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Victims of Florida condo collapse could receive nearly $1bn in settlement
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A nearly $1bn tentative settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit brought by families of victims and survivors of last June’s condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, an attorney said Wednesday. Harley S...
Scaffolding collapse in west London seriously injures two men
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Two men have been left with potentially life-threatening injuries after scaffolding attached to a town hall collapsed in west London. Dozens of police, fire and ambulance vehicles attended Hammersmith town hall in Kin...
Survivor found in rubble six days after China building collapse
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Rescuers in central China have pulled a woman alive from the rubble of a building that partially collapsed almost six days earlier, state media reported Thursday. The unidentified woman is the 10th survivor of the dis...
Residents ordered to evacuate building near to site of Miami condo collapse
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Residents of a five-storey apartment building in North Miami Beach have been ordered to evacuate after officials deemed the building “structurally unsound” during its 50-year recertification process, officials said. T...
Collapse of Safe Hands puts funeral plan buyers’ money at risk
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Thousands of people who had saved up to pay for their funeral risk losing money after the plan provider Safe Hands collapsed into administration. The restructuring firm appointed to handle the process, FRP, said it wa...
Almost 90% of Debenhams stores still lie empty a year after collapse
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Nearly 90% of former Debenhams stores remain empty almost a year after the department store closed its doors for the last time, in a sign of the challenge to reinvent high streets across the country. The empty shops a...
Probuild collapse: administrators investigate $50m transferred to civil construction division
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Administrators of the collapsed Probuild building empire say they will investigate a transaction last year in which almost $50m was transferred from other parts of the business to the group’s struggling civil construc...
Enmore theatre floor collapse during Genesis Owusu concert – video
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Just weeks after its long-awaited reopening with the end of Covid restrictions, a sold-out show at Sydney's Enmore theatre was forced to abruptly end after two songs when the floor caved in. 'There’s a real deep drop ...
Russian central bank buys up roubles to avert stock market collapse
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The Russian central bank has purchased millions of roubles to prevent the collapse of the Moscow stock exchange and prop up the currency after it plunged to an all-time low of 89.60 against the dollar. In a scramble t...
Living in a woman’s body: like Earth, we are changing quickly through the violence of climate collapse
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The story my body wants to tell is that my body and the body of Earth are One. Our power and the power of Earth are intrinsically bound in generosity and regeneration, not scarcity and sacrifice. Renewal, abundance, ...
Merger talks between LV= and Royal London collapse
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Merger talks between the mutual insurer LV= and Royal London have broken down. It is the second time within two months that a deal to buy the 178-year-old firm, originally known as Liverpool Victoria, has collapsed. ...
Biden heads to Pittsburgh to give talk on $1tn infrastructure plan following bridge collapse – live
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Man killed and two seriously injured in Lancashire bridge collapse
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A man has died and two people have been seriously injured in Lancashire after a vehicle and a trailer fell into a river when a bridge collapsed. Eleven people were thrown from a Polaris Ranger and its trailer when a c...
Amazon faces lawsuit over deadly tornado warehouse collapse
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The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The action on behalf of Austin McEwen, 26, was file...
England collapse again in fifth Test as Australia ease to 4-0 Ashes series win
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The lights were on but there was nobody home for England. A frankly disastrous Ashes tour that can only end with changes in leadership and direction was summed up by one final collapse in Hobart as Australia emphatica...
Philadelphia QB Jalen Hurts urges NFL to act over Washington barrier collapse
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In an open letter, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has called on the NFL and the Washington Football Team to improve safety measures at FedExField after a railing collapsed at the stadium on Sunday. In...