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Friday, July 18, 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Israeli forces strike Catholic Parish in Gaza
The Holy Family Parish in Gaza (AFP or licensors)
The Holy Family Church, the only Catholic Church in Gaza, was struck by a raid this morning, resulting in three deaths and several injuries, including the Parish priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli. In a statement, the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem appeals to leaders "to raise their voices and to do all that is necessary in order to stop this tragedy which is humanly and morally unjustified."
By Vatican News
The Holy Family Church, the only Catholic Church in the Gaza Strip, was hit by a tank this morning. Three people subsequently died from their injuries. Others were reportedly wounded more lightly, including the parish priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli.
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, earlier spoke to Vatican News:
“What we know for sure is that a tank, the IDF says by mistake, but we are not sure about this, they hit the Church directly, the Church of the Holy Family, the Latin Church”, he said. “There are four people seriously wounded, among these four, two are in very dramatic conditions and their lives are in serious danger”.
Monday, July 07, 2025
London bombings of 2005
On 7 July 2005 four suicide bombers struck London's transport network, killing 52 people and injuring over 770 others.
Three of the blasts happened on London Underground, on or around 8.50am, in the vicinity of Aldgate, Edgware Road and Russell Square stations. The fourth device exploded at 9.47am on a bus that had been diverted via Tavistock Square, close to where BTP’s HQ was at the time. The building became a base for the walking wounded to assemble in.
BTP officers and staff from across the organisation worked tirelessly on the day of the bombings and in the days, weeks and months that followed to deal with the tragic consequences of these acts and to help ensure safety on the rail way.
Many colleagues were honoured for their extraordinary efforts during what was described as one of the biggest challenges faced by the police service in post-war Britain. The circumstances were complex, difficult and dangerous, however BTP officers carried out their vital and specialist roles - including initial rescue, body recovery, search and mortuary duties, as well as supporting the extensive coroner’s inquiry which followed. They showed exceptional courage and professionalism during this critical time.
They were supported by non-operational colleagues who also went above and beyond to support the frontline professionally and sensitively, whilst helping to get the transport network in London restored quickly, efficiently and safely following the attacks.
Chief Constable Paul Crowther said: “The heroic efforts of BTP personnel and all agencies who responded to the events of 7 July 2005 will never be forgotten and the memories of what happened on that day remain firmly in our minds.
“During the most difficult circumstances, BTP provided an absolutely outstanding level of service.
“A lot of things have changed since 7/7, both in how we monitor threats and how we respond when they are apparent.
“We now have comprehensive communications system which allows us to link in with Transport for London and other agencies much more efficiently.
“We have far greater access to CCTV, with more widespread coverage than ten years ago, and we use regular training exercises to test our response to threats.
“All of these changes are designed to help us ensure this terrible tragedy never happens again.”
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Saturday, December 26, 2015
U.S. storm deaths reach 22 as new tornadoes hit Texas
US | Sat Dec 26, 2015 9:59pm EST
DALLAS | BY LISA MARIA GARZA
Traffic goes across the bridge on Alabama hwy 87 at the Pea River in Elba, Alabama, December 26, 2015.
REUTERS/MARVIN GENTRY
Four people died in a storm-related incident in Texas near where a tornado touched down on Saturday, bringing the death toll from tornadoes and flooding this week in the southern United States to 22, according to officials and local media.
The four victims were killed in what was believed to be a traffic accident in the Texas city of Garland, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of downtown Dallas, police spokesman Mike Hatfield told the Dallas Morning News.
The National Weather Service confirmed tornadoes hit multiple cities around Dallas on Saturday evening. Weather officials said there were reports of debris falling from the sky onto a highway in nearby DeSoto.
The Weather Service said a tornado had touched down to the south of Dallas in Ellis County, where Emergency Management Coordinator Stephanie Parker said: "We have destroyed and damaged homes."
Weather officials also confirmed tornadoes striking the Texas towns Ovilla, Farmersville and Rowlett - which neighbors Garland. Images uploaded to social media showed a massive tornado near Rowlett and at least one destroyed structure.
Flash flood and tornado warnings extended into Saturday night for the region, according to the Weather Service.
