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French Alps cable cars rescue due to resume. Southern France
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Thousands of migrants rescued off Libya 
About 6,500 migrants have been rescued off Libya, the Italian coastguard says, in one of the biggest operations of its kind to date
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Museums to donate Sunday revenue to quake relief |
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Italy earthquake: Day of national mourning for victims |
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Emergency declared as hopes for more survivors fade |
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Italy earthquake: Search for survivors as death toll tops 240
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Earthquake leaves at least 250 dead in central Italy Map of Accumoli Italy A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck central Italy, leaving at least 250 people dead and others trapped under rubble, Italian officials said
| Its epicentre was close to Accumoli, with its hypocentre at a depth of 4.2 km,[2] approximately 75 km (47 mi) southeast of Perugia and 45 km (28 mi) north of L'Aquila, in an area near the borders of the Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzo and Marche regions
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13 dead, 6 injured as fire hits bar in French city. France
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25 people died in train collision Southern Italy: Many more people are injured and some are in a critical condition. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, has visited the site
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Louvre to close as Seine rises further Paris: The world's most visited museum, the Louvre in Paris, is to close on Friday amid worsening flooding caused by days of torrential rain
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European migrant crisis: Shipwrecks 'kill up to 700 migrants' Map of Mediterranean Sea Libya  Libya: Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says | |
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Capsized boat horror caught on camera |
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EgyptAir flight: Search intensifies for missing plane |
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EgyptAir crash: Plane wreckage found near Greek island. Greece
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EgyptAir Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo 'disappears from radar' Map of Cairo| 56 passengers, 7 crew members and 3 security personnel on board Flight MS804. The Airbus A320 was flying at 11,300m when it went missing | |
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Doctor wanted to hospitalize Germanwings co-pilot before 2015 crash |
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Germany train crash: Several killed near Bavarian town
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10 dead as French TGV high-speed train derails in east. France
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Romanian nightclub fire leaves 27 dead 162 more were injured when a fire broke out in Bucharest late Friday. There were 300 to 400 people in the Colectiv, a large room with a stag...
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Libya boats capsize off Zuwara carrying hundreds |
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Austrian police work to recover bodies from lorry |
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Up to 3,000 migrants rescued near Libya coast |
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11 died after single-seat jet crashes at airshow England: Hawker Hunter fighter jet participating in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton, came down on a highway where it hit several vehicles as it cr...
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MH370: Reunion debris is from missing plane, says Najib |
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'Plane stowaway' body found on Richmond roof |
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Balcony collapse in California kills 6 people |
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Mediterranean migrants crisis: EU triples funding |
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Italy arrests two over migrant boat sinking |
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Hundreds feared dead after Mediterranean boat capsizes |
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Muslim migrants threw Christians overboard |
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Hundreds of migrants feared drowned off Libya Map of Mediterranean sea Libya| About 400 migrants are feared drowned after their boat capsized, survivors have told Save the Children. The Italian coast guard had rescued 144. More than 8,000 have bee... | |
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Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot suicidal at one time |
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Germanwings co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane' |
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Pilot was locked out of cockpit moments before plane crashed |
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Germanwings airliner 4U 9525 crashes in French Alps Map of Digne France| Southern France: Airbus A320 airliner has crashed in the French Alps. The flight 4U 9525 had been en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf with 144 passengers and 6 crew. No one is expected to have survived. The plane crashed after an 8-minute descent. ... | |
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French Olympic medalists filming reality show among 10 dead |
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Italy takes over 'migrant ship' after distress scare |
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Scotland confirms case of Ebola |
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Italy ferry fire: Evacuation hampered by winds |
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Young tiger prowling near Disneyland Paris |
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Total oil company CEO dies in Moscow plane crash |
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Russia denies submarine incident off Sweden |
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Nurse infected with Ebola in Spain |
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500 feared dead after boat sunk off Malta coast
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Costa Concordia makes final voyage |
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MH17 victims arrive in Netherlands
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10 die in flooding in Bulgaria after heavy rain |
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German caver Johann Westhauser surfaces |
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Two aboard missing Malaysia Airlines jet traveling with stolen passports. Italy
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Storm with 106-mph gusts slams flooded Britain. England
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Giraffe killed despite campaign. Denmark
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Apollo Theatre roof collapses in London
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Deadly storm and tidal surge batter northern Europe. Hamburg
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Helicopter crashes into Glasgow pub. Scotland
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50 dead, including 3 firefighters, after supermarket roof collapse 
Latvia: A criminal investigation has begun after the roof of a supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga collapsed, Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis has...
