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Three people are killed in violent clashes between protesters and police in Mangalore and Lucknow. | Three people have died in India and thousands have been detained amid demonstrations against a controversial new citizenship law.
A protest ban has been imposed in parts of the capital Delhi and throughout the states of Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. The new law offers citizenship to non-Muslim illegal immigrants from Pa... | Riot | December 2019 | ['(BBC)'] |
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking at the launch of the 25th Africa–France summit in Nice, calls for Africa to be represented on the United Nations Security Council, and promises to back changes when France chairs the G8 and G–20 major economies groups in 2011. | The French president has called for Africa to be given a bigger say in world affairs and better representation on the UN Security Council.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, rounding off a two-day France-Africa summit in Nice, also said Africa would be a key source of global growth in the coming decades.
He pledged to push for... | Famous Person - Give a speech | May 2010 | ['(Aljazeera)', '(BBC)'] |
Voters in Northern Cyprus go to the polls for an election for a new President to represent them in peace talks with the southern Republic of Cyprus. |
NICOSIA, April 19 (Reuters) - Voters in breakaway northern Cyprus elect a president on Sunday whose main task will be to represent them in reunification talks that are expected to resume on the ethnically divided island next month.
Opinion polls put conservative incumbent Dervis Eroglu in the lead ahead of the six oth... | Government Job change - Election | April 2015 | ['(Reuters via Daily Mail)'] |
A Vietnam–registered oil tanker explodes off Hong Kong's southern coast, killing at least one person and leaving three others missing. | An oil tanker has exploded off the coast of Hong Kong, killing at least one person and leaving three missing.
The Vietnam-registered vessel burst into flames as it prepared to refuel at an anchorage off Hong Kong's southern coast, according to authorities.
Residents of the nearby island of Lantau said they heard a big ... | Shipwreck | January 2019 | ['(ABC News)'] |
Thailand's Supreme Court issues an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who didn't appear in court for the verdict in her negligence trial regarding a rice subsidy program for farmers. The court also issued a statement questioning her attorney's report that she is unwell and a potential flight ... | Former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra has fled abroad, sources say, ahead of a verdict in her trial over a rice subsidy scheme.
Sources in her party say she made the decision to leave unexpectedly, shortly before she was due to appear at the Supreme Court on negligence charges. Her lawyers told the court she had been unab... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | August 2017 | ['(Reuters)', '(The Sydney Morning Herald)', '(The New York Times)', '(BBC Asia)'] |
Former Mayor of the American city of New Orleans, Louisiana Ray Nagin is sentenced to ten years in prison for corruption, money laundering and other related offences. , | NEW ORLEANS — C. Ray Nagin, the former New Orleans mayor, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison on corruption charges, a remarkable fall from grace for a man who came to office pledging to root out cronyism. The sentence by Judge Helen Berrigan of Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana was... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | July 2014 | ['(D)', '(USA Today)', '(New York Times)'] |
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveil a peace plan developed by the Trump administration for three years. The plan recognizes Israeli sovereignty over major settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank, as well as the annexation of the Jordan Valley, in exchange for a freeze on ... | WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Mideast peace plan Tuesday alongside a beaming Benjamin Netanyahu, presenting a vision that matched the Israeli leader’s hard-line, nationalist views while falling far short of Palestinian ambitions.
Trump’s plan envisions a disjointed Palestinian state... | Government Policy Changes | January 2020 | ['(Associated Press)'] |
French police arrest three men and a 16yearold girl found with bombmaking materials in a Montpellier flat. The female suspect had been spotted online saying she wanted to either leave for the SyriaIraq conflict or mount an attack in France, and recorded a video in which she pledged allegiance to ISIL. | An "imminent" terror attack on French soil has been averted with the arrest of four suspects in Montpellier, Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said.
Three men and a girl of 16 were found with bomb-making materials by anti-terrorist police in a raid on a flat in the southern city.
Home-made explosives similar to those use... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | February 2017 | ['(BBC)'] |
Alain "Spiderman" Robert climbs another building barehanded, this time in Sydney; he is later arrested. | A French stuntman renowned for climbing skyscrapers has once again been arrested in Sydney after he scaled a building using his bare hands.
Alain Robert was taken into police custody as soon as he reached the top of the 57-storey Lumiere Building on Bathurst Street about 10.50am today while onlookers applauded.
French... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | August 2010 | ['(The Sydney Morning Herald)', '(BBC)', '(Xinhua)', '(Sky News)', '(France24)'] |
An explosion and fire in Ludwigshafen, at the largest production site of BASF in Germany, kills at least two people and injures six more with two people still missing. BASF is the world's biggest chemical producer. | FRANKFURT (Reuters) - At least two people died and six were severely injured on Monday in an explosion and fire at chemicals maker BASF’s biggest production site in Germany, the company said.
Two people are still missing, BASF said.
The explosion occurred on a supply line connecting a harbor and a tank depot on the Lud... | Gas explosion | October 2016 | ['(Reuters)'] |
South Korea offers to hold talks with North Korea over reopening a joint factory complex in the North Korean town of Kaesong which shut down in April. | A woman rests under an umbrella while a man walks past her near a statue known as the Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification, which symbolizes the hope for eventual reunification of the two Koreas, in Pyongyang, North Korea. File photo
South Korea’s government said on Thursday that it has reached o... | Diplomatic Talks _ Diplomatic_Negotiation_ Summit Meeting | July 2013 | ['(AP via The Hindu)'] |
A 7.0 magnitude undersea earthquake strikes east of New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Tsunami warnings for New Caledonia and Vanuatu are cancelled. There are no immediate reports of damage. | The November 19, 2017, M 7.0 earthquake east of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific Ocean occurred as the result shallow of normal faulting within the oceanic crust of the Australia plate, just west of the South New Hebrides Trench which marks the plate boundary between the Australia and Pacific plates in this regio... | Earthquakes | November 2017 | ['(Gulf News)', '(Reuters)', '(USGS)'] |
Two men who were photographed carrying plastic hand restraints in the Senate chamber during the storming of the United States Capitol, are arrested in Tennessee and Texas. | U.S. counterterrorism prosecutors are investigating two men who allegedly wore tactical gear and held plastic restraints or zip ties in the U.S. Senate during the breach of the U.S. Capitol last week, the Justice Department announced. The men were arrested Sunday.
Larry Rendell Brock, a retired Air Force lieutenant col... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | January 2021 | ['(The Washington Post)'] |
Seven people are killed in hurricane–force winds reaching 130 km/h in Poland and two more are killed by wind in the Czech Republic. Hail falls on 60,000 hectares of crops in Austria, causing damage of at least €20 million. | EXTREME weather has killed and injured dozens of people across Europe, with Spain, France and Italy hit by summer wildfires and parts of central Europe deluged by storms.
The deadly fires spread in Spain, France, Italy and Greece, while violent storms felled trees and ripped off roofs in central Europe.
Western and sou... | Hurricanes_Tornado_Storm_Blizzard | July 2009 | ['(Sydney Morning Herald)', '(BBC)'] |
A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others. No one claims responsibility. Thai Society president Songvut Manoonpong says that parties opposing the Thai military government are responsible. , , , , | updated:
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A bomb explosion inside one of Bangkok’s most popular tourist attractions killed at least 19 people and injured 123 others mostly foreign tourists on Monday.
Of the 19 dead victims, 12 died at the scene. The figures were ... | Armed Conflict | August 2015 | ['(Sky News)', '(Reuters)', '(The Bangkok Post)', '(The New Zealand Herald)', '(Al Jazeera)'] |
Umberto Bossi resigns as the head of the Italian Northern League following a corruption scandal. | Leading Italian populist politician Umberto Bossi has resigned as head of the Northern League after a financial scandal engulfed the party.
The Northern League is the only party in opposition to the current technocratic government led by Prime Minister Mario Monti.
A former party treasurer is suspected of misusing fund... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | April 2012 | ['(BBC)'] |
The Pentagon rejects a Russian proposal to stage joint airstrikes against Al-Qaeda linked groups in Syria. | The Pentagon is dismissing a Russian proposal to carry out joint airstrikes against al Qaida-linked terrorists in Syria.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu floated the notion Friday during a meeting that was broadcast on Russian state television, adding that the strikes could begin as early as May 2... | Government Policy Changes | May 2016 | ['(VOA News)', '(Reuters)', '(Huffington Post)'] |
Swaziland's justice minister and senator Ndumiso Mamba resigns from both positions over allegations of an affair with a wife of King Mswati III; the wife has denied the allegations. | Swaziland's justice minister has resigned following allegations he was having an affair with one of King Mswati III's 13 wives.
The prime minister said Ndumiso Mamba had resigned from his position as both cabinet minister and senator.
He said it was because of "allegations circulating in the country".
