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Washington (AFP) - The body of the sixth and final victim who died after a container ship struck a bridge in the US city of Baltimore has been recovered, Maryland state authorities said Tuesday. The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a major transit route into the busy port of Baltimore, collapsed on March 26 when the Dali container ship lost power and collided into a support column, killing six roadway construction workers. The victim was identified by authorities as 37-year-old Jose Mynor Lopez, a construction worker from Baltimore, Maryland, who had been working on the bridge when it collapsed. "Tod...
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Kahului (United States) (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Monday told survivors of a horrific blaze in Hawaii the government would not abandon them as he toured the scene of the worst wildfire the United States has seen in over a century. The 80-year-old donned the mantle of comforter-in-chief as he saw for himself the devastation wreaked on Lahaina by a fire that killed at least 114 people as it levelled the historic town. "I know the feeling that many people in this town, this community (have); that hollow feeling you have in your chest like you're being sucked into a black hole," he said as he...
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Geneva (AFP) - A "perfect storm" of overlapping crises forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, sending the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said on Thursday. An unprecedented 71.1 million internally displaced people (IDPs) were registered in 2022 -- up 20 percent from a year earlier -- amid mass displacement for Russia's war in Ukraine, as well as by the monsoon floods that drenched Pakistan. A full 60.9 million new internal displacements were meanwhile reported in 2022, with some people forced to flee multiple times during the year, ...
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Boulder Creek (United States) (AFP) - Jason and Shannon Phleger had just rebuilt their wildfire-ravaged home when it was wrecked again by one of the powerful storms that swept through California last week. Even for a state almost perpetually suffering from drought, the parade of biblical disasters is too much to bear. "When I heard the news, my heart just dropped; it was heartbreaking," said Shannon Phleger of the moment she learned heavy winds had brought a redwood tree crashing down onto her house. Near-record rains have pulverized much of California over the last few weeks, as nine storm sy...
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Washington (AFP) - Two deadly fires that killed dozens of people in recent days have underscored the dilapidation and scarcity of housing available to poor Americans who rely on government assistance to afford a place to live. A blaze blamed on a portable electric heater killed 17 people including eight children at a high-rise apartment building in New York's working-class Bronx borough Sunday, days after 12 people died when a fire broke out in a public housing unit in Philadelphia where dozens of residents had crammed into apartments. That the two tragedies, which are the worst residential fi...
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New York (AFP) - New York City officials on Monday revised down from 19 to 17 the death toll from a fire that broke out in a high-rise apartment in the Bronx a day earlier. Mayor Eric Adams told reporters it was now known that nine adults and eight children had been killed in Sunday's blaze, one of America's worst residential infernos in recent memory. Initially, Adams had said ten adults and nine children had perished in the fire that New York fire chief Daniel Nigro said was caused by a portable electric heater. Dozens more people were injured in the fire, which started around 11:00 am (1600...
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New York (AFP) - Nine children were among at least 19 people killed and dozens injured when a fire tore through a high-rise apartment building in New York on Sunday in one of America's worst residential fires in recent memory. At least 200 firefighters responded to the blaze, which broke out just before 11:00 am (1600 GMT) on the second and third floors of a 19-story building in The Bronx. Witnesses reported seeing trapped residents screaming for help from windows during the deadly inferno that the city's fire chief said had been caused by a portable electric heater, leaving victims on "every ...
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Philadelphia (AFP) - Jacuita Purifoy lost ten family members when a fire tore through a converted three-story house in Philadelphia Wednesday, killing 12 people in one of the United States' deadliest residential infernos in recent years. "My sisters and my nephews and my nieces are gone. They are never coming back again," the 37-year-old told AFP outside a nearby elementary school where families of victims were consoling each other. The Philadelphia mayor's office said that 12 people, including eight children, were killed in the blaze, revising an earlier toll of 13 victims. Purifoy lost seven...
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Washington (AFP) - Tornadoes are a frequent and often devastating weather phenomenon most commonly seen in the United States, but meteorologists are still unable to say exactly how they originate. "The US typically has more tornadoes than anywhere else in the world, though they can occur almost anywhere," according to the National Weather Service (NWS). Hardest hit are Great Plains states like Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, though they are also common in many other states, all east of the Rocky Mountains. OriginsScientists still struggle to pinpoint the precise way in which these powerful storms ...
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Houston (AFP) - Millions of Texans were still without safe water on Sunday as officials fielded angry complaints over shockingly large power bills spawned by a cold weather crisis that Houston's mayor said was ultimately preventable. The frigid air mass that paralyzed parts of the southern and central United States early in the week claimed more than 70 lives, left millions temporarily without power and froze water lines. "All of what happened this week was foreseeable and preventable," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told CBS's "Face the Nation," saying it had long been clear that the independ...
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