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Poland compares deadly lightning storm to terror attack

Friday, 23 August 2019, 13:08 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Three people were missing Friday in southern Poland after a deadly thunderstorm with multiple lightning strikes hit the Tatra Mountains, killing five people and injuring over 150, rescuers...

Foot on table: British PM at home in French president palace

Friday, 23 August 2019, 07:46 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apparently wasn't sweating it despite the high stakes subject of his talks with the president of France: Brexit. So relaxed was he during his Thursday visit...

Weekslong standoffs in Mediterranean becoming 'new normal'

Thursday, 22 August 2019, 12:25 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

 The Ocean Viking carrying 356 people, mostly Africans, rescued in the Mediterranean off Libya is closing in on two weeks at sea without being assigned a safe port to offload the traumatized...

EU to move evacuated migrants from Italy; 350 still at sea

Thursday, 22 August 2019, 08:09 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The first steps to relocate migrants who were kept at sea by Italy for nearly three weeks began on Wednesday as a new crisis loomed with more than 350 rescued people still on board a rescue ship in...

Watch: Pilot says he had to bring down plane while cameras rolled

Thursday, 22 August 2019, 08:04 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

A pilot and self-professed thrill seeker said Wednesday he was forced to bring his new plane down into the ocean off Northern California as it lost power, recording dramatic videos as he and his...

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