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27 dead, hundreds injured in Bucharest club explosion OCTOBER 31, 2015 |  EDIT Image gallery thumbnail Bucharest club explosion may be  cause of the explosion has not yet been officially confirmed, but according to reports the performance was supposed to have been accompanied by a pyrotechnics show that apparently went terribly wrong. The fireworks reportedly set the stage installations on fire, causing thick smoke and forcing the audience flee to the exit, causing a stampede, according to a witness cited by someseanul.ro. “There was a stampede of people running out of the club,”  Dozens of people suffered severe burns, according to first responders on the ground. Some reports have stated that part of the club’s roof collapsed, further injuring people inside. Deputy Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea, according to Realitatea TV. In total nearly 180 people were admitted to the city’s hospitals, according to healthcare undersecretary Raed Arafat.27 people hav...

Russian passenger aircraft with 220 onboard crashes OCTOBER 31, 2015 |  EDIT BLACK BOXES REPORTEDLY FOUND AT PLANE CRASH SITE IN SINAI EI-ETJ is an Airbus A321 that belongs to airline Kogalymavia airline. The flight was traveling from the Egyptian resort to St. Petersburg. It belonged to the Kogalymavia airline, which also uses the brand name Metrojet, an operator popular among Russian tourists going to Egypt. The plane was supposed to contact air traffic in Turkish Cyprus’ Larnaca after leaving Egypt’s airspace, but failed to do so. A source at Sharm El-Sheikh Airport told RIA Novosti the pilot of the missing plane requested a change of course, saying the jet would have to land in Cairo. The source said the crew of the crashed plane had complained to the airport’s technical service that the jet had engine problems.Russian plane carrying over 220 people from Egypt to Russia disappeared from radars, and crashed in central Sinai, according to ...

News from the Tow Center View this email in your browser UPCOMING EVENTS Tow Tea: Parsing Tech Talk On Thursday, November 5th, the  Tow Center for Digital Journalism  hosts  Farai Chideya  and  Josh Begley  of  The Intercept , along with  Columbia Journalism School's    Marguerite Holloway  for a Tow Tea on "Parsing Tech Talk."  The discussion will focus on tips and strategies for effectively reporting on science, medicine and technology - as well as how best to communicate these complex topics to a general audience. More seats added!  RSVP here Race and Digital Media Online publishing is no longer simply the open democratic space we were promised in the early days of the Internet. The media environment certainly allows for certain new forms of free expression, and has created opportunities for stories and voices that may not have found an audience ...

Sky News  ‏ @ SkyNews   10h 10 hours ago UK likely to lose coveted ‘AAA’ credit rating should country vote to leave EU, agency warns  http:// trib.al/rRUGlF6   Naresh Kumar Sagar October 30, 2015 Edit International Day to End Impunity of Crimes against Journalists 2 November 2015   Message of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Today we remember the journalists and media workers who have been killed in the line of duty. More than 700 journalists have been killed in the last decade — one every five days — simply for bringing news and information to the public. Many perish in the conflicts they cover so fearlessly. But all too many have been deliberately silenced for trying to report the truth. Only 7 per cent of such cases are resolved, and less than 1 crime out of 10 is even fully investigated. Such impunity deepens fear among journalists and enables Governments to get away with censorship. We must do more to combat this t...