14 h. ago Update in search for six people presumed dead in New Zealand landslide

Two teenagers are among the missing

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15 h. ago A search for 6 presumed dead in a New Zealand landslide is expected to take days

Authorities in New Zealand have resumed a search for six people presumed killed in a landslide at a popular beach campsite

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18 h. ago Search for missing kayaker 'presumed dead' enters another day as Storm Ingrid batters the UK

High winds and heavy rain triggered huge waves that washed away part of Teignmouth's historic pier and caused severe damage to a main railway line in Devon.

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37 h. ago Myanmar military proxy expected to win landslide in widely denounced election

Voting ends in month-long poll derided internationally as sham designed to cement army’s grip on powerVoting in Myanmar has ended with the military-backed party expected to win a landslide victory after a month-long election that has been widely derided as a sham designed to cement the army’s grip on power.The junta leader, Min Aung Hlaing, has rejected criticism of the vote, saying it has the support of the public and presenting it as a return to democracy and stability. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Two confirmed dead and more presumed buried after landslides hit house and campground in New Zealand

No survivors or bodies recovered by late Thursday from the Mount Maunganui rubble in the North IslandLandslides hit a house and a campground in New Zealand on Thursday, leaving at least two dead while emergency crews were trying to rescue others buried in rubble, officials said.The first hit a house in the community of Welcome Bay on New Zealand’s North Island at 4:50 a.m., police said. Two people escaped the house, and the bodies of two who were trapped inside were recovered hours later, Emergency Management Minister Mark Mitchell said. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has administered an almighty smackdown to critical favourites One Battle and Hamnet

Coogler’s vampire thriller swept the Oscar nominations over Chloé Zhao’s tearjerker and Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture thriller. This genre-defying drama about the black experience could now rule awards season• Full list of nominees• Sinners becomes first film in history to earn 16 Oscar nominationsAgree with them or not, these Oscar nominations deliver a pert slap to the accepted assumptions of awards season. The industry had been expecting landslides for classy upmarket fare such as Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, and also for Josh Safdie’s delirious comedy Marty Supreme. And that’s what they got.But perhaps no one expected these titles to get quite as colossal a smackdown as they got from Ryan Coogler’s vampire drama thriller Sinners: a violent, high-energy fantasia about racism, music and the black experience, which has soared ahead with 16 nominations – the most for any film in 97 years of the Ac...

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4 d. ago New Zealand landslide latest: Several missing with ‘no sign of life’ for hours after deadly Mount Maunganui floods

Two people are dead and several are missing after landslides ravaged parts of New Zealand’s east coast on Thursday

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4 d. ago Mount Maunganui landslide latest: Two dead and several missing in devastating New Zealand floods

Number of people unaccounted for is in the ‘single figures’, police say

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4 d. ago Shocking moment landslide tears down New Zealand’s Mount Maunganui

Two landslides have torn through New Zealand, leaving at least two people dead and several missing on Thursday (22 January).

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4 d. ago At least two dead in New Zealand landslides as video shows moment caravans are smashed at popular campsite where multiple children are missing

Two people were left dead in a separate slide, which hit a house in the community of Welcome Bay, also on New Zealand's North Island at 4.50am.

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4 d. ago New Zealand landslide leaves two dead as desperate search launched for kids

Two separate landslides hit a house and a campground after heavy rains hit the north island

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4 d. ago Mount Maunganu: Children among several feared dead after landslide hits New Zealand campsite

The landslide sent rubble barrelling down on the campsite in Mount Maunganui, a popular tourist spot on the northern coast of New Zealand’s North Island

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