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Baltimore (AFP) - Demolition experts used explosives Monday to remove part of a collapsed bridge in Baltimore and free a cargo ship that has been trapped since it rammed into the structure in March. The demolition will eventually allow workers to remove the nearly 1,000-foot (300-meter) Dali container vessel which has almost entirely blocked access to one of America's biggest ports for the past six weeks. The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a major transit route, was destroyed in seconds when the Singapore-flagged ship lost power and plowed into a support column, causing the bridge to collapse and k...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States on Wednesday rebuked Israel for demolishing the home of a Palestinian activist in east Jerusalem, saying its ally was damaging its own standing. The unusually forceful US condemnation of Israeli actions came hours after Fakhri Abu Diab, a campaigner against demolitions, said that dozens of Israeli personnel tore down his home of 38 years near the Old City. "Ten of us were living here -- my wife, my three children and five members of the extended family. Now we're literally on the street, asking neighbors and passers-by to help us," Abu Diab told AFP in Jeru...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old photo of a man looking at a structure being demolished is viral online with the false claim that it is from Nuh, Haryana, and that the man is witnessing his house being razed by authorities following the violence in the area. BOOM found that the claims are false-- the photo is at least as old as 2022 and was most likely taken in Khargone, Madhya Pradesh. The Punjab and Haryana High Court on August 7 questioned if the authorities in Nuh were indulging in "ethnic cleansing" after reports of more than 1,200 structures, most belonging to Muslims being demolished, emerged. Th...
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By Ritika Jain Supreme Court on January 5 will hear pleas challenging the proposed demolition of the more than 4,500 homes that have allegedly been built on encroached land belonging to the railways. On December 20, 2022, a division bench of the Uttarakhand High Court directed Indian Railways and local authorities to remove "encroachment" after giving residents a week's notice. Apart from the more than 4,500 homes, the disputed land—measuring almost 2.2 kilometers—also houses three government schools, 11 accredited private schools, 12 madrassas, 10 mosques, one public health care center, and o...
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By Kaisar Andrabi Preetam Kumar, 32, who works at Emerald Court residential society in Noida as a helping staff, is covering all windowpanes, flowerpots, and electronic appliances with polythene. His employer has told him to cover all the entries in order to avoid dust barring inside the house. Residents of Emerald Court and ATS Village societies in Noida have been asked by the authorities to leave their homes on 28 August, according to the finalised evacuation plan for the demolition of the Supertech Twin Towers in the locality. The illegal Noida Twin Towers, which is even taller than Qutub M...
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By Ritika Jain The Jamiat Ulema-i-hind told the Supreme Court that the demolition of private properties must not be seen as individual cases, rather they indicate a pattern of 'collective punishment'. The same pattern is being copied by governments in states like Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and New Delhi as well. The Muslim body denied Uttar Pradesh government's allegations that it cherry-picked cases to falsely link them with rioters and give mala fide colour to lawful action. The Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind said it was the UP govt that cherry-picked laws to demolish private properties in a systematic an...
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Surfside (United States) (AFP) - The death toll climbed to 28 Monday in the collapse of a Florida condo tower, where search work resumed after the dangerously unstable remaining portion of the building was brought down with explosives ahead of a coming tropical storm, officials said. Some 117 people remained missing after the 12-story Champlain Towers South crumbled over a week ago in Surfside, but an Israeli search official put the chances of finding survivors at "close to zero." Still, crews "were in full search and rescue mode" by early Monday, hours after the remaining section of building ...
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New York (AFP) - The former jewel in the crown of Donald Trump's bankrupted Atlantic City casino empire was demolished Wednesday with 3,000 sticks of dynamite. The detonator button was pressed shortly after 9:00 am (1400 GMT), reducing the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino to a pile of rubble in just a few seconds. Closed since 2014, the casino was Trump's first property in the US coastal gambling town in which he came to own several properties. It opened in 1984 and has undergone little to no maintenance since shuttering. On several occasions during storms, pieces of its exterior have fallen onto...
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