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Taiwan launches investigation after express train crashes, leaving 18 dead and almost 190 injured
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday pushed for a swift investigation after an express train derailed Sunday on a coastal tourist route, killing 18 people in the island's worst rail accident for 27 years. The crash on the popular east coast line, which left the ...
A speeding train ran over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival in northern India on Friday evening, killing at least 60 people and injuring dozens more, police said. The train failed to stop after the accident on the outskirts of Amritsar, a city ...
Helicopter crashes on Yokosuka-based carrier USS Ronald Reagan off Philippines, injuring sailors
A U.S. Navy helicopter crashed on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan on Friday, injuring multiple sailors, the navy said. The 7th Fleet said in a statement that the MH-60 Seahawk crashed shortly after takeoff Friday morning while the carrier was ...
Number of fatal accidents linked to seasonal mushroom picking on the rise, police say
Japan is seeing an increase in the number of deaths related to mushroom picking, after extreme summer heat and heavy rain produced a rich crop of the seasonal delicacy this year. Many mushroom hunters, mainly elderly people, tend to go into remote areas deep in ...
Snowstorm kills at least eight South Korean climbers in Nepal
At least eight climbers from a South Korean expedition have died on Nepal's Mount Gurja after their camp was devastated by a violent snowstorm, officials said Saturday. The bodies of eight climbers — four South Koreans and four Nepali guides — were spotted among the ...
Air Self-Defense Force confirms safety of Japan's F-35 fighter jets after U.S. crash
The Air Self-Defense Force has confirmed the safety of the nine F-35A cutting-edge stealth fighters deployed at its Misawa base in Aomori Prefecture, after an F-35B belonging to the U.S. military crashed in South Carolina. The move came on Friday, after the U.S. military halted ...
The Pentagon grounded the global fleet of F-35 stealth fighters Thursday so that engineers could conduct urgent inspections following the first ever crash of the costliest plane in history. Preliminary data from a Marine Corps F-35B that was completely destroyed in a South Carolina crash ...
Five men and the sea: Huge marlin sinks Philippine fishing boat
Like a modern-day take on "The Old Man and the Sea," five Filipino fishermen were cast adrift for days on a makeshift raft after a huge marlin sank their boat. The men were fishing in the South China Sea when a 6-foot-long (1.8-meter) marlin punctured ...
A motionless squirrel stunned by a car has been revived by its driver, who performed chest compressions beside a Minnesota road. Police officers on patrol in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park thought the man might be performing CPR. In police video posted to the department ...
U.S. loses first F-35 stealth fighter in crash in South Carolina
A U.S. F-35 stealth fighter jet was destroyed in a crash during training on Friday, officials said. The pilot safely ejected. The crash is the first of its kind for the troubled F-35 program, marking an unfortunate moment for the most expensive plane in history. The ...
Indonesian teenager rescued after seven weeks drifting at sea
An Indonesian teenager has survived about seven weeks adrift at sea after the floating wooden fish trap he was employed to mind slipped its moorings. The parents of 18-year-old Aldi Novel Adilang and the Indonesian Consulate in Osaka say he was rescued by a Panamanian-flagged ...
Six injured as motorboat slams into quay on island in Hiroshima
Six people were injured, three seriously, when their motorboat slammed into a quay Sunday morning on an island in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture. The injured were two women aged 28 and 85, and the 62-year-old male skipper, the local Japan Coast Guard office said. A 3-year-old ...
