Collapse of burning Tehran high-rise kills 30 firefighters
By AMIR VAHDAT and NASSER KARIMI A high-rise building in Tehran engulfed by fire collapsed on Thursday, killing at least 30 firefighters and injuring some 75 people, state media reported.…
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Governor activates National Guard in Milwaukee
The Latest on violence in Milwaukee following the shooting of a man by police (all times local): 1 p.m. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has activated the state’s National Guard to…
No exit: Safety failures turned Baghdad bombing into inferno
By HAMZA HENDAWI and SINAN SALAHEDDIN Dozens of men were watching a soccer match at the “Smile” cafe when the blast hit in the street below. Within minutes, a fire…
Fire at Saudi oil company residential complex kills 7
By ADAM SCHRECK A large fire broke out Sunday in the basement of a sprawling residential complex in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich east, killing at least seven people and injuring more…
VANDALISM, LOOTING AFTER VIGIL FOR MISSOURI Michael Brown
By JIM SALTER and JIM SUHR A man leaves a store on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. A few thousand people crammed a suburban St. Louis street Sunday…
NORWEGIAN-SOMALI ID’D AS KENYA MALL ATTACKER
By TOM ODULA and JASON STRAZIUSO FILE – In this photo taken from footage from Citizen TV, via the Kenya Defence Forces and made available Friday, Oct. 4 2013, a…
TERRORISTS CLAIM 137 KILLED IN KENYA MALL ATTACK
By DAVID RISING and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Mary Italo, center, grieves with other relatives for her son Thomas Abayo Italo, 33, who was killed in the Westgate Mall attack, as they…
RAGING FIRE STRIKES AT HEART OF SANDY-HIT NJ TOWN
By WAYNE PARRY and BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Onlookers watch from the shore as black smoke rises from a fire on the Seaside Heights, N.J. boardwalk Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. The fire…