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A 10-year-old child and two women died on Monday on the treacherous and illegal migration route across the English Channel from France, apparently trampled to death on a packed boat, French authorities said. The dinghy left the area of Sangatte in northern France at around 5.15am carrying 105 people, local prefect François Xavier Lauch said. The boat ran into difficulty with its passengers asking for help, authorities said. They called rescue services at around 8am when they were some six...

In a post on X, Mr. Vijay recalled the tragic incident at Velusamypuram in Karur on September 27, 2025, in which 41 people were killed in a crowd crush at a political rally addressed by him.

The organisers had announced that TVK president Vijay would speak at 12 p.m.; the crowd began to assemble from 9 a.m., but he did not arrive at the scheduled time.

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Forty-nine passengers have been rescued and a search is under way for the missing.

Police suspect that one of them accidentally fell into the pond, and the other drowned while attempting a rescue

Following the death of two minor boys during a Ganesha idol immersion procession in Raichur, Deputy Commissioner Poovitha S. visited the grieving families on Sunday to offer her condolences and assure them of full state support and assured compensation from Chief Minister’s relief fund

The aircraft went down near wind turbines in Kipeto, a hilly area of Kajiado County southwest of Nairobi, according to Kajiado West police commander Maureen Kuto. Neither victim was immediately identified.

Eight-year-old Aarush lost his balance while playing at Ramapuram village in Owk mandal and the two men went in after him; the canal was carrying about 3,200 cusecs at the time

Congress seeks resignations of Health and Excise Ministers, seeks ₹1 crore compensation and jobs for victims’ kin; the incidents reflect failures in the State’s health and administrative systems, it says

From Nigeria’s landmark refinery share offering to mourning in the Democratic Republic of Congo and efforts to improve inclusion in Côte d’Ivoire, here are the main stories from Africa.

Ten people were evacuated from the home in Araucanía region in central Chile.

At least 24 children have died after a fire broke out at a school in Bukavu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The blaze reportedly started while children were in class, with some attempting to escape by jumping from higher floors. Adults are also reported to have died, while an investigation into the cause of the fire is underway. Our correspondent Emmet Livingstone tells us more. 

Edward Skyler reflects on the aftermath of 9/11, saying it was extremely difficult to make decisions in the wake of a tragedy that left 2,700 people murdered and the city filled with grief, anxiety, and political tension. He recalls that when Mayor Bloomberg was sworn in on 01/01/2002, smoke was still rising from the World Trade Center site and the economic damage had already been done. Skyler says the period was marked by intense emotions and strong voices from people opposed to New York, and that the job of city leaders was to listen to all sides and develop a plan that served the city’s best interests, even if it disappointed some people. He concludes that, in hindsight, those decisions have stood the test of time. (Source: Bloomberg)

Authorities say at least 14 school children have been killed after fire ravaged schools in the DR Congo.

Reports are emerging from the powerful explosion at a military barracks in Bolivia that killed at least nine people.

A bus returning from the Pico do Fogo crater left the road on Saturday, killing at least 25 people, most of them schoolchildren, on Cabo Verde's Fogo island. The post At Least 25 Die as a Bus Leaves the Crater Road on Cabo Verde’s Fogo Island appeared first on The Rio Times.

A massive fire at a market in the Indonesia village of Babuda has claimed the lives of eleven people.

Mourners in Algeria bade farewell to ten-year-old Ayoub Hadaf on Sunday, one day after his body was recovered from a well where he’d been trapped for four days.

Several people are dead after a multi-storey building collapsed in New Delhi. Rescue crews worked through the night, searching through the rubble for people who may still be trapped. (Source: Bloomberg)

Child found dead after four-day rescue effort in Algeria's western province of el-Bayadh.

Victim’s cousin alleged police negligence, saying that the family repeatedly called the Saadh police station after the collapse, but the calls were initially unanswered, so villagers had to launch a rescue operation themselves and worked for nearly two hours to pull the trapped family members out

At least 25 people, mostly children and teenagers, were killed in a bus crash on Cape Verde's Fogo Island, public radio network RCV said on Sunday.

The tragic death of a junior Chinese customs officer on the Sino-Nepal border, who had only been in her position for four days before being killed in a catastrophic mudslide, has stirred immense heartbreak online. Twenty-four-year-old Li Leiyang began her role as a plant quarantine officer at the Customs at Gyirong Port in Tibet on August 21, according to a report by news portal 163.com. On August 26, while Li was working at her desk, a glacier collapsed in Nepal, triggering a mudslide and...