5 h. ago Families grieve as officials start handing remains of victims killed in Air India crash

Khushboo Rajpurohit, a 21-year-old newlywed, was among 241 passengers killed in Air India crash. Her family travelled over 500km to receive her mortal remains, Namita Singh reports

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52 h. ago Air India plane crash latest: Black box recovered from Dreamliner wreckage as grieving families demand answers

Families demand answers after worst air crash in a decade kills 241

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3 d. ago Air India owners offering £86k to families of passengers killed in Ahmedabad plane crash

Tata Sons, which owns Air India, will offer around £86,000 to the families of each person who died in the Ahmedabad plane crash, the company said on Wednesday in a statement

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3 d. ago Families of those killed in collapse of Georgia ferry dock sue companies that built it

Relatives of seven people who drowned last fall when a walkway collapsed at a state-operated ferry dock on a Georgia island are suing the companies that built it

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5 d. ago Nottingham attack families ask Streeting for names of staff who treated killer

Valdo Calocane killed students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and caretaker Ian Coates, 65, in the city in June 2023.

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7 d. ago ‘A momentous day’: families of Britons killed in 1980 oil rig disaster finally win compensation

Norway will set up state payment scheme for families of 123 men killed in Kielland disaster, but some feel it comes too late“I think we all feel like we’ve had a bit of a weight lifted off our shoulders,” said Laura Fleming after an important milestone in one of Europe’s longest-running industrial disaster sagas. “It is just 45 years too late.”Fleming’s father, Michael, was one of 123 men who were killed when the Alexander L Kielland accommodation rig capsized during a fierce storm in the Norwegian North Sea oilfields on 27 March 1980. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Boeing agrees to pay families of victims killed in 737 Max crashes $444.5m as plane maker avoids prosecution in deal described as 'morally repugnant'

The move has been blasted by the victims' families' lawyer, Sanjiv Singh, who said the deal was a 'morally repugnant' escape which allowed the firm to 'sidestep true criminal accountability'.

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9 d. ago Families of children killed in Hillcrest jumping castle incident ‘shattered’ after not guilty verdict

Rosemary Gamble, owner of Taz-Zorb which set up the equipment in Tasmania, had pleaded not guilty to failing to comply with workplace safety lawsAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe families of the six children killed in a primary school jumping castle incident are angry after the operator who set up the castle was found not guilty of a workplace safety charge.Chace Harrison, Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones, Zane Mellor, Addison Stewart, Jye Sheehan and Peter Dodt died after the incident at Hillcrest primary school in Devonport in December 2021.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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1 week ago Former celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi gets 7 years in prison for stealing millions from clients

A federal judge sentenced disbarred celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi to seven years and three months in prison for embezzling tens of millions of dollars from his clients, including several with severe physical injuries and families of people killed in accidents

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2 w. ago ‘It’s thrilling’: almost three centuries of the Belfast News Letter go online

The surviving editions of the world’s oldest, continuously published English-language daily can now be accessed freeThere was a packed news agenda on 3 October 1738. The father of the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin had been arrested after being found with a stolen horse. Cannon fire rang out in St Petersburg to mark a Russian victory over the Ottoman Empire. In America, four families had been killed in Virginia in clashes with Native Americans. Meanwhile, a horse fell in the Thames at Westminster, nearly causing a drowning.Welcome to the pages of the Belfast News Letter, where updates on the French Revolution run alongside adverts for brandy and the American Declaration of Independence was reported as a contemporary event. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Michigan court ends effort to sue Oxford school staff over 2021 mass shooting

The Michigan Supreme Court had dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021

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2 w. ago Funeral of 3 siblings killed in Russian strike underscores mounting toll on Ukrainian families

Three open coffins, one adult-sized, one medium and one child-sized, lay inside the Soviet-era Palace of Culture in a northern Ukrainian city

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2 w. ago Families of two teens killed in horror crash speak out after gangs 'terrorise' residents

The loved ones of Kailem Robinson and Kaine Darby 'do not condone any trouble' in the Lower Broughton area, police say

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2 w. ago Families of those killed in 1994 Chinook helicopter crash call for sealed documents to be released

Bereaved families renew call for inquiry and demand access to documents that have been sealed away until 2094Families bereaved after a Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, which remains one of the RAF’s worst peacetime losses of life, have demanded the release of documents sealed for 100 years.RAF Chinook ZD576 was carrying 25 British intelligence personnel from RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland to a conference at Fort George, near Inverness, Scotland, when it crashed in foggy weather on 2 June 1994. All the passengers – made up of personnel from MI5, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the British army – were killed, along with the helicopter’s four crew members. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Families of those killed in 1994 RAF Chinook crash speak out for the first time in fight for answers

Loved ones of those who died say they “deserve answers” on why their loved ones never came home.

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3 w. ago Fundraiser for families of Bicester firefighters who were killed in aerodrome inferno reaches £7k

Jennie Logan, 30, and Martyn Sadler, 38, died while tackling the blaze at Bicester Motion, Oxfordshire on Thursday evening.

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3 w. ago The Bombing of Pan Am 103 review – this kind, cheesy Lockerbie show just doesn’t work as TV

It was an act of terrorism that rocked the world. But though this well meaning BBC drama has some startling and impressive moments, it mainly forgets to actually find any dramaThe bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988 was an event so large, so complex and so significant that for a long time it was hard for anyone to take a clear view on it. Many elements remain murky to this day, despite – or perhaps because of – it being an act of terror that was unprecedented in its effect on Britain and the US. The plane exploded over the small town of Lockerbie in Scotland, having taken off from London on its way to New York and Detroit, completing a journey that began in Frankfurt. The hunt for the perpetrators soon focused on the Middle East and north Africa. With half the world demanding answers, the families of the 270 people killed found it difficult to be heard.The hidden human cost of the post-crash chaos is where The Bombing of Pan Am 103, a six-part fictionalisation, initiall...

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4 w. ago Israeli airstrikes kill 100 in Gaza Strip with ‘complete families’ wiped out, health ministry says

Israel is preparing for a new ground offensive to achieve ‘operational control’

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4 w. ago Israeli airstrikes kill 100 in Gaza Strip, with ‘complete families’ wiped out

Israel is preparing for a new ground offensive to achieve ‘operational control’

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4 w. ago Families of victims appalled as Boeing seems likely to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes

Trump’s justice department is considering a non-prosecution agreement, through which Boeing would not need to plead guiltyBoeing is set to avoid prosecution in a fraud case sparked by two fatal crashes of its bestselling 737 Max jet that killed 346 people, according to sources familiar with the matter.The US Department of Justice is considering a non-prosecution agreement, relatives of the victims were told on Friday, through which the US aerospace giant would not be required to plead guilty. Continue reading...

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