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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Part of a four-lane freeway bridge over a river in a rural area north of Seattle collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles and people into the frigid water below, authorities said. The collapse on Interstate 5 over the Skagit River happened at about 7pm local time between the towns of Mount Vernon and Burlington, 90km north of Seattle, Washington State Patrol spokesman Trooper Mark Francis said. “I’ve got reports of vehicles and people in the water,” Francis said. He added that he did not know if anyone was injured. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A woman who challenged knife-wielding assailants suspected of hacking to death a British soldier in London on Wednesday said she intervened because “it was better having them the weapons aimed on one person”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British police shot and wounded two men after a man thought to be a serving soldier was killed outside a London barracks, in an attack Prime Minister David Cameron called “truly shocking”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Rescuers have recovered all 28 bodies from a collapsed underground room inside the giant US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia’s province of Papua. Thirty-eight workers were undergoing safety training inside the Big Gossan facility when the roof collapsed May 14. Ten injured miners were rescued. A statement from the mine operator PT Freeport Indonesia said its Emergency Response Team recovered and identified the last victim early Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Faced with external and internal problems, Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou cancelled a long-planned event on Monday, marking the first anniversary of his second inauguration. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents. The 3-km wide tornado tore through town of Moore outside Oklahoma City, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Buy too much rice in Hong Kong and “you could end up in jail”, Chinese media warned tourists in the wake of the Guangzhou cadmium scandal. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s premier will pay his respects on Tuesday to the family of an Indian doctor who died treating Chinese troops more than 70 years ago, becoming a rare symbol of friendship between the two nations. Li Keqiang, like Chinese leaders before him, will take time out of his busy India visit to meet relatives of Dwarkanath Kotnis, who provided emergency medical aid for four years during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The powerful tornado, rated the second highest strength level of EF4 and packing winds of up to 320km/h, touched down at midafternoon and devastated a wide area of the town. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least 14 people including a senior local politician, officials said. Emergency services rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital after the bomber, who was wearing a police uniform, blew himself up in the centre of Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province. “I collected information from different hospitals and the death toll is 14. Another nine people are wounded,” said Zubair Akbary, the provincial public health director. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Tornadoes ravaged portions of Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. The tornado in Shawnee was one of several that touched down in the nation’s midsection on Sunday. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian troops backed by Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Sunday entered Qusayr, a strategic rebel stronghold linking Damascus to the coast, a day after President Bashar al-Assad insisted he would not step aside. The advance came as Assad’s opponents warned his regime’s “barbaric and destructive” assault on Qusayr could torpedo US-Russian attempts to organise a conference on ending more than two years of bloodshed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Washington County director of emergency management Pokey Harris said no fatalities had been reported but about 50 to 60 people are injured. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> DAMASCUS, Virginia (AP) — Emergency official: 50 to 60 injured in US parade crash, 3 flown by helicopter; no fatalities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. The United Nations health agency said the four deaths were from cases that had already been identified in laboratories. Since May 8, there have been no new cases of infection with H7N9, it added. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Time was running out for New Year celebrations in a darkened Kwun Tong housing development a few years ago. Electricity supply to Tsui Ping Estate had been cut shortly after 9pm when smoke was seen coming from switches in the ground-floor transformer room. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Sixty-two people were injured after a Light Rail Transit train derailed in Tin Shui Wai on Friday afternoon. At least three received serious injuries and were rushed to Tuen Mun Hospital. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Time-lapse imaging which takes thousands of pictures of developing embryos can boost the success rate of IVF, according to British research.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nigeria’s military on Wednesday announced the “massive”deployment of troops to its restive northeast, after the president declared a state of emergency in areas where Islamist insurgents have seized territory. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Air India flight to Bangalore was diverted to another city after the pilot returned from a toilet break and found the door to the cockpit jammed shut, the state-run carrier said on Tuesday. The flight left Delhi for Bangalore on Monday but the plane had to be diverted to Bhopal in central India when the pilot realised he could not get back to the controls. Air India said “all efforts to open the door, even from inside by the co-pilot, failed”. The co-pilot was forced to divert the flight to Bhopal where the door was repaired by ground maintenance engineers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Bridge collapses in Washington state, sending cars into river
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Part of a four-lane freeway bridge over a river in a rural area north of Seattle collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles and people into the frigid water below, authorities said. The collapse on Interstate 5 over the Skagit River happened at about 7pm local time between the towns of Mount Vernon and Burlington, 90km north of Seattle, Washington State Patrol spokesman Trooper Mark Francis said. “I’ve got reports of vehicles and people in the water,” Francis said. He added that he did not know if anyone was injured. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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