Trial opens for hotel fire that killed 6
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Brenda Brazell still remembers waking to the screams of "Help! My baby!" and then desperately searching a smoke-filled hotel hallway for her son and granddaughter, who were staying a few rooms away.
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The trial is due to start of a man accused of murdering 29 people in Northern Ireland's worst atrocity.
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The first trial for one of the several thousand lawsuits that Louisiana homeowners filed against their insurers in federal court after Hurricane Katrina gets under way this week.
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A fast-moving apartment fire that killed 10 people and left more than 50 others homeless has been ruled arson, the state fire marshal's office said Thursday.
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A Spanish trial began on Thursday of 29 people charged with involvement in the Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people three years ago in the deadliest al Qaeda-related attack in Europe.Comment
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The trial of six men accused of plotting to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris opened with testimony from the suspected ringleader.
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Some 20 firefighters have been sent to the hotel after fire in a food preparation area.
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More than six months after the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist, 18 suspects went on trial Monday in a case widely seen as a test of whether the country's judiciary will be able to investigate allegations of official negligence in the slaying.
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BEREAVED families came face to face with 29 people charged with involvement in the deadliest al Qaeda-related attack in Europe when the Madrid train bombings trial opened overnight.Comment
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A fire at a mental health hospital in Siberia killed eight people a day after a fire at a Moscow drug treatment facility killed 45 women. Moscow fire officials said the staff at the rehabilitation facility did not call the fire department fast enough and did not do enough to evacuate patients. The officials said windows and a fire exit were blocked by metal grills, and another exit was hidden by smoke.
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An intense fire torched an apartment building early Saturday, killing three people and forcing 11 families to scramble for safety from the smoke and flames, a fire official said.
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A trial into Europe's worst terrorist attack in 15 years opens Thursday amid airtight security, with 29 suspects facing charges in a brutal March 2004 attack that killed 191 rush-hour commuters.Comment
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Six suspects accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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A stubborn fire raged for 5 1/2 hours on the 29th floor of a historic downtown skyscraper, shooting flames from windows and sending at least 37 people to hospitals, most of them firefighters who suffered smoke inhalation.
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Jurors began deliberations Thursday in the trial of six men charged with attempting a series of bombings on London's transport system two years ago.
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A pub fire which left three people dead was started on purpose, a court hears.
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The deaths of three people in a fire at a hotel in Cornwall are being treated as murder by detectives.