Monarch flight makes emergency landing as passengers saw wing ‘hanging off’

Monarch Airlines flight to Malaga was forced to make an emergency landing in Manchester after the pilot reportedly discovered a piece of wing had come loose along with a problem with the pressure in the aircraft.


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Storm Alert: life-threatening typhoon Koppu approaches Hong Kong, Philippines

Koppu, a catastrophic storm is forecast to strengthen to a super typhoon with sustained wind speeds of 185km/h as it makes landfall. After a powerful impact on Hong Kong, Koppu is expected to to explode in intensity over the next four days as it tracks toward the northern Philippines.


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World’s most powerful storm of the year takes aim at Japan, China, Taiwan

After wreaking havoc across the Northern Marianas, the world’s most powerful storm of the year Super Typhoon Soudelor takes aim at Japan, Taiwan and China. The deadly typhoon is expected to hit Taiwan and the southern Ryukyu Islandsas early as Thursday night or Friday with impacts lasting into early next week across eastern China, confirms a meteorologist.


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Moderate earthquake hits state of Assam

The northeastern state of Assam, India was jolted by an earthquake of  5.6 magnitude today at around 6.40 am.

According to the Indian Meteorological Department, the epicentre of the earthquake was 23 km north of Basugaon, Assam.

Tremors were felt as far as Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and the eastern part of India.

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Tunisia terrorist attack deals heavy blow to the nation’s tourism industry

Friday’s deadly attack in Tunisia’s sea resorts of Sousse is considered one of the most brutal and deadliest strikes in nation’s recent history which has left 39 killed and 39 injured.

What’s worst about the attack is that it has dealt a heavy blow to the nation’s tourism industry that has seen only slow recovery since the social unrest began in late 2010.

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Typhoon Kujira wreaks havoc in Vietnam’s northern provinces

Typhoon Kujira, the first storm of the year brought heavy rains and caused flash floods, costing human lives and property damage in northern provinces, including Son La and Lai Chau, reports Vietnam News Agency (VNA).

Son La was hit the hardest, with eight dead and three people missing, according to the provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, and Search and Rescue on Wednesday.

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Highway crash in Bolivia kills seven people

Two trucks collided on the highway linking the Bolivian provinces of Oruro and La Paz killing seven people and injuring one, police said.

A Volvo cargo truck transporting wood hit a Toyota truck head-on just 15 km (9 mi.) from the town of Caracollo, in Oruro.

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6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Malaysia, 13 dead & 6 missing

The 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia, left 13 people dead and six missing on Southeast Asia’s highest peak, according to officials.

Early Friday the quake struck near the picturesque mountain, which is a popular tourist destination, sending landslides and huge granite boulders tumbling down from its wide, 4,095-metre-high (13,435-foot) crown.

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Indonesian Sinabung volcano erupts, thousands evacuated

Officials reported that a volcano erupted for the third time in as many months on the western Indonesian island of Sumatra, forcing hundreds of villagers to evacuate. Thick plumes of volcanic ash and flowing lava are spewing from Mount Sinabung.

According to reports earlier in the week, Mount Sinabung’s lava dome, a rounded mound built by thick magma, had increased volume and was unstable. The national disaster management agency for Indonesia raised the alert status level for the volcano on Friday. Volcanic activity will continue to be monitored by Indonesian authorities.

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Volcano erupts on isolated southern island, Residents confirmed safe

The Japan Meteorological Agency raised alert level for Mount Shindake from 3 to 5, the first maximum level since the alert system was established in December 2007. Level 3 means that restrictions are in place on approaching the mountain. Evacuation is called for when the alert level reaches 5.

Residents of Kuchinoerabujima Island were safe after a volcanic eruption unleashed a plume of smoke reaching about 9,000 meters high and sent a pyroclastic flow to the island’s coastline on May 29.

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Three Guatemala volcanoes show increased activity

Columns of ash spewed up to more than 4,600 meters above sea level when the Fuego volcano in Guatemala recorded 26 explosions, from weak to moderate on Tuesday.