Officials in Benton County, Mississippi, on Saturday found the bodies of a man and woman who were missing since being caught in a tornado on Wednesday, said Greg Flynn, spokesman for Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
The cause of their deaths was not disclosed, but they brought the total dead from tornadoes in Mississippi to 10, in addition to 56 people injured, officials said.
The tornado damaged 403 homes over a seven-county area in the state, Flynn said. In addition, flooding left 50 homes uninhabitable and closed 40 roads in Monroe County, which got 10 to 12 inches (about 25 to 30 cm) of rain, he said.
The tornadoes also killed six people in Tennessee and one each in Arkansas and Alabama, bringing the three-state total to 18.
State authorities told local broadcaster WTVY that they had recovered the body of a 5-year-old boy who drowned when the car he was in was swept into floodwaters on Friday. A 22-year-old man who was in the car remains missing, the station said.
U.S. post-holiday travelers can expect a mix of stormy weather during the remainder of the weekend, with blizzard conditions in New Mexico and western Texas and flooding rain in the southern plains from south Texas through Indiana, forecasters said.
In California, high winds fanned a wildfire that closed parts of the much-traveled U.S. 101 northwest of Los Angeles and forced evacuations, fire officials said.
The wet and snowy conditions come after a Christmas Day of unseasonable warmth on the East Coast, with record-high temperatures set or tied in several cities, including New York.
"It looks like it's going to be pretty bad across the southwest into the southern plains," said Evan Duffey, meteorologist for AccuWeather.
He added that given the blizzard conditions expected for Saturday, anyone hoping to travel in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas "should try to get going as soon as you can" to beat the storm.
(Reporting by Lisa Maria Garza in Dallas, Mary Wisniewski in Chicago and Kevin Murphy in Kansas City; Additional reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Bill Rigby and Dan Grebler)
Four people died in a storm-related incident in Texas near where a tornado touched down on Saturday, bringing the death toll from tornadoes and flooding this week in the southern United States to 22, according to officials and local media.
The four victims were killed in what was believed to be a traffic accident in the Texas city of Garland, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of downtown Dallas, police spokesman Mike Hatfield told the Dallas Morning News.
The National Weather Service confirmed tornadoes hit multiple cities around Dallas on Saturday evening. Weather officials said there were reports of debris falling from the sky onto a highway in nearby DeSoto.
The Weather Service said a tornado had touched down to the south of Dallas in Ellis County, where Emergency Management Coordinator Stephanie Parker said: "We have destroyed and damaged homes."
Weather officials also confirmed tornadoes striking the Texas towns Ovilla, Farmersville and Rowlett - which neighbors Garland. Images uploaded to social media showed a massive tornado near Rowlett and at least one destroyed structure.
Flash flood and tornado warnings extended into Saturday night for the region, according to the Weather Service.
Officials in Benton County, Mississippi, on Saturday found the bodies of a man and woman who were missing since being caught in a tornado on Wednesday, said Greg Flynn, spokesman for Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
The cause of their deaths was not disclosed, but they brought the total dead from tornadoes in Mississippi to 10, in addition to 56 people injured, officials said.
The tornado damaged 403 homes over a seven-county area in the state, Flynn said. In addition, flooding left 50 homes uninhabitable and closed 40 roads in Monroe County, which got 10 to 12 inches (about 25 to 30 cm) of rain, he said.
The tornadoes also killed six people in Tennessee and one each in Arkansas and Alabama, bringing the three-state total to 18.
State authorities told local broadcaster WTVY that they had recovered the body of a 5-year-old boy who drowned when the car he was in was swept into floodwaters on Friday. A 22-year-old man who was in the car remains missing, the station said.
U.S. post-holiday travelers can expect a mix of stormy weather during the remainder of the weekend, with blizzard conditions in New Mexico and western Texas and flooding rain in the southern plains from south Texas through Indiana, forecasters said.
In California, high winds fanned a wildfire that closed parts of the much-traveled U.S. 101 northwest of Los Angeles and forced evacuations, fire officials said.
The wet and snowy conditions come after a Christmas Day of unseasonable warmth on the East Coast, with record-high temperatures set or tied in several cities, including New York.
"It looks like it's going to be pretty bad across the southwest into the southern plains," said Evan Duffey, meteorologist for AccuWeather.