Correspondents sa... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | August 2010 | ['(BBC)', '(Times LIVE)', '(IOL)', '[permanent dead link]', '(The Guardian)'] |
Activist Joshua Wong announces he is running for the legislature, setting up a new legal battle with authorities after he was barred from running in the previous election. | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Prominent Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong said on Friday he planned to run for a seat in the Chinese-ruled city’s legislature, setting up a new battle with authorities after being barred from running in previous polls.
Wong, who was 17 when he became the face of the 2014 student-led Umbre... | Government Job change - Election | June 2020 | ['(Reuters)'] |
A Cairo court clears former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak on murder charges related to the death of hundreds of protesters in the 2011 Egyptian revolution. , | A court in Egypt has dropped charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of 239 protesters during the 2011 uprising against him.
The Cairo court erupted in cheers when the judge said Mubarak should not have been a defendant in the case as the charges against him were added late. Charges against seve... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | November 2014 | ['(AFP via Channel News Asia)', '(BBC)'] |
Shifa Gardi, a prominent female reporter for Rudaw Media Network, is killed by a roadside bomb while reporting on the battle for Mosul. | A Kurdish reporter has been killed while covering on the battle for Mosul in Iraq. Shifa Gardi, who worked for Iraqi Kurdish channel Rudaw, was killed by a roadside bomb as she covered the advance of Iraqi forces into western areas held by so-called Islamic State.
Rudaw said that Gardi, 30, had broken the stereotypes o... | Famous Person - Death | February 2017 | ['(BBC)'] |
The Obama administration through the United States Department of Commerce transfers oversight of the technical management of the Internet by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to an international consortium of stakeholders. | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A long-planned transfer of the internet’s technical management from the U.S. government to a global community of stakeholders is expected to take place on Saturday despite last-minute attempts by conservative politicians and officials to delay the changeover.
The U.S. Department of Commerce is du... | Government Policy Changes | October 2016 | ['(Reuters)'] |
Governor of Lazio, Nicola Zingaretti, wins the leadership election by a landslide, defeating Maurizio Martina and Roberto Giachetti, and becoming the new Secretary of the Democratic Party. | The president of Lazio, the favourite to win, captured 67% of the vote in which 1.6m party supporters cast ballots
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Nicola Zingaretti, the president of Italy’s Lazio region, has become the new leader of the centre-left Democratic party after capturing a projected 67% of the vo... | Government Job change - Appoint_Inauguration | March 2019 | ['(The Guardian)'] |
Group of Seven finance ministers who met in Washington with International Monetary Fund chief and World Bank president announce a plan to combat the crisis including the use of "all available tools" to support key institutions and prevent their failure. | Group of Seven finance chiefs have announced a plan of action to fight the global crisis including the use of "all available tools" to support key institutions and prevent their failure.
"The G7 agrees today that the current situation calls for urgent and exceptional action," a statement released by the US Treasury sai... | Government Policy Changes | October 2008 | ['(NineMSN)'] |
Bulgarians vote to elect a new Prime Minister after the resignation of Boyko Borissov. Opinion polls predict a close contest between Borissov's centre-right GERB and the Socialist Party. | AS OF a few months ago, it was possible to hope that Bulgaria’s parliamentary election on March 26th might be fought over the crucial issue of corruption. Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, of the centre-right GERB (“coat of arms”) party, called the elections in November after his party’s candidate lost the presidential rac... | Government Job change - Election | March 2017 | ['(The Economist)'] |
Voters in Anguilla go to the polls for a general election with the Anguilla United Front led by Victor Banks elected to government. | Thursday, April 23, 2015 | 9:34 AM Â Â Â THE VALLEY, Anguilla (CMC) – The main opposition Anguilla United Front (AUF) was swept into power here after winning six of the seven seats in the general elections on Wednesday, according to the preliminary figures released here.
The incumbent Anguilla United Movement (AUM) d... | Government Job change - Election | April 2015 | ['(Jamaica Observer)'] |
Spain and the Netherlands are both fined by FIFA for their antics during the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final. | World Cup winners Spain and their opponents Netherlands have been fined by Fifa for their players' poor discipline in July's final.
Football's governing body fined the Dutch federation £9,080, while the Spanish association must pay £6,053. English referee Howard Webb booked eight Dutch players and sent off defender Joh... | Organization Fine | August 2010 | ['(BBC Sport)', '(Sky Sports)', '(The Monitor – Uganda)'] |
Zimbabwe intends to release 62 mercenaries connected to failed coup attempt in the Equatorial Guinea last year. Most of the suspected mercenaries are South African. | belongings in possession of Zimbabwean authorities would have to be returned to them. There was also a lot of paperwork to be
completed, Griebenow added.
