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Cargo ships collide off Mumbai coast causing oil spill to spread to coastline

New Delhi, India – It was on August 7, when two Panamanian cargo ships collided off the Mumbai coast causing an oil spill from one of the two vessels that is threatening the Mumbai coast. Indian Coast Guard officials said …

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Missing plane sent 24 error messages

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Air France Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages — including one saying the aircraft’s autopilot had disengaged — before it vanished with 228 people on board, aviation investigators said Saturday. But even as they analyzed the error messages …

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Indonesian Military Plane Crash Kills At Least 97

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An Indonesian military plane has crashed, killing at least 97 people.  As Daniel Schearf reports from The military transport plane crashed into homes near an air force base Wednesday morning as it was coming in for a landing. Over one …

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Alaskan volcano Mount Redoubt erupts

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An Alaskan volcano 100 miles (160km) south-west of the state’s largest city, Anchorage, erupted overnight, sending a plume of smoke up to 15,000 metres (50,000ft) into the air. Mount Redoubt experienced four large explosions late on Sunday and early today, …

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Australia Declares Oil Spill Area Disaster Zone

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An oil spill in eastern Australia has forced officials to declare a 60 kilometer stretch of the Queensland coast a disaster zone amid warnings that legal action could be taken against the operator of the cargo ship that lost its …

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