He added that given the blizzard conditions expected for Saturday, anyone hoping to travel in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas "should try to get going as soon as you can" to beat the storm.
(Reporting by Lisa Maria Garza in Dallas, Mary Wisniewski in Chicago and Kevin Murphy in Kansas City; Additional reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Bill Rigby and Dan Grebler)
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
Tornado Count Rises to 16 in Texas
Tornado Central
Published: May 16, 2013, 9:51 PM EDT weather.com
Lightning strikes from a storm illuminate a home damaged by a tornado on Hyde Park Lane at Country Club Rd. in Cleburne, May 15, 2013. (The Dallas Morning News, Tom Fox)
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The number of tornadoes confirmed in North Texas Wednesday night has now increased to 16, including an EF4 twister that claimed six lives in the town of Granbury.
Several survey teams documented the damage Thursday. The NWS released new details on the strength and location of the tornadoes.
Granbury, Texas: EF4; wind speeds as high as 200 mph
Cleburne, Texas: EF3
Millsap, Texas: EF1
Pecan Plantation, Texas: EF1
near Lake Amon G. Carter, Montague Co., Texas: EF1
Ennis, Texas: EF1
east southeast of Cleburne, Texas: EF0
Published: May 16, 2013, 9:51 PM EDT weather.com
Lightning strikes from a storm illuminate a home damaged by a tornado on Hyde Park Lane at Country Club Rd. in Cleburne, May 15, 2013. (The Dallas Morning News, Tom Fox)
The number of tornadoes confirmed in North Texas Wednesday night has now increased to 16, including an EF4 twister that claimed six lives in the town of Granbury.
Several survey teams documented the damage Thursday. The NWS released new details on the strength and location of the tornadoes.
Granbury, Texas: EF4; wind speeds as high as 200 mph
Cleburne, Texas: EF3
Millsap, Texas: EF1
Pecan Plantation, Texas: EF1
near Lake Amon G. Carter, Montague Co., Texas: EF1
Ennis, Texas: EF1
east southeast of Cleburne, Texas: EF0
The NWS confirmed additional tornadoes in Montague, Wise, Mills and Hamilton counties, but investigators are still collecting data and will return those findings over the next few days.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
12 dead in Arkansas flooding
June 11, 2010 11:50 a.m. EDT
Arkansas state police officer Bill Sadler told CNN the search is on for people still trapped in the area, a rugged stretch of western Arkansas.
"The primary mission of the Arkansas state police working with local authorities right now is to get the living out of the area and locate the dead," Sadler told CNN.
Sadler said there are two helicopters in the area working to locate and assist rescuing the living. He said local authorities are providing search volunteers.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/11/arkansas.campground.deaths/?hpt=T1
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Arkansas state police officer Bill Sadler told CNN the search is on for people still trapped in the area, a rugged stretch of western Arkansas.
"The primary mission of the Arkansas state police working with local authorities right now is to get the living out of the area and locate the dead," Sadler told CNN.
Sadler said there are two helicopters in the area working to locate and assist rescuing the living. He said local authorities are providing search volunteers.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/11/arkansas.campground.deaths/?hpt=T1
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Haiti Earthquake Leaves Thousands Dead or Missing (Update1)
January 13, 2010, 03:01 AM EST Story Tools
By Thomas Black and Andres R. Martinez
Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, was struck by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake near the capital that destroyed buildings and left thousands of people dead or missing.
The temblor was centered 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince, a city of about 2 million inhabitants, at 4:53 p.m. local time yesterday, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. An official casualty count has yet to be announced and phone lines are out across the capital.
Port-au-Prince is in “total chaos,” with clouds of dust from collapsed buildings covering the city and fears that thousands may be dead, Robyn Fieser, a spokeswoman with the Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, said after receiving reports from representatives in the country. At least 13 aftershocks with a magnitude above 4.5 have struck the area, according to the USGS.
Haiti, a nation of about 9.6 million people, is recovering from four tropical storms or hurricanes that killed at least 800 people in 2008.
The UN, which has a peacekeeping force of about 7,000 personnel and 2,000 police in Haiti, said its offices were damaged and that a “large amount of personnel” are unaccounted for. The force has been stationed there since June 2004, after President Bertrand Aristide left the country in exile.
