12 h. ago Afghanistan earthquake kills more than 800 and injures another 2,500 as rescuers search rubble for survivors

Officials warn death toll could rise as rescue efforts hampered by landslides

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20 h. ago Afghanistan earthquake latest: At least 800 dead and 2,500 injured as rescuers search rubble for survivors

Rescue operations still underway as officials say several villages are completely destroyed

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21 h. ago Afghanistan earthquake latest: At least 622 dead and 1,500 injured as rescuers search rubble for survivors

Rescue operations still underway as officials say several villages are completely destroyed

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23 h. ago Afghanistan earthquake sees more than 600 dead and 1,500 injured

According to the Kunar Disaster Management Authority the quake measured 6.0 magnitude.

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23 h. ago More than 600 dead in Afghanistan earthquake with at least 1,500 people injured after devastating 6.0 magnitude quake strikes overnight

The wave hit a series of towns at 11.47pm in the province of Kunar near the Pakistan border centred 17 miles northeast of the city of Jalabad in Nangarhar.

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23 h. ago Afghanistan earthquake UPDATES: Entire villages destroyed as 6.0 tremor kills 622

The massive earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan and destroyed villages and shook buildings from the capital Kabul all the way toward Pakistan's capital Islamabad

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2 w. ago ‘50 years of anger and pain’: Miami Sounband’s Des Lee when Irish terrorists colluded with MI5 to massacre Ireland’s biggest band

The band were as big as it got, topping the Irish singles chart seven times. Then they were stopped at a bogus checkpoint in County Down – and three were shot dead. Fifty years on, survivor Des Lee looks back on that terrible night‘It was absolutely despicable,” says Des Lee, his voice trembling with emotion, “to think that those people who were supposed to be protecting us had planned our murder ” I’ve never heard a story as astonishing as Lee’s. His memoir, My Saxophone Saved My Life, recounts the events of half a century ago, in which his much-loved pop group, the Miami Showband, were ambushed by loyalist paramilitaries operating a fake army checkpoint, with half his bandmates murdered as he lay still, playing dead to stay alive.Though the attack carries strangely little traction in Britain, the Miami Showband massacre of 1975 is deeply etched into Irish cultural memory. Even amid the context of the Troubles, whose bleak statistics – more than 3,600 dead, more than 47,500 injured...

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2 w. ago The Miami Showband massacre: what led to the killing of the ‘Irish Beatles’?

The band were as big as it got, topping the Irish singles chart seven times. Then they were stopped at a bogus checkpoint in County Down – and three were shot dead. Fifty years on, survivor Des Lee looks back on that terrible night‘It was absolutely despicable,” says Des Lee, his voice trembling with emotion, “to think that those people who were supposed to be protecting us had planned our murder ” I’ve never heard a story as astonishing as Lee’s. His memoir, My Saxophone Saved My Life, recounts the events of half a century ago, in which his much-loved pop group, the Miami Showband, were ambushed by loyalist paramilitaries operating a fake army checkpoint, with half his bandmates murdered as he lay still, playing dead to stay alive.Though the attack carries strangely little traction in Britain, the Miami Showband massacre of 1975 is deeply etched into Irish cultural memory. Even amid the context of the Troubles, whose bleak statistics – more than 3,600 dead, more than 47,500 injured...

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