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6 Children Killed In Tragic School Bus Crash in Tennessee

Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkson told the media that five were killed on the scene with one dying at the hospital later after a school bus collided with a tree in Tennessee, according to CBS News. Police say that the ages of the students involved in the crash ranged from kindergarten through fifth grade as Police Chief Fred Fletcher said 35 students were on board

'Thunderstorm asthma': Two die and thousands fall sick as freak phenomenon hits Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne A major storm that hit Melbourne on Monday night appears to have caused a mass outbreak of an illness known as “thunderstorm asthma”. The Age reports that an unprecedented number of people fell acutely ill on Monday after the storm struck at around 6pm. Two people in Melbourne’s west died, including a man waiting 30 minutes for an ambulance. Other emergency services

President of Bolivia Addresses Human Rights Council

Intense Drought Drives Bolivia to Declare National Emergency

Bolivian President Evo Morales has declared a national emergency over a lack of water as national and local governments attempt to battle the problem on Monday, according to Al Jazeera. The high-altitude capital La Paz receives water for only three hours every three days since reservoirs in the city are almost dry with Morales saying Bolivians "have to be prepared for the

Treemap of the US Presidential Elections of 2012 using the number of ballots received per county and state to calculate the area and the share of votes for the predominant recipient to determine the color (with Obama in blue and Romney in red).USA

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Federal Judges: Wisconsin's GOP Redistricting Maps Unconstitutional

Federal judges Monday struck down state house district maps drawn in 2011 by Wisconsin's Republican controlled legislature as blatantly partisan. ...

This Thursday Sept. 1, 2016 file photo, provided by the Syria Press Center (SPC), an anti-government media group, shows civilians leaving the town of Suran, in Hama province, Syria.

UN says nearly 1 million Syrians besieged; US names, shames commanders

A burnt tent for displaced people is pictured after airstrikes on the outskirts of the rebel-held town of Atareb in Aleppo province, Syria, on August 4, 2016. UNITED NATIONS: The number of besieged Syrians has more than doubled over the past year to nearly one million, the United Nations aid chief told the Security Council on Monday, as the United States named 13 Syrian

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China says 3,000 flee Myanmar after fighting along border

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is giving shelter to more than 3,000 people who have fled Myanmar after fighting between the government and rebels, and stray shells have fallen inside Chinese territory causing minor damage but no deaths, state media said on Tuesday.

Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at Fountain Park in Fountain Hills, Arizona, 19 March 2016

Trump Lays Out First 100 Days: Opting Out of TPP But Silent on Many Campaign Promises

President-elect Donald Trump released a three minute video detailing his plans beginning on day one of his inauguration in January 2016, according to The Los Angeles Times. In his first extensive public comments since winning the election, Trump was strangely silent on a number of issues that fired up his campaign including building a wall on the Mexican border, repealing

Sailors in lineup on board U.S. navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan which arrives as some U.S. flag-shaped balloons are hoisted to welcome them at the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. An American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan has entered its new home in Japan's Yokosuka naval port, replacing its predecessor USS George Washington. The arrival Thursday comes just as Tokyo tries to deepen defense ties with the US under new security law.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

College bans US flag citing ‘hate-based violence’ post-Trump victory

A Massachusetts college has decided to remove an American flag amid struggles to stop “hate-based violence” that escalated since President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. The flag was initially flown at half-staff, but that only triggered more disputes. ...

Rescuers work at the site after 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track near Pukhrayan village in Kanpur Dehat district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Monday, Nov. 21, 2016.

2016-11-22
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Why India's train network is so deadly

(CNN)India's deadliest rail accident since 2010 has once again pulled to the fore the issue of how the country's vast rail network is funded and maintained. At least 148 were killed in the early hours of Sunday morning when a packed train traveling from the central city of Indore to Patna in the north east went off the track. "All of a sudden there was a massive jerk," said one

Workers look at a floodgate under construction after tsunami warning was lifted after 7.4 powerful earhquake in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan

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Offshore Quake Causes Tsunamis, Nuclear Worries in Japan

Coastal residents fled to higher ground as a powerful earthquake sent a series of moderate tsunamis toward Japan's northeastern shore Tuesday and fueled concerns about the Fukushima nuclear power plant destroyed by a much larger tsunami five year ago ...

The earthquake destroyed Elms homestead that killed resident Louis Edgar in Monday's 7.8-magnitude quake is seen near Kaikoura, New Zealand, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016.

