61 h. ago India festival horror as three crushed to death and 15 rushed to hospital after 'crowd surge'

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees gathered in the Indian coastal town of Puri for the grand Rath Yatra festival - where 15 people had to be rushed to hospital after being crushed in a crowd surge

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61 h. ago Stampede at major festival as 500 people injured in chaotic scenes during intense heat

More than 500 people were injured in a "stampede-like scenario" at the Ratha Yatra festival in eastern India on June 27, after a crowd surge caused panic

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66 h. ago 3 killed and over a dozen hospitalized as crowd surges at eastern India Hindu festival

Three people have been killed and more than a dozen hospitalized following a sudden crowd surge at a popular Hindu festival in eastern India’s coastal town of Puri

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69 h. ago Three devotees killed and over 50 injured in crowd crush at India chariot festival

Jagannath Rath Yatra draws over a million people to Puri city every year

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3 d. ago Hundreds fall ill amid sweltering heat and overcrowding at India chariot festival

More than 625 devotees need medical treatment and 70 remain hospitalised after crowd crush at Jagannath Rath Yatra in Puri

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6 d. ago The world wants China’s rare earth elements – what is life like in the city that produces them?

More than 80% of China’s rare earth reserves are located in Baotou, an industrial hub of 2.7 million people that abuts the Gobi desertCentral Baotou, an industrial hub of 2.7 million people that abuts the Gobi desert in north China, feels just like any other second-tier Chinese city. Large shopping malls featuring western chains including Starbucks and KFC stand alongside street after street of busy local restaurants, where people sit outside and children play late into the evening, enjoying the relative relief of the cooler temperatures that arrive after dark in Inner Mongolia’s baking summer.But a short drive into the city’s suburbs reveal another typical, less hospitable, Chinese scene. Factories crowd the city’s edges, with chimneys belching white plumes of smoke. As well as steel and silicon plants, Baotou is home to China’s monopoly on rare earths, the metallic elements that are used in oil refining equipment and car batteries and that have become a major sticking point in the...

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6 d. ago How releasing his father's soul left British journalist high as a kite: ROLAND WHITE reviews Amol Rajan Goes To The Ganges

In part to heal his grief, but mainly because the BBC suggested it, Amol flew to India to attend the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela, a huge gathering of pilgrims on the banks of the Ganges.

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8 d. ago Devastated mom's chilling cry as her 'sweet' twin girls, 6, are killed in horror storm after tree crushes their house

Six-year-old twin girls, Emily and Kenni Bisson, were killed when the ferocious winds knocked a tree down onto their home in upstate New York on Sunday.

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3 w. ago Palestinians say Israel and its allies fired on a crowd near Gaza aid site. Hospital says 14 killed

Palestinians say Israeli forces and allied local gunmen fired toward a crowd heading to an Israeli- and U.S.-supported food distribution center in the Gaza Strip

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3 w. ago Loose Women star shares health update after nightmarish diagnosis left her looking 'permanently dishevelled'

The presenter, 55, who quit the show in 2020, was 24 hours from death after being rushed to hospital with severe pneumonia and sepsis at the end of last year.

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