"The plane tickets cannot be bought before we know exactly when
they are going to be freed.
"Our embassy officials there (in Harare) are in discussions with prison an... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Release | March 2005 | ['(Reuters SA)', '(IAfrica)', '(BBC)'] |
The composer and pianist Elton John cancels his third concert in several days due to flu. | Sir Elton John has been forced to pull out of a second major UK show after his flu symptoms failed to improve.
The musician had been due to play at Newcastle Metro Radio Arena as part of his Red Piano tour, but doctors have said he is too ill to perform. He had to cancel a show in Sheffield on Friday night after he cam... | Famous Person - Sick | October 2009 | ['(BBC)', '(The Daily Telegraph)', '(CBC)'] |
Hawaii Democratic Party Senator Daniel Akaka announces that he will not be standing for reelection in the United States Senate election in Hawaii. | Hawaii Democratic Sen. Daniel Akaka will not seek re-election in 2012, the fifth Democratic or Democratic aligned incumbent to bow out already this election cycle.
"After months of thinking about my political future, I am announcing today that I have decided not to run for re-election in 2012," Akaka said in a statemen... | Government Job change - Election | March 2011 | ['(The Washington Post)'] |
The outcome of the election for the next leader of the United Kingdom Labour Party is announced with Jeremy Corbyn winning the contest ahead of Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall while Tom Watson is elected as the new deputy leader. , | Jeremy Corbyn records extraordinary victory in Labour leadership election with more than 251,000 of 422,000 votes
• Jeremy Corbyn wins with 60pc of first round vote • Tom Watson announced as deputy leader• Shadow ministers resign after Corbyn victory• Dan Hodges: The day the Labour Party died• Corbyn's ex-wife: I gave ... | Government Job change - Election | September 2015 | ['(The Telegraph)', '(Evening Standard)'] |
Japan detects a new case of what is believed to be a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza at a poultry farm in Fukuoka Prefecture. This is the first confirmed case outside of Kagawa Prefecture. As a result, the prefectural government will cull 93,500 chickens at a farm in Munakata to prevent the spread of the in... |
TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan has detected a new outbreak of bird flu on a chicken farm in southwestern Fukuoka prefecture, in addition to the eight already reported in Kagawa prefecture west of Tokyo, the government said on Wednesday (Nov 25).
The wave of avian influenza that began earlier this month is proving to be the ... | Disease Outbreaks | November 2020 | ['(The Straits Times)'] |
Russian police arrest 290 protesters calling on President Vladimir Putin to resign. , | MOSCOW/ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Police detained more than 200 opposition activists on Saturday for taking part in a wave of anti-Kremlin protests across Russia in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, ahead of a presidential election in March, a monitoring group reported.
Under grey skies and intermitten... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | October 2017 | ['(Reuters)', '(CNN)'] |
Dozens of Chinese taxi drivers attempt a mass suicide in Beijing to protest the way taxi companies renewed their vehicle leases. | BEIJING — A group of taxi drivers drank from bottles of pesticide in central Beijing on Saturday to protest what they said was poor treatment by their taxi companies, state and social media outlets reported.
At least 10 men, some of them frothing from the mouth, fell to the ground on a busy sidewalk at the Wangfujing s... | Protest_Online Condemnation | April 2015 | ['(The New York Times)', '(The Telegraph)'] |
In cricket, Australia win the women's ICC World Twenty20 tournament and Sri Lanka win the men's tournament. | Last updated on 6 April 20146 April 2014.From the section Women's Cricket
Australia thrashed England by six wickets to win a third successive Women's World Twenty20 title.
England collapsed from 55-1 to post a modest 105-8 after losing the toss in Mirpur, with Heather Knight's 29 the highest score as Sarah Coyte took 3... | Sports Competition | April 2014 | ['(BBC)'] |
The NFL and the NFL Referees Association reach an agreement, ending the referee lockout that has been ongoing since June of this year. | Boston Red Sox vs Toronto Blue Jays (Kids run the bases at Fenway), 09/07/2014, at Fenway Park ... Find Tickets
By Greg A. Bedard, Globe Staff
The national football nightmare is over. The real referees are back.
The National Football League and the union representing on-field officials agreed to a new collective barga... | Sign Agreement | September 2012 | ['(CNN)', '(AP via Boston Globe)'] |
Soldiers in Buea and Bamenda, Cameroon, shoot dead a total of at least eight people during various protests by Anglophone separatists. | BUEA/BAMENDA, Cameroon (Reuters) - Soldiers shot dead at least eight people and wounded others in Cameroon’s restless English-speaking regions on Sunday during protests by activists calling for its independence from the majority Francophone nation, an official and witnesses said.
