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Pope Leo XIV joins in the mourning of the families and of the entire Swiss Confederation” and “wishes to express to the ...

About 40 people were killed and around 119 others injured in a fire at a New Year’s party in a Swiss ski resort bar, according to police. Follow for live updates.

Some digital services in India were impacted around the Christmas period after a telephone exchange in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, ...

Swiss authorities have said that a deadly fire at a ski resort bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, rapidly developed into a “flashover” – a dangerous phenomenon in which everything in a room ignites ...

Videos and photos have begun to emerge showing the moments before the blaze tore through the Le Constellation bar in ...

A devastating fire and explosion tore through a packed bar in the Swiss Alps during New Year's celebrations, leaving dozens ...

Officials said it could take weeks to identify the 40 people killed in a New Year's Eve explosion and fire at a bar in ...

A flashover was involved in the 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people, a disaster that Mr. Kerber said ...

Submitted Photo This photo is a closeup of the explosion and fire at a tank battery site, about 15 miles east of Watford City ...

Nearly 50 people are dead and more than 100 others were seriously injured after a blaze tore through a crowded New Year’s Eve ...