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Li Keqiang orders thorough investigation into Tianjin blast

Premier Li Keqiang presided over a meeting on Tuesday to hear briefing by the State Council investigation team on updates of the probe into the severe blast that struck Tianjin on Aug. 12.

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11 killed after vehicle plunges into ravine in Indian-controlled Kashmir

​Eleven people, including three women and a child, were killed after a vehicle they were traveling in skidded off the road and fell into a deep ravine in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Wednesday.

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Two people killed in collision of U.S. Air Force F-16 jet, civilian plane

​Two people were killed after an F-16 fighter jet of the U.S. Air Force collided with a civilian plane in the state of South Carolina Tuesday morning.

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Ten injured in crane accident in New York's Midtown Manhattan

​At least ten people were injured by a mechanical crane in an accident at a construction site in New York's midtown Manhattan on Sunday, city officials said.

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22 dead, 38 injured as bus overturns in Xinjiang

A long-distance bus overturned on an expressway in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region late Tuesday night, killing 22 people and injuring 38 others, local authorities confirmed Wednesday.

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At least 30 injured in train, truck collision in Southern Califronia

​At least 30 people were injured Tuesday morning when a Metrolink train collided with a tractor trailer and derailed.

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41 persons drown in ferry accident in western Bangladesh

​Forty one persons, including nine children, drowned and several others were still missing in a ferry accident in the river Padma in western Manikganj on Sunday, officials confirmed.

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3 dead, 10 injured in blast at Petrobras platform in Brazil

At least three people were killed, 10 injured and six missing in an explosion at a platform of Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras in the southeast of the country, the company said on Wednesday.

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3 killed, 30 injured in vehicle pileup accident in Pennsylvania

At least three people died and 30 people were injured Wednesday afternoon in a multiple vehicle accident on Interstate 80 in Clarion County, U.S. State of Pennsylvania.

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Gas combustion blamed for 26 killed in NE China coal mine

​A coal mine accident that claimed 26 lives and injured 50 on Wednesday was caused by gas combustion instead of coal dust ignition as previously presumed, China's work safety watchdog said on Thursday.

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Death toll of south Pakistan's road accident rises to 57

Death toll of the road accident caused by a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck in Pakistan's south Sukkur district has risen to 57, local media reported.

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Nine killed as minibus falls off cliff in SW China

Nine people were killed and five others injured Sunday as a minibus fell off a cliff in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local authorities said.

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French oil giant Total CEO killed in plane accident

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of French oil giant Total was killed here in a plane accident.

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Bus accident kills 23 people in Haiti

At least 23 people were killed and another 37 were injured Tuesday when a passenger bus crashed in western Haiti, authorities said.

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At least 8 killed in road accident in western Mexico

​At least eight people died and 10 more injured on Sunday in a road accident on a section of highway in Mexico's western state of Michoacan, local Civil Protection authorities said in a statement.

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Taskforce heads for Tibet traffic site

A taskforce headed by an official from the State Administration of Work Safety left Beijing on Sunday for the site of a deadly traffic accident that killed 44 in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Saturday.

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11 dead in kindergarten bus accident

All 11 people, including eight kindergarten children, died after a minivan fell into a pond Thursday in central China's Hunan Province, rescuers confirmed early on Friday.