The demonstrations - timed to take plac... | Armed Conflict | October 2017 | ['(Reuters)'] |
A lone gunman opened fire at a café in Žitište, Serbia, killing five people and injuring 20 more. The perpetrator was arrested shortly afterward while attempting to flee the scene. | Serbian police say five people were killed and at least 20 wounded when a man opened gun fire inside a cafe in the country's north. A police statement said the man "entered the cafe and opened fire with an automatic rifle, killing his wife and another woman, then he continued to shoot at other citizens in the cafe."
In... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | July 2016 | ['(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)'] |
A suicide bomber detonates a vehicle full of explosives at a military camp in Gao, Mali, killing at least 76 people and wounding scores more in Mali's deadliest terrorist attack in history. | Attack marks significant setback for peace efforts in region after vehicle explosion hits joint operational mechanism base
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A suicide bomber in a vehicle full of explosives has attacked a camp in northern Mali, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens of soldiers and form... | Armed Conflict | January 2017 | ['(The Guardian)'] |
Several people are killed during protests in Indian–administered Kashmir after the worst anti–government violence in two years. | Four people have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir, as the worst anti-government violence to hit the disputed region in two years continues. Demonstrators have been pouring on to the streets and attacking police stations, defying attempts by the authorities to enforce a curfew. More than 30 people have been ki... | Protest_Online Condemnation | August 2010 | ['(The Hindu)', '(BBC)'] |
Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush dies of Parkinsonism at the age of 94, at about 10:10 p.m. CST. | Updated at 7:05 a.m. ET
George Herbert Walker Bush died Friday at the age of 94.
Former President George W. Bush released a statement, saying for himself and his siblings, "Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro, and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad has died."
"George H.W. Bush was a man of the ... | Famous Person - Death | November 2018 | ['(NPR)', '(CNN)'] |
Former Saenuri Party member of the South Korean National Assembly Cho Hyun–ryong is jailed for five years for accepting bribes. | SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Yonhap) -- The nation's top court on Friday upheld a five-year jail term for a ruling party lawmaker for taking bribes from a railway parts supplier in exchange for business favors.
The Supreme Court found Rep. Cho Hyun-ryong of the ruling Saenuri Party guilty of taking 160 million won (US$146,000) f... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | November 2015 | ['(Yonhap)'] |
England becomes the first host nation and first former finalist to be knocked out of the Rugby World Cup during the group stages following their defeat to Australia. | Last updated on 3 October 20153 October 2015.From the section Rugby Union
England are out of the World Cup after being torn apart by a superb Australia display at a stunned Twickenham.
Two converted first-half tries and four penalties from Wallaby fly-half Bernard Foley in a virtuoso display brought a richly deserved w... | Sports Competition | October 2015 | ['(BBC)'] |
In tennis, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut meet again following last year's record–breaking epic at Wimbledon. | WIMBLEDON, England -- By the time they reached the third set Tuesday evening, the setting sun was already hovering above the western rim of Court No. 3.
The golden light lingered on the players when they were serving on the southern baseline, casting them in bronze for all time. This was appropriate, for John Isner and... | Sports Competition | June 2011 | ['(ESPN)', '(The New York Times)', '(USA Today)'] |
A bombing in Chaman, Balochistan, Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan, kills three people and injures 13 others. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack. | QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three people including a child have been killed and 13 others injured in a bomb blast near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The blast occurred in the town of Chaman, which is one of two major crossing points between Afghanistan and Pakistan and used by thousands of people daily.
The Pakista... | Armed Conflict | March 2021 | ['(Reuters)'] |
Wales achieve the Grand Slam by beating France 29–12 in the final match of Rugby Union's 2008 RBS Six Nations. | Wales completed their transformation from World Cup flops to secure their second Grand Slam in four years and send the nation into raptures.
An early 9-3 lead was whittled away by France after Gavin Henson's sin-binning on the stroke of half-time. But Shane Williams got the crucial score on 60 minutes, becoming Wales' ... | Sports Competition | March 2008 | ['(BBC News)'] |
U.S. authorities charge two operatives, Samer El Debek, 37, of Dearborn, Michigan, and Ali Kourani, 32, of the Bronx, New York, belonging to the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah with terrorism offenses, accused of plotting to target American and Israeli targets in New York and Panama. | U.S. authorities have charged two operatives belonging to the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah with terrorism offenses, accused of plotting to target American and Israeli targets in New York and Panama.