“There is no security problem in our headquarters,” Alain Le Roy, UN under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations, said in an e-mailed statement. “But we don’t know about the rest of the city so far.”
UN Rescue Effort
Some U.N. troops have surrounded the headquarters building and are trying to rescue people still trapped inside, Le Roy said. “As we speak, no one has been rescued from this main headquarters, but we don’t know how many people were in the building when the collapse happened.”
A school with children in its rooms collapsed in Port-au- Prince, according to the UN Children’s Fund, Unicef. A hospital was destroyed in Petionville, a district near the city, the Associated Press reported. CNN, citing Haiti’s first lady, said parts of the presidential palace collapsed. President Rene Preval is safe, she said.
Unicef’s headquarters suffered “considerable damage,” Tamar Hahn, a spokeswoman for the fund, said by phone from Panama. “We are waiting for daybreak in Haiti to really be able to assess the extent of the damage.”
Citigroup Inc.’s office building in the capital collapsed, CNN en Espanol reported, citing a company official. Jon Diat, a Citigroup spokesman, said in an e-mail he couldn’t confirm anything.
U.S. Embassy employees reported seeing a number of bodies in the street, State Department Spokesman Philip J. Crowley said in a briefing yesterday. At least two U.S. citizens, both members of the Haitian Ministries for the Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, were trapped in a collapsed building, AP reported.
U.S. Offers Assistance
“There’s going to be serious loss of life,” Crowley said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. is offering full assistance to Haiti.
“We will be providing both civilian and military disaster relief and humanitarian assistance,” Clinton said during remarks in Honolulu yesterday. “And our prayers are with the people who have suffered, their families, and their loved ones.”
Houses slipped down hills, walls collapsed and landslides left roads blocked, which will impede any response by authorities, Ian Rodgers, a senior emergency adviser at Save the Children in Port-au-Prince, said in an interview on CNN. People are digging through rubble to find loved ones, Rodgers said.
More than 100 workers from Unicef in Haiti are helping the injured and providing for children separated from their parents, said Caryl Stern, the president of the U.S. fund of Unicef in New York.
“It’s a really densely populated area. It couldn’t be worse,” said Stern, who has been in contact with Unicef workers in Haiti. “It’s going to take a big world effort.”
Phones Out
Fixed-line and mobile phones in the capital are out, U.S. State Department spokesman Noel Clay said in Washington.
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved $200,000 in emergency aid to Haiti, the Washington-based lender said in a statement on its Web site today.
Rafael Nunez, a presidential spokesman for neighboring Dominican Republic, said the earthquake felt “very strong.” No damage was reported in the Dominican Republic, Nunez said in an interview with CNN en Espanol.
Haiti’s per capita income is about $560, with 54 percent of Haitians living on less than $1 a day and 78 percent on less than $2 daily, according to the World Bank.
“This is the worst possible time for a natural disaster in Haiti, a country which is still recovering from the devastating storms of just over a year ago,” Eliot Engel, a New York congressman who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, said in a statement.
Former President Bill Clinton, the UN special envoy for Haiti, said the world body is “committed to do whatever we can to assist the people of Haiti in their relief, rebuilding and recovery efforts.”
--With assistance from Jerry Hart in Miami, Edward DeMarco in Washington, Peter Green in New York and Eric Sabo in Panama City. Editors: Paul Tighe, Dave McCombs
To contact the reporters on this story: Thomas Black in Monterrey, Mexico, at +52-81-8124-0145 or tblack@bloomberg.net; To contact the reporter on this story: Andres Martinez in Mexico City at +52-55-5242-9283 or amartinez28@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Joshua Goodman at +55-21-2125-2535 or jgoodman19@bloomberg.net; Bill Austin at +81-3-3201-8952 or billaustin@bloomberg.net
By Thomas Black and Andres R. Martinez
Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, was struck by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake near the capital that destroyed buildings and left thousands of people dead or missing.
The temblor was centered 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince, a city of about 2 million inhabitants, at 4:53 p.m. local time yesterday, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. An official casualty count has yet to be announced and phone lines are out across the capital.
Port-au-Prince is in “total chaos,” with clouds of dust from collapsed buildings covering the city and fears that thousands may be dead, Robyn Fieser, a spokeswoman with the Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, said after receiving reports from representatives in the country. At least 13 aftershocks with a magnitude above 4.5 have struck the area, according to the USGS.
