'Like a massive dam collapsing'
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The island of Phuket, one of Thailand's top resorts, lies in tatters as people struggle to come to terms with the tragedy.
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The negotiations appeared near collapse on Sunday over North Koreaâs demands for huge shipments of fuel oil and electricity.
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An intense rainfall has forced evacuations, threatened water supplies and caused expensive flood damage in parts of Britain, which struggled to recover Sunday.
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Its scope was ruthlessly ambitious, causing destruction officials say would have been "unimaginable." The alleged plot to take down several U.S.-bound planes with liquid explosives appears to be unlike anything the world has seen in years.
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Snow storms stranding millions of travellers are a severe disaster that will last for several days, leaders warn.
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Roughly 28,000 tons of Las Vegas history collapses in a spectacle of fireworks and explosives. By Steve Friess.
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âPlease help me. Please help me,â said a terrified Hassan, breaking down in tears and burying her face in a tissue. She said she might be killed like British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was beheaded by his captors earlier this month.
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About 100 homes are evacuated in northern England amid fears a dam could burst after torrential rain.
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Chinese 'fess up as project goes titsup Chinese officials have admitted that the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze River will, in the absence of urgent preventative action, provoke an ecological and environmental "catastrophe", the Times reports.â¦
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A truck laden with explosives blows up near an Iraqi dam that US engineers had said was at risk of collapse.
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Papua New Guinea is heading towards economic and social collapse and could be overrun by criminals, a report warns.
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XINTAI, China, Aug. 23 -- The first sign of trouble was a stream of water that burst from a wall deep in the mine, Wang Kuitao recalled. Within minutes, he said, the water was everywhere, rushing down the shaft carrying tons of mud. Another disaster was on the way, Wang quickly concluded, one more...
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What could've been the director's finest hour has turned into a nightmare.
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A major flare on the Sun earlier this week generated what scientists are calling a solar tsunami.
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First came the sickening crack of splitting earth, then a sudden roar as dirt and vegetation swallowed home after home. Alerted to the landslide by screams and honking horns, some in this sliver of a town found themselves literally racing the fast-moving flow downhill as it tore through cars and telephone poles.
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A spokesperson for Hilton International said, &quot;We are deeply shocked by this serious incident which occurred in Hilton Taba this evening.
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The Zambian government declares a national disaster to help deal with catastrophic floods.