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Casablanca building collapse kills three

Casablanca building collapse kills three

Aug  07, –  At least 24 people were injured in the tragedy when a four-storey building in the Sbata district came down on Friday evening, a statement from the Casablanca municipality said earlier. Moroccan rescuers Saturday found the body of a woman trapped under a collapsed building in Casablanca, raising the death toll to three […]

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22 feared dead as bridge collapses in western India

22 feared dead as bridge collapses in western India

Aug 03, – Rescuers had not found the buses or any survivors hours after the single-lane bridge on the Mumbai-Goa highway collapsed about midnight Tuesday, said Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra state’s chief minister. Two buses plunged into a flooded river after an old bridge collapsed in western India, leaving at least 22 people missing and feared […]

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Extremists attack on police center in Somalia kills 5

Extremists attack on police center in Somalia kills 5

July  31, – Four attackers, including two suicide bombers, were also killed in the attack suspected to be by the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, said police Capt. Mohamed Hussein. Extremists in Somalia attacked a heavily fortified police center in the capital Sunday, killing at least five people before security forces ended the assault, police said. […]

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floods kill at least 52 people in India

floods kill at least 52 people in India

July  30, – Twenty-six deaths have been reported in Assam, where incessant downpours have damaged roads and snapped telephone cables in several districts, a government statement said. Indian authorities on Saturday tried to rescue thousands of people stranded in flooded villages after a week of heavy rain killed at least 52 people and uprooted tens […]

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Bangladesh police say 9 militants killed in raid in Dhaka

Bangladesh police say 9 militants killed in raid in Dhaka

July 26, – Dhaka’s police chief, A.K.M. Shahidul Hoque, said authorities were investigating to see which group the men belonged to, but that evidence showed they likely were from the banned local group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh. JMB is blamed for a July 1 attack in Dhaka’s Gulshan diplomatic area in which 20 people, including Italians […]

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13 killed in three blasts in northeast Nigeria- medics

13 killed in three blasts in northeast Nigeria- medics

Jul 17, – Two people were killed in twin explosions that rocked the city, before a third moments later went off near a mosque, leaving another 11 dead, the latest attacks in the region where Boko Haram Islamists have waged an insurgency for six years. Thirteen people were killed on Friday in a triple attack […]

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Lebanon detains ‘wife and son’ of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

Lebanon detains ‘wife and son’ of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

Dec 02, – The wife of the elusive Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdad, has been reportedly detained at the Lebanese-Syrian border, Lebanese security officials said on Tuesday. Baghdadi’s wife was held along with one of his sons. She is Syrian and is the ISIS leader’s second wife, Al Arabiya […]

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Syrian air raid kills 18, including ‘American jihadist’

Syrian air raid kills 18, including ‘American jihadist’

Sep 05, – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday’s strike destroyed a building being used as a headquarters and a prison by IS militants in Deir Ezzor province. The death toll from a Syrian government raid on an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) stronghold in eastern Syria has risen to 18, […]

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Obama says will ‘degrade and destroy’ Islamic State

Obama says will ‘degrade and destroy’ Islamic State

Sep 03, – He added destroying the militant group will take time because of the power vacuum in Syria, the abundance of battle hardened fighters that grew out of al-Qaeda in the Iraqi war, and the need to build coalitions, including with local Sunni communities. The United States plans to fight Islamic State until it […]

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Explosion fells building outside Paris, killing at least 2

Explosion fells building outside Paris, killing at least 2

Aug 31, – An 8-year-old child died in the building’s collapse, and firefighters found an unconscious 80-year-old woman in the debris who died while being taken out, fire department spokesman Gabriel Plus said. A four-story building in a Paris suburb collapsed after an explosion on Sunday morning, killing a child and an elderly woman, and […]

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