Haiti, a nation of about 9.6 million people, is recovering from four tropical storms or hurricanes that killed at least 800 people in 2008.
The UN, which has a peacekeeping force of about 7,000 personnel and 2,000 police in Haiti, said its offices were damaged and that a “large amount of personnel” are unaccounted for. The force has been stationed there since June 2004, after President Bertrand Aristide left the country in exile.
“There is no security problem in our headquarters,” Alain Le Roy, UN under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations, said in an e-mailed statement. “But we don’t know about the rest of the city so far.”
UN Rescue Effort
Some U.N. troops have surrounded the headquarters building and are trying to rescue people still trapped inside, Le Roy said. “As we speak, no one has been rescued from this main headquarters, but we don’t know how many people were in the building when the collapse happened.”
A school with children in its rooms collapsed in Port-au- Prince, according to the UN Children’s Fund, Unicef. A hospital was destroyed in Petionville, a district near the city, the Associated Press reported. CNN, citing Haiti’s first lady, said parts of the presidential palace collapsed. President Rene Preval is safe, she said.
Unicef’s headquarters suffered “considerable damage,” Tamar Hahn, a spokeswoman for the fund, said by phone from Panama. “We are waiting for daybreak in Haiti to really be able to assess the extent of the damage.”
Citigroup Inc.’s office building in the capital collapsed, CNN en Espanol reported, citing a company official. Jon Diat, a Citigroup spokesman, said in an e-mail he couldn’t confirm anything.
U.S. Embassy employees reported seeing a number of bodies in the street, State Department Spokesman Philip J. Crowley said in a briefing yesterday. At least two U.S. citizens, both members of the Haitian Ministries for the Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, were trapped in a collapsed building, AP reported.
U.S. Offers Assistance
“There’s going to be serious loss of life,” Crowley said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. is offering full assistance to Haiti.
“We will be providing both civilian and military disaster relief and humanitarian assistance,” Clinton said during remarks in Honolulu yesterday. “And our prayers are with the people who have suffered, their families, and their loved ones.”
Houses slipped down hills, walls collapsed and landslides left roads blocked, which will impede any response by authorities, Ian Rodgers, a senior emergency adviser at Save the Children in Port-au-Prince, said in an interview on CNN. People are digging through rubble to find loved ones, Rodgers said.
More than 100 workers from Unicef in Haiti are helping the injured and providing for children separated from their parents, said Caryl Stern, the president of the U.S. fund of Unicef in New York.
“It’s a really densely populated area. It couldn’t be worse,” said Stern, who has been in contact with Unicef workers in Haiti. “It’s going to take a big world effort.”
Phones Out
Fixed-line and mobile phones in the capital are out, U.S. State Department spokesman Noel Clay said in Washington.
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved $200,000 in emergency aid to Haiti, the Washington-based lender said in a statement on its Web site today.
Rafael Nunez, a presidential spokesman for neighboring Dominican Republic, said the earthquake felt “very strong.” No damage was reported in the Dominican Republic, Nunez said in an interview with CNN en Espanol.
Haiti’s per capita income is about $560, with 54 percent of Haitians living on less than $1 a day and 78 percent on less than $2 daily, according to the World Bank.
“This is the worst possible time for a natural disaster in Haiti, a country which is still recovering from the devastating storms of just over a year ago,” Eliot Engel, a New York congressman who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, said in a statement.
Former President Bill Clinton, the UN special envoy for Haiti, said the world body is “committed to do whatever we can to assist the people of Haiti in their relief, rebuilding and recovery efforts.”
--With assistance from Jerry Hart in Miami, Edward DeMarco in Washington, Peter Green in New York and Eric Sabo in Panama City. Editors: Paul Tighe, Dave McCombs
To contact the reporters on this story: Thomas Black in Monterrey, Mexico, at +52-81-8124-0145 or tblack@bloomberg.net; To contact the reporter on this story: Andres Martinez in Mexico City at +52-55-5242-9283 or amartinez28@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Joshua Goodman at +55-21-2125-2535 or jgoodman19@bloomberg.net; Bill Austin at +81-3-3201-8952 or billaustin@bloomberg.net
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