. The findings of a retired general’s investigation into…
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Deadly Moscow Attack Shatters Putin’s Security Promise to Russian People
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The fact that Mr. Putin apparently ignored a warning from the United States about a potential terrorist attack is likely to deepen the skepticism. Instead of acting on the warnings and tightening security, he dismissed them as “provocative statements.” “All this resembles outright blackmail and an intention to intimidate and destabilize our society,” Mr. Putin…
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Suspected tornadoes prove deadly, leave trail of destruction in 3 Midwestern states
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A suspected tornado in western Ohio proved deadly Thursday night, authorities said, part of a storm system that also unleashed apparent twisters in parts of Indiana and Kentucky and left tens of thousands of homes and businesses without power. The one in Ohio hit near the southern end of Indian Lake, leaving at least two…
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“Martyr!” Plays Its Subject for Laughs but Is Also Deadly Serious
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A novel with the title “Martyr!” arrives on the scene preloaded and explosive. The word is fraught, even more so now than when the book’s author, the Iranian American poet Kaveh Akbar, chose it. There’s humor in the exclamation mark, but there’s something else, too. It signals that Akbar is fascinated with words in action,…
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Prisoners in Texas and Florida face biggest risk of increasingly deadly heat | US prisons
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Deadly heat is threatening the lives of America’s ageing incarcerated population, who are trapped in increasingly hot and humid conditions as the climate emergency escalates, new research has found. Almost 45% of detention facilities on the US mainland suffered a rise in hazardous heat days between 1982 and 2020, with the south most severely affected.…
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‘F—ing lunatics’: Deadly Jordan attacks spur open GOP feud
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The response to the attacks in Jordan reflects the escalating feud between the GOP’s more traditional foreign policy hawks and its ascendant isolationist-leaning wing, even as both sides coalesce around Trump’s bid to return to the White House. And it comes as the latter group — urged on by Trump and wary of prolonged foreign…
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Maui wildfire: last of 100 known victims of deadly blaze identified | Hawaii fires
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Hawaii officials said Friday that they had identified the last of the 100 known victims of the wildfire that destroyed Lahaina in August. The victim was Lydia Coloma, 70, Maui police said. Identifying those who perished in the deadliest wildfire in the US in more than a century has been a long, arduous process. Forensic…
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East and West coasts prepare for new rounds of snow and ice as deadly storms pound US
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Storms that have turned roads into icy death traps, frozen people to death from Oregon to Tennessee and even sent a plane skidding off a taxiway were expected to sock both coasts with another round of weather chaos on Friday. New York City — which only on Tuesday saw its first significant…
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Authorties release video of deadly shooting inside Brockton hibachi restaurant
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The Plymouth County District Attorney’s office released surveillance video Saturday of a deadly shooting inside a Brockton hibachi restaurant the night before. Video filmed inside the Hibachi Sushi Supreme Buffet Friday night shows the shooter striding through the crowded restaurant full of families of children before stopping and opening fire on a man dining at…
