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Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu via Getty Images (ISLAMABAD, Pakistan) — The death toll from the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that all but destroyed several villages rose on Tuesday to at least 1,411 people, a government spokesperson said. Another 3,124 were injured in the 6.0 magnitude quake, which struck just before midnight on Sunday, Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson, […]
gsheldon via Getty Images (DERRY TOWNSHIP, PA) — The death of a 9-year-old girl who drowned at Hersheypark has been ruled accidental, with no criminal activity found on the part of the park’s employees, according to police. Sophia Subedi drowned on July 24 in the wave pool at the Pennsylvania theme park, the Derry Township […]
Charles O’Rear/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — A Philadelphia man who was convicted and sentenced to death in connection with the 1994 arson murder of a woman is now exonerated 30 years later, the District Attorney’s Office announced. On Wednesday, Daniel Gwynn, 54, was exonerated and released from state prison in Pennsylvania after the DA’s office said […]
Giles Clarke/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech, Idaho’s longest-serving death row inmate, was spared from death on Wednesday after the medical team assigned to administer a lethal injection failed to establish an IV line, preventing the execution from proceeding, officials said. The 73-year-old was to be executed at Idaho Maximum Security Institution […]
Josefiel Rivera/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (LONDON) — Mali, an elephant dubbed as the world’s “saddest” has died at a Philippine Zoo, Manila’s Mayor Honey Lacuna has announced. Vishwa Ma’ali — commonly known as Mali — was the only captive elephant in the Philippines. She passed away aged 43. “Just to set the record straight, […]
Alaska Department of Public Safety The body of an 11-year-old girl missing after a landslide in Alaska has been found, increasing the death toll to four, according to state officials. The body of Kara Heller was found on Saturday just after 6:30 p.m. local time after a scent detection K-9 indicated an area of debris […]
Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since war broke out between Israel and Hamas last week, a Palestinian-American apparel store owner in San Diego, California, has received a spate of death threats online, she said. The founder of a chain of Palestinian restaurants in the Northeast U.S., meanwhile, said a person last week screamed […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — As Israelis were wrapping up the seven-day-long Jewish festival of Sukkot on Saturday, sirens echoed across the country just before dawn, and citizens soon realized it was not a false alarm. A full-fledged surprise attack was being waged from the air, sea and ground by hoards of Hamas militants. Thousands […]
ABC News The death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan has risen to over 1,023, with more than 1,600 injured, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the World Health Organization said Sunday. A powerful magnitude-6.3 earthquake followed by strong aftershocks killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan on Saturday, […]
David Crane/picture alliance via Getty Images (PERSHING COUNTY, Nev.) — A death has been confirmed at Burning Man after thousands of attendees were left mired in mud from torrential rains and were being advised to conserve food and water as all roads in and out of the desert arts and “self-reliance” festival remained shut off […]