Police arrested Samer El Debek, 37, of Dearborn, Michigan, and Ali Kourani, 32, of the Bronx, New York, on Ju... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | June 2017 | ['(Newsweek)'] |
The Pentagon announces the suspension of joint military exercises with South Korea, including the Ulchi-Freedom Guardian and marine training exercises. |
The U.S. Defense Department announced Friday that it had “indefinitely suspended select” military exercises with South Korea less than two weeks after President Donald Trump’s historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.
“To support implementing the outcomes of the Singapore Summit, and in coord... | Military Exercise | June 2018 | ['(The Japan Times)'] |
25 people are killed in a bomb assault in the Nigerian town Suleja. | SAN FRANCISCO, April 08, (THEWILL) - A dirty bomb which exploded inside the Suleja, Niger State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has killed 25 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and severely wounded about 48 others, according to multiple sources in Suleja.
THEWILL gathered ... | Armed Conflict | April 2011 | ['(THEWILL)'] |
Cambodia declares a day of mourning for at least 378 people killed in a stampede in the capital Phnom Penh. | Families in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh have been scouring morgues and hospitals in search of relatives missing after a deadly stampede.
Search teams have also been trawling a river for bodies after the crush on a footbridge left at least 378 people dead and hundreds more injured.
Prime Minister Hun Sen declared T... | Riot | November 2010 | ['(BBC)'] |
French taxidrivers, air traffic controllers and school teachers go on strike over working conditions and competition from non–traditional services such as Uber. | Paris police fired tear gas and taxi drivers lit bonfires on a major highway Tuesday amid nationwide strikes and protests over working conditions and competition from non-traditional services such as Uber.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls met with taxi drivers in an apparent attempt to defuse tensions. He condemned the driv... | Strike | January 2016 | ['(AP via ABC News America)'] |
Queen Elizabeth II is admitted to hospital for observation after experiencing symptoms of gastroenteritis. Buckingham Palace has described it as a "precaution". | The Queen is in hospital as a precaution, while she is assessed for symptoms of gastroenteritis, Buckingham Palace says.
The 86-year-old monarch has been taken to King Edward VII's Hospital in London, a palace spokesman said.
She was driven to hospital in a private car on Sunday afternoon. The palace said she was "in g... | Famous Person - Sick | March 2013 | ['(BBC)'] |
Average peak concentrations of PM2.5 are more than twice as great in Delhi as in Beijing during the first three weeks of the year. | NEW DELHI — In mid-January, air pollution in Beijing was so bad that the government issued urgent health warnings and closed four major highways, prompting the panicked buying of air filters and donning of face masks. But in New Delhi, where pea-soup smog created what was by some measurements even more dangerous air, t... | Environment Pollution | January 2014 | ['(fine particulate air pollution)', '(New York Times)'] |
The Islamic City Council of Tehran appoints Pirouz Hanachi as the new mayor of Tehran, the third in 18 months. | The Tehran city council has elected a little-known technocrat to the politically sensitive post of mayor, Iranian state media report.
Pirouz Hanachi, 54, is the third mayor of Tehran to be elected since reformists swept the city-council elections in May 2017.
Hanachi's selection needs to be approved by the Interior Min... | Government Job change - Appoint_Inauguration | November 2018 | ['(RFE/RL)'] |
Three explosions occur in the former Burmese capital of Yangon during the city's Water Festival, killing at least 9 people and injuring 178. | The BBC's Rachel Harvey: "It does seem to have been very deliberately targeted"
Three explosions in Burma's former capital city, Rangoon, have killed at least nine people, reports say.
The blasts happened in a park by Kandawgyi Lake as residents marked the New Year water festival. Reports said scores of people had been... | Armed Conflict | April 2010 | ['(Xinhua)', '(BBC)', '(Radio Australia News)'] |
Turkey launches a military operation against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, in response to attacks by the Kurdistan Workers Party that killed at least 24 Turkish soldiers in southeastern Turkey. | At least 26 Turkish soldiers have been killed in clashes with Kurdish rebels at police and army posts in south-east Turkey, the government says.
The attacks, in the mainly Kurdish province of Hakkari, are thought to have inflicted the biggest loss on Turkish security forces in years.
In response, Turkish troops are rep... | Armed Conflict | October 2011 | ['(Hurriyet Daily News)', '(BBC)'] |
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks sweep the Yomiuri Giants to win the Japan Series. | FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — The Japanese baseball season started late and the schedule was cut back, but the end result the same as usual.
