Mexican oil rig accident kills 18
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At least 18 oil workers die after a drilling rig and an oil platform collide in stormy seas in the Gulf of Mexico.
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NEW ORLEANS Five offshore oil rigs were set adrift in the Gulf of Mexico and three others were damaged by Hurricane Ivan. The Coast Guard says it received a report from Diamond Offshore that a 335-foot semi
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A plane carrying up to 18 people, including a group of eight Italians, crashed into the sea close to a group of Venezuelan islands on Friday after reporting engine trouble, officials said.
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A Mexican military plane crashed into the sea near the resort city of Acapulco on Saturday and rescue teams were searching for its four crew members, the Defense Department said.
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A truck slammed into three vehicles Sunday in southern Iran, killing at least 18 people and injuring 22, state-run television reported.
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Four people were reportedly killed during the weekend, 10 were injured and 18 sailors were missing in a storm off the shores of Algeria.
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A truck carrying more than 25 tons of dynamite exploded Monday in northern Mexico, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 100, according to Notimex, Mexico's official news agency.
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HALIFAX (CP) - A lifeboat plunged 20 metres off an oil rig, killing a Canadian worker, when the hook securing it failed to lock properly, say U.S. Coast Guard researchers.
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The air stank of oil, and workers with pitchforks stabbed at the thick black gunk fouling the river where Elva Garibo Romano's family used to catch shrimp and crabs. More than two weeks after a pipeline burst in Nanchital, Mexico, and caused a major spill, Garibo's riverside house was still slick with oil, her husband was out of work and she and her children still suffered headaches and nausea.
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ALGIERS: A gas explosion yesterday killed 17 people and injured at least 40 others when a residential block collapsed in eastern Algeria, local authorities said.
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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At least 18 people were dead and some 25   were missing on Wednesday in an explosion at a coal mine in   Kazakhstan belonging to Mittal Steel MT.N, company sources   said.
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Up to 1,200 companies in Mexico  stopped production because of problems with the supply of  natural gas following a rash of pipeline explosions caused by  rebels, an industrial group said on Thursday.
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Eight people were killed on Friday when a government helicopter carrying aid volunteers crashed in central Mexico, local authorities said.
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A speeding bus packed with passengers plunged into a deep ravine in eastern Pakistan early today, killing at least 18 people and injuring 39, police and hospital sources said.
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A suicide bomber killed 18 people and wounded 40 others when he rammed a fuel tanker into protective walls outside a police headquarters in Iraq's northern oil city of Baiji on Monday, police said.
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Eight Dominican migrants died and 83 were  rescued on Friday when their overladen boat capsized in rough  seas off Puerto Rico, the U.S. Coast Guard said.