SYDNEY, Oct 25, (APP/AFP) – Four people were badly injured Tuesday in an accident at a theme park on Australia’s popular Gold Coast, police said, with reports that it involved the water-based Thunder River Rapids ride. Police said they were dealing with a “critical incident” at Dreamworld. “We’ve got four people in a critical condition. […]
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Four critical after Australia theme park incident
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Twelve killed in northeast Kenya bomb attack: police
NAIROBI, Oct 25, (APP/AFP) – A bomb attack on a northeast Kenya guest house killed at least 12 people on Tuesday, with investigators continuing to search for other victims, police said. “We have found 12 bodies so far after we managed to access the building,” one senior police officer told AFP. “We are still combing […]
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Six killed in Malaysia hospital fire
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25, (APP/AFP) – Six people died in a fire that swept through the intensive care unit of a major hospital in Malaysia, officials said Tuesday. Mohamad Rizal Buang, a senior fire officer in the southern state of Johor, told AFP the blaze at Johor Bahru’s Sultanah Aminah Hospital, a public facility, had […]
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Trump says he’s winning, polls say otherwise
WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (APP/AFP): Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump launched their two-week scramble to the finish line of the US presidential race Monday, with the billionaire Republican dismissing the polls to insist he’s “winning” the race. “This is bigger than Brexit, what’s going on,” the 70-year-old Trump told a rowdy rally in Florida, referring to […]
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UN struggles to raise funds for Haiti cholera victims
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Oct 25 (APP/AFP): The United Nations is struggling to raise $200 million to help the families of victims of a deadly outbreak of cholera in Haiti, a senior UN official said Monday. The financial aid follows the United Nations’ admission that it had a moral responsibility to help Haiti deal with […]
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Trump, Clinton zero in on battlegrounds in final sprint
WASHINGTON, Oct 25, (APP/AFP) – Donald Trump urged Americans Monday to “rise above the noise” of the caustic 2016 race and elect him president, as he insisted he is winning against Hillary Clinton despite polls that show the opposite. Casting the election as a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity to reject the nation’s political elite, the provocative Republican […]