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks won their fourth straight Japan Series title on Wednesday, sweeping Tokyo’s Yomiuri Giants in four games in the best-of-seven series.
The Hawks won the clinchin... | Sports Competition | November 2020 | ['(AP)'] |
Republican lawmakers block the United States Senate from taking up a bill to grant voting rights to Washington DC. | Republican lawmakers yesterday blocked the Senate from taking up the D.C. vote bill, a potentially fatal setback for the District's most promising effort in years to get a full member of Congress.
The vote was on a motion to simply consider the bill. Fifty-seven senators voted in favor, three short of the 60 needed to ... | Government Policy Changes | September 2007 | ['(Washington Post)'] |
The United Nations warns that the situation in Yemen continues to deteriorate as humanitarian aid starts to arrive. | The United Nationsis calling for an immediate humanitarian pause to allow more life-saving aid to be brought into Yemen by air and sea.
Johannes Van Der Klaauw, U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Yemen,says basic services are collapsing and people are facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions as airst... | Armed Conflict | April 2015 | ['(Voice of America)'] |
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. | A strong earthquake has struck in the Pacific Ocean near New Caledonia but experts say there isn't a tsunami threat.
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the magnitude 7.1 quake hit Wednesday afternoon about 230 kilometres east of Tadine in New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands.
The quake was about 290k... | Earthquakes | August 2018 | ['(Stuff)'] |
All 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Kagara, Niger State, Nigeria, on February 17 are released by their captors. | Twenty-seven students, three staff and 12 members of their families had been abducted last week by an armed gang.
Gunmen in Nigeria have released 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped from a boarding school last week in the north-central state of Niger, the state’s governor said.
Their release comes just... | Armed Conflict | February 2021 | ['(Al Jazeera)'] |
Hungarian MEP, EPP Chief Whip and Vice-President, and one of the founders of the anti-LGBT Fidesz party, József Szájer, resigns after being detained by police at a homosexual orgy in Brussels alongside several other diplomats. He stands accused by Belgian authorities of being in possession of illegal drugs and violatin... | An MEP from Hungary's ruling party, which is hostile to LGBT rights, has quit after he was caught attending what Belgian media describe as a gay sex party in Brussels on Friday.
Jozsef Szajer, a top member of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, was stopped by police after reports of a house party violating lock... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | December 2020 | ['(BBC)'] |
An investigation by Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News found that since 1998, about 380 Southern Baptist church clerics, laypersons, and volunteers have faced credible accusations of sexual abuse and that of those, roughly 220 were convicted of sex crimes or received plea deals, in cases involving more ... | This collection of mug shots includes a portion of the 218 people who, since 1998, worked or volunteered in Southern Baptist churches and were convicted of or pleaded guilty to sex crimes. Published Feb. 10, 2019
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Thirty-five years later, Debbie Vasquez's voice trembled as she described her trauma to ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | February 2019 | ['(Houston Chronicle)', '(Houston Chronicle2)', '(San Antonio Express-News)'] |
The Czech government announced that it will open negotiations with the US Government over participation in the missile defense shield. | BERLIN, March 28 -- The Czech government announced Wednesday that it will open formal negotiations with the United States to build part of a missile defense shield, even as opposition to the idea has stiffened elsewhere in Europe.
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek told reporters in Prague that his country "recognizes the ... | Diplomatic Talks _ Diplomatic_Negotiation_ Summit Meeting | March 2007 | ['(Washington Post)'] |
HewlettPackard , the world's largest computer maker based in the U.S. state of California, pays US$55 million amid allegations it defrauded the United States government. , | Hewlett-Packard has agreed to pay $US55 million ($A61 million) to settle claims the US computer giant defrauded the US government, the Justice Department announced on Monday.
The settlement resolves allegations that HP paid kickbacks to systems integrator companies in return for recommendations that US agencies buy HP ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | August 2010 | ['(HP)', '(The Sydney Morning Herald)', '(AFP via France24)', '[permanent dead link]', '(BBC)'] |
Viva Leroy Nash, the oldest death row inmate in the United States, dies of natural causes at the age of 94. | Live NRL updates: New Zealand Warriors v Newcastle Knights
FLORENCE - The oldest death row inmate in the US has died of natural causes at age 94.
An Arizona Department of Corrections spokesman says Viva Leroy Nash died late Friday at the state's prison complex in Florence.