2 strong quakes strike New Zealand; no reports of damage

Two strong earthquakes rattled different parts of New Zealand on Tuesday but there were no initial reports of serious damage or injuries. The first magnitude 5.6 quake struck off the coast of New

Kanye West performs during the closing ceremony of the Pan Am Games Sunday, July 26, 2015, in Toronto.

Reports say Kanye West has been hospitalized in Los Angeles

Kanye West has been hospitalized after abruptly canceling the last 21 dates of his national tour, according to reports from several media outlets. Citing anonymous law enforcement sources and West representatives, the media outlets reported that the hip-hop superstar was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon because of stress and

An Iraqi special forces soldier, right, speaks with a civilian man as they coordinate the fleeing of civilian people at an al-Tahrir front line neighborhood in Mosul city, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.

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'I was a believer': Face-to-face with ISIS inside an Iraqi prison

Northern Iraq (CNN)For Abdelrahman al-Azy the task was brutal but the justifications were simple. As a member of ISIS, he must follow the instructions of his local emir or commander. The order: to help kill a man in cold blood. As directed, al-Azy drove a fellow ISIS militant to the home of a SWAT member, an elite unit of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service. The 23-year-old sat

File - Brandishing the four-fingered symbol of the Rabaah that refers to the deadly dispersal of supporters of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in August 2013, senior Muslim brotherhood leader Essam el-Erian, center left, and their spiritual leader Mohammed Badie, center right, appear in a courtroom cage accompanied by a policeman in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014.

Egypt court overturns life sentence against ex-president Morsi

Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned Tuesday a life sentence against deposed President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered a retrial in the case that revolves around accusations of espionage with Palestinian group Hamas. ...

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim addresses lawmakers at the parliament a day after he announced the details of an agreement reached with Israel, in Ankara

Turkey withdraws law that would have pardoned rapists who marry their victims

Ankara: Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday the government was withdrawing a controversial bill that could overturn men's convictions for child-sex assault, after an angry public backlash. Critics had said the bill -- which would allow the release from jail of sex assault convicts if they marry their victims -- would legitimise rape. Thousands took to the

File - Palestinian children sit on a cart at a UN distribution center (UNRWA) in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip on December 3, 2013.

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Israel slammed over its 'war on NGOs'

Instances of permit confiscation and lengthy interrogation by Israeli security are on the rise, says UN official. ...

The President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan listenning carefully theRussian President Vladimir Putin during their discussion in St Petersbourg, Russia

Recep Tayyip Erdogan 'disillusioned' with Turkey-U.S. relations

Ankara has become "disillusioned" with U.S.-Turkish ties after a series of military and diplomatic decisions by Washington that have undermined the country's security in the region, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. The Pentagon's decision to back Kurdish paramilitary forces in the fight against the Islamic State, to the White ... ...

A man rides his bike on a street as smoke rises from burning oil fields in Qayara, some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016.

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Iraqi Troops Arrive Just Ahead of Militiamen in Sunni Town; 132 Killed in Iraq

Former human shields warn of a desperate situation in Islamic State-controlled areas of Mosul. Iraqi forces have yet to penetrate the older, urban parts of the city west of the Tigris River. There, ISIS/Daesh have brought in thousands of human shields to stave off attacks by Iraqi forces. The few who have managed to trickle out describe people sleeping in the streets, a lack of

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barak Obama

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Obama: I Will Criticize Trump if ‘Necessary or Helpful’

In a Sunday press conference in Lima, Peru, President Barack Obama said he may not follow former President George W. Bush’s lead

A South Korean protester wearing a mask listens to the address during a rally calling for South Korean President Park Geun-hye to step down in Seoul, South Korea

S Korea's opposition parties move towards impeaching president

SEOUL: South Korea's opposition People's Party will start collecting signatures for an impeachment motion against President Park Geun-hye, while the main opposition Democratic Party will review the conditions for impeachment, party spokesmen said on Monday. South Korean prosecutors said on Sunday they believe Park was an accomplice in an influence-peddling scandal that has

Plans Proceed To Refurbish Chernobyl Patch With Solar Farm

Nepal Celebrates Restoration Of Historic Shrine Damaged In 2015 Earthquake

[VIDEO]: Judge At Naturalization Ceremony: If You Don't Like Trump, Go To Another Country

Ancient Mummified Crocodile Found To Be Harboring Dozens Of Babies

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Germany Seeking Extradition Of Man Suspected Of 1992 Racially Motivated Shooting

Was Japan's 6.9M Earthquake Linked To The 2011 Megathrust Disaster?

Report: Three Indian Soldiers Killed Along Line Of Control In Kashmir