Residents across parts of southern Alaska were jolted by strong shaking early Friday, prompting tsunami warnings, precautionary evacuations and an immediate response from emergency officials as a powerful earthquake rumbled beneath the Pacific Ocean off the Alaska Peninsula. The earthquake struck in the early morning hours southeast of Perryville, sending tremors across much of southern …

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A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings and evacuation orders across large parts of the Pacific Ocean, prompting one of the most extensive international emergency responses in recent years. The quake hit beneath the Pacific Ocean at the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone, one of the world’s most seismically active regions. The …

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The country is still mourning one of the deadliest railway disasters in Spain’s modern history, in which two high-speed trains collided in the southern province of Cordoba, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds. A routine Sunday night for hundreds of travellers between some of Spain’s busiest cities turned tragic when one train derailed near …

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Nearly five months after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, investigators still are searching for answers. A new anonymous message has added another unexpected twist to one of the nation’s most closely followed missing-person cases. Nancy Guthrie, 84, mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, went missing from her home near Tucson, Arizona, in early February. Since then, federal …

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What started out as a normal Friday evening in Dubai Marina rapidly became a terrifying emergency as a massive fire erupted inside one of the area’s most recognisable residential skyscrapers, with flames shooting up the side of the building, forcing thousands of residents to run out into the night. The blaze happened at the Marina …

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A routine traffic stop on a South Carolina interstate quickly escalated into a life-threatening confrontation, leaving an Anderson County deputy seriously injured and prompting a major law enforcement response. The incident occurred along Interstate 85 near Townville where deputies had stopped a vehicle for a moving traffic violation. Traffic stops are one of the most …

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