2025 • Nov 28
Rescue operations at Hong Kong apartment complex ‘almost complete’, as death toll reaches 128
Firefighters comb through high-rises with as many as 200 people still missing, officials announce
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2025 • Nov 27
‘There should have been an alarm’: in air thick with acrid smoke, people in Hong Kong are reeling and angry
As apartment complex still blazes more than 24 hours after fire began, police suspect cause is owing to ‘grossly negligent’ action
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2025 • Nov 27
Mark Carney reaches deal with Alberta for oil pipeline opposed by First Nations
Prime minister says deal ‘sets the state for an industrial transformation’, but project is likely to face wide oppositionMark Carney has agreed an energy deal with Alberta centred on plans f...
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2025 • Nov 27
Venezuela bans six international airlines as tensions with US escalate
Carriers accused of joining ‘actions of state terrorism promoted by US’ after they suspended flights to VenezuelaVenezuela has banned six international airlines, accusing them of “state terr...
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2025 • Nov 27
Death toll in Hong Kong tower block fire rises to 44 with hundreds still missing
Three arrests made after huge blaze broke out at Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai Po district on Wednesday
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2025 • Nov 27
Hong Kong fire latest: rescue crews search for survivors after 55 killed and hundreds reported missing
Three men arrested as 26 rescue teams on site at Wang Fuk Court residential apartment complex in Tai Po district. Follow the latest updates live
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2025 • Nov 27
Hong Kong fire: police blame construction firm’s ‘gross negligence’ as death toll rises to 55
Three construction industry employees arrested after police allege unsafe scaffolding materials may have been behind fire’s rapid spread
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2025 • Nov 26
Bamboo scaffolding may be to blame for spread of Hong Kong tower block fire
Hong Kong is one of the last places in the world where bamboo is widely used by construction workers
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2025 • Nov 26
US justice department memo about boat strikes diverges from Trump narrative
Exclusive: Officials frame strikes as self-defense against violence, without naming aggressor, while Trump claims they are to stop US overdose deathsThe
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2025 • Nov 26
Trump threatens Venezuela’s Maduro with ‘the easy way … or the hard way’
Venezuela president vows to defend ‘every inch’ of the country amid military buildup in Caribbean
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2025 • Nov 26
Noem made decision to continue deportation flights to El Salvador, justice department says
Justice department maintains that Trump administration didn’t violate judge’s order to return flights to USThe Department of Justice said in a statement that Kristi Noem, secretary of the De...
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2025 • Nov 26
Guinea-Bissau military takes ‘total control’ amid election chaos
Officers say they are closing borders and suspending poll as president and main rival both claim victory Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced they are taking “total control” of the west...
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