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Hurricane-force winds batter northern Europe. England
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Hundreds feared dead in Italy shipwreck. Southern Italy
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Costa Concordia ship set upright. Italy
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Italy coach plunge 'leaves 36 dead'. Southern Italy
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At least 77 die as Spanish train derails in Galicia Map of Galicia Spain Spain: A train has derailed in north-western Spain, killing at least 60 people and injuring many more. It is the worst rail accident in Spain in four decades
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At least 6 dead in train derailment near Paris |
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'Snowden suspicion' diverts flight. Austria
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Floods sweep through Central Europe |
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Man kills himself in front of tourists at Notre Dame Cathedral |
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Italian fashion boss Missoni missing off Venezuela |
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Pilots blamed for Air France disaster |
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Deadly earthquake hits northern Italy |
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| May.19 |
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Deadly earthquake hits heritage sites |
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Cruise captain under house arrest |
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Cruise ship runs aground in Italy Map of Giglio island Italy At least six people are reported dead after the Costa Concordia carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy
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Outbreak is new form of E. coli |
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E. coli infections kill 6, sicken hundreds |
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Snow paralyses transport in W. Europe |
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Hungarian sludge reaches Danube |
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Festival stampede kills 19 |
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BP says oil has stopped leaking |
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Ash closes airports in England, Ireland |
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Child is sole Libya jet crash survivor
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Volcanic ash wreaking travel chaos 
Iceland: A cloud from an Icelandic volcano continued to blanket Europe, shutting down airspace in 23 countries and causing misery for millions of travelers
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Polish president died in plane crash Map of Smolensk Russia 
Russia: Tupolev 154, carrying Lech Kaczynski, has crashed near a Russian airport. 87 people were killed; there were no survivors
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Storm batters Europe, at least 51 dead |
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Flood rescuers search streets and houses |
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Madeira floods and mudslides kill 43 |
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Eurostar trains stuck in tunnel |
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Fire threat empties Athens suburb
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Helicopter and plane collide, 9 died |
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14 die in Italian Riviera train-gas blast |
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Air France plane crashed Map of Northeastern Brazil Northeastern Brazil: The Airbus A330-200 with 228 people aboard reported electrical problems in stormy weather before it lost contact
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Death toll rises to 207 in quake |
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About 300 dead in strong quake Map of L%27Aquila Italy Italy: A 6.3-magnitude earthquake jolted central Italy, after a series of about a hundred minor tremors since January
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Nine killed as Turkish plane crashes |
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153 dead in Madrid plane crash
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63 died from forest fires Greece: The emergency workers continue to find the bodies of people burned to death by forest fires that are raging in the south of the country
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Farm infected with foot-and-mouth |
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UK fights worst floods in 60 years |
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Warming 'very likely' human-made |
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47 dead as storm batters Europe |
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Deadly bird flu spreads in Europe |
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Hall collapse traps many. 66 died |
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Rink collapse kills 15 |
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Apartment fire kills 16 |
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Floods cause havoc across Europe |
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Cypriot jet crashes; 121 dead |
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Deadly airport roof collapse |
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10,000 dead in heat wave. France
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Children killed in earthquake |
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Prague floods surge to new peaks |
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71 dead in midair collision |
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Concorde crash kills 113 |
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58 immigrants suffocated in Dutch truck |
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MS Estonia disaster A cruise ferry built in 1979/80 at the German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg
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| Mar. 27, 1977 |
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Tenerife airport disaster Spain: The fatal runway collision between two Boeing 747s killed 583 people. KLM flight tried to take off while the Pan Am flight was still on the ...
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Turkish Airlines Flight 981 disaster. France
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Explosion of the Hindenburg New Jersey: The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock. Of the 97 people on board, 35 died
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Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment. Southern France
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| Apr. 14, 1912 |
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S.S. Titanic sank Maritime Provinces: RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocea after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage
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1908 Messina earthquake. Southern Italy
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| Feb. 15, 1898 |
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U.S.S. Maine blown up 
Cuba: The Maine is best known for her loss in Havana Harbor. She exploded without warning, and sank quickly, killing nearly three quarters of her crew
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| Feb. 2, 1709 |
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Rescue of Alexander of Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe) |
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| Feb. 26, 1531 |
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Earthquake at Lisbon kills 30,000 persons. Portugal
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