The National Institute of seismology, volcanology, meteorology and hydrology (Insivumeh) informed that the Colossus, located at 50 kilometers to the southwest of this capital, recorded incandescent pulses 150 meters above the crater, weak and moderate avalanches.

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Devastated Nepal rattled by another quake of magnitude 7.4

Another earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 has struck Nepal according to the latest reports of USGS. Nepal which experienced a devastating earthquake two weeks back that killed 7000 people was again the epicentre of this major earthquake.

The latest tremor was felt as far away as the capital of India, Delhi, as well as Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25 had a magnitude of 7.8. The quake was felt in North India including the states of Bihar, West Bengal, Agra and Uttar Pradesh.


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Subtropical Storm warning issued for parts of Carolina

For parts of North and South Carolina, a tropical storm warning was issued on Friday as Ana approached the U.S. coast. The tropical storm warning is in effect from the south Santee River in South Carolina to Surf City, North Carolina. AccuWeather predicted that the storm will bring rain, wind and rough surf to the Southeast coast through the weekend.

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Alert status for Manila Bulusan volcano raised to Level 1

After it spewed an ash plume cloud as high as 250 metres, spawned by a phreatic eruption on Wednesday night, the alert status of the Mount Bulusan volcano in Sorsogon in southern Luzon has been raised from normal to Alert Level 1 by The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).

The volcano’s hydro-thermal abnormalities beneath the volcano might lead to more steam-driven or phreatic eruptions in the coming days due to which the agency had to raise the volcano’s level to 1 from normal, said Ed Laguerta, the Phivolcs resident volcanologist.


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New Zealand’s South Island Tourism Center hit by severe earthquake

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 hit the New Zealand ski resort towns of Queenstown and Wanaka on Monday. The earthquake, which struck at 2:29 p.m., had its epicenter 30 km northwest of the tourist town of Wanaka in the South Island, and at a depth of 4 km.

However, initially the quake was measured as 6.0 magnitude at a depth of 5 km.

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China-Nepal blocked highway cleared six days after quake

The Chinese side of a pivotal highway linking Tibet and Nepal was cleared of obstructions Friday (May 1), six days after an 8.1-Magnitude earthquake in Nepal caused landslides that blocked the road.

The last of the landslide debris was cleared at a section between Zham Town and the China-Nepal border Friendship Bridge at around midday, said Song Xiaodong, an armed police officer, who led 165 soldiers to join the road work with local workers.


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Four sailors go missing as storm hits Alabama regatta

Coast Guard rescue teams were racing against time on Monday searching for four people believed to have gone missing in Alabama’s Mobile Bay since a storm late Saturday tore through a sailboat regatta. At least two people were killed and more than 40 have been pulled from the bay, the Coast Guard informed.


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Chaos reigns supreme in quake-hit Nepal as death toll passes 4,000

KATHMANDU, Nepal —Nepal’s earthquake-hit capital was short on practically everything Monday as its people searched for lost loved ones, sorted through rubble for their belongings and struggled to provide for their families’ needs. In much of the countryside, it was worse, though how much worse was only beginning to become apparent.

The official overall death toll shot past 4,000, even without a full accounting from vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the calamity.


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Multiple tornadoes approached northern Texas

A severe storm swept across northern Texas resulting in hail, high winds and numerous tornadoes. Multiple tornadoes were sighted late Sunday evening in Johnson County, Texas, just south of Fort Worth. After moving through the town of Rio Vista, the tornado moved east into rural parts of Johnson County.


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Over 100 Tourists and pilgrims trapped in Nepal

Nearly 125 tourists and pilgrims from India are stranded in Nepal after a high-magnitude earthquake struck the nation.

Nepal’s deputy Prime Minister, Bamdev Gautam, has declared a state of emergency and appealed for humanitarian assistance across the region as death toll from 7.8-magnitude earthquake nears 1,500.

The earthquake near Kathmandu triggered avalanches in Mount Everest claiming 13 lives.


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