Nash was still on death row, but spokesman B... | Famous Person - Death | February 2010 | ['(BBC)', '(The New Zealand Herald)', '(Taipei News)'] |
The Japanese Red Cross says that 250,000 people have been asked to leave their homes due to further tremors. | Nearly 250,000 people have been told to leave their homes amid fears of further quakes in Japan, an aid agency says.
Naoki Kokawa, advisor to the Japanese Red Cross Society, told the BBC that more medical teams were being dispatched to evacuation centres.
Two powerful earthquakes hit the south-western island of Kyushu ... | Earthquakes | April 2016 | ['(BBC)'] |
This month, at least 400,000 hectares of U.S. farmland were flooded from the early March blizzard storm that affected nine major grain-producing states, according to Israel Cleantech Ventures' Gro Intelligence. | CHICAGO/COLUMBUS, Neb. (Reuters) - At least 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) of U.S. farmland were flooded after the “bomb cyclone” storm left wide swaths of nine major grain producing states under water this month, satellite data analyzed by Gro Intelligence for Reuters showed.
Floods ruin more than 1M acres of U.S.... | Floods | March 2019 | ['(1 million acres)', '(Reuters)'] |
Police announce that investigative journalist Viktoria Marinova was found murdered yesterday in a park in Ruse, Bulgaria. Marinova's latest work was on "GPgate", a scandal involving alleged corruption and abuse of European Union subsidies in Bulgaria. | SOFIA -- A Bulgarian TV reporter has been found dead in a northern border city and authorities say they are investigating into whether the killing was a random crime or connected to her reporting work.
Officials said on October 7 that Viktoria Marinova, whose body was found in a park in the city of Ruse a day earlier, ... | Famous Person - Death | October 2018 | ['(Thuner Tagblatt)', '(RFE/RL)'] |
Paraguay passes a bill, requested by President, Fernando Lugo, that suspends constitutional rights for 30 days in parts of the country after the Paraguayan People's Army kills four people. | Paraguay has passed a bill imposing a temporary suspension of constitutional rights in parts of the country in a crackdown on violence, it is reported.
The 30-day suspension in parts of the north gives the armed forces greater powers to combat a left-wing group. The Paraguayan People's Army (PPA) is responsible for kil... | Government Policy Changes | April 2010 | ['(PPA)', '(BBC)'] |
The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, that a state cannot be sued in another state's court, overturning a 40–year–old precedent. The 5–4 decision overrules the Nevada v. Hall stare decisis set in 1979 which allowed private suits from one state to be brought in anot... | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decided Monday that one state cannot unwillingly be sued in the courts of another, overruling a 40-year precedent and perhaps, foreshadowing an argument over the viability of other high court decisions.
The outcome left one dissenting justice wondering “which cases th... | Government Policy Changes | May 2019 | ['(SCOTUS)', '(PBS)', '(SCOTUS Blog)'] |
Pakistan sentences former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Yadav to death for espionage and sabotage. | In a rare move, a Field General Court Martial (FGCM) on Monday handed Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav the death sentence after trial for involvement in espionage and sabotage activities in Karachi and Balochistan.
Jadhav was arrested on March 3, 2016, through a counter-intelligence operation in Balochistan's Mashkel area ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | April 2017 | ['(Dawn)', '(NDTV)'] |
The foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand meet in Kuala Lumpur to discuss people smuggling and the migrant crisis. Malaysia and Indonesia agree to accept asylum seekers providing that they can be resettled or repatriated within a year. , | Updated 20 May 2015, 5:41pmWed 20 May 2015, 5:41pm
Malaysia and Indonesia say they will no longer turn away migrant boats, responding to world pressure by offering to take in a wave of asylum seekers provided they can be resettled or repatriated within a year.
The nations have sparked outrage by preventing ve... | Diplomatic Talks _ Diplomatic_Negotiation_ Summit Meeting | May 2015 | ['(Straits Times)', '(wires and ABC Online)'] |
Four people are sentenced to death for their involvement in a bank fraud scandal in Iran. | Four people have been sentenced to death for their roles in Iran's biggest-ever bank fraud scandal.
Two other defendants received life sentences, while 33 more will spend up to 25 years in jail, the chief prosecutor was quoted as saying.
The scandal involved forged documents reportedly used by an investment company to ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | July 2012 | ['(BBC)'] |
77–year–old Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii is hospitalised after suffering from high blood pressure and fatigue. | TOKYO - JAPAN'S Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii, 77, was hospitalised on Monday for a rest and medical tests due to high blood pressure and fatigue after weeks of hard work on the budget, his ministry said. