Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi confirmed dead after helicopter crash

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi attends a press conference concluding his appearance at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, U.S., September 20, 2023.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash.

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Flying a helicopter in fog can be a recipe for disaster — Kobe Bryant and now Iran's president add to a string of deaths

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Kobe Bryant
A composite image of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Kobe Bryant.

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In response to a string of deaths, Airbnb CEO says it's 'really hard' to make hosts install carbon monoxide detectors

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.

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A teen posing as an oligarch's son mysteriously jumped to his death after befriending a gangster and a crypto millionaire

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Vauxhall Bridge near luxury apartments along London's River Thames
Vauxhall Bridge near luxury apartments along London's River Thames.

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Oppenheimer's famous quote 'I am become Death' isn't really his. The ominous words come from Hindu scripture.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.
J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.

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Man dies mid-flight after breaking out in 'cold sweats' and losing 'liters of blood,' scaring his fellow passengers

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A Lufthansa Airbus A340.

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From KFC to rockets, how the massive Gaza tunnel network kept evolving

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Tunnels have run under Gaza for decades. But when Hamas took over, the underground network expanded into what Israel calls its biggest military threat. We decoded the long history of the Gaza tunnels to find out what makes it so hard to destroy.

Machine learning can accurately predict death nearly 80% of the time, a new study found

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Researchers studied 6 million people in Denmark to create a deep-learning model able to predict mortality.

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The deputy editor of newspaper favored by Putin was found dead in her apartment at 35, just a year after the paper's editor-in-chief died

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Russian men read a copy of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper as they sit in a park in central Moscow August 22, 2000.
Russian men read a copy of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper as they sit in a park in central Moscow August 22, 2000.

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A US tourist died after being attacked by a shark while paddleboarding at a Sandals resort in the Bahamas

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Officials carry a wheeled stretcher over the sand at a beach resort at the Bahamas on an overcast day. A red cover obscures the body of a female tourist after what police described as a fatal shark attack on December 4, 2023.
Officials transport the body of a female tourist after what police described as a fatal shark attack in waters near Sandals Royal Bahamian resort, in Nassau, Bahamas, December 4, 2023.

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