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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Hong Kong’s chief executive said he will establish an independent committee to examine and reform the city’s building-work system as part of efforts to prevent future disasters following the deadly Tai Po fire.  John Lee told reporters at a news conference Tuesday that reforms are urgently needed after at least 159 people …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An Indian fighter jet crashed Friday at the Dubai Air Show in the United Arab Emirates, killing the pilot onboard, officials said.  Videos circulating on social media showed the IAF Tejas aircraft bursting into flames as it struck the ground, drawing gasps from crowds gathered at the event.  “The pilot sustained fatal …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A massive bridge at a hydropower station in southwest China collapsed Tuesday, sending concrete and steel plunging into a river just months after it opened, according to Chinese state media. Reuters reported that an official from Barkam County confirmed the collapse to the Chinese state-run Global Times, saying no casualties had been …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An avalanche on Monday swept through a camp in Nepal, killing five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides, officials said. Five foreigners were injured at the base camp on Mount Yalung Ri, located at 16,070 feet. Their nationalities and identities have not been disclosed. A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The only survivor of June’s Air India crash in the Indian City of Ahmedabad told BBC News he feels like the “luckiest man” alive – but said the label feels cruel as he mourns his brother and struggles with the physical and mental wounds left by the tragedy. Viswashkumar Ramesh, 39, was …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A hot-air balloon carrying 21 people in Brazil caught fire Saturday morning and crashed, killing at least eight people, Santa Catarina’s military fire brigade said.  The crash happened in Santa Catarina, a state in Brazil’s south, after the fire started in the basket, forcing the pilot to attempt to land, officials said.  …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Viswashkumar Ramesh, the lone survivor from the flight that crashed shortly after taking off from the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, described his survival as a “miracle” while speaking to DD India. “I can’t explain,” he said. The Boeing 787-8 crash had been bound for London Gatwick Airport, Air India explained …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An Air India passenger plane carrying more than 200 people crashed Thursday after taking off from an airport in the Indian city of Ahmedabad. Air India flight AI 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London’s Gatwick Airport, crashed into a residential area called Meghani Nagar five minutes after taking off at …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Several people were feared dead and many more injured in a stampede on Wednesday as crowds tried to make their way inside a cricket stadium in southern India’s Karnataka state. The crush happened as thousands of cricket fans gathered outside the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru city to celebrate the winners of …

Torrents of predawn rain unleashed flooding that killed at least 111 people in a market town where northern Nigerian farmers sell their wares to traders from the south, officials said Friday, predicting the death toll would grow. The Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency did not immediately say how much rain fell after midnight Thursday in the town of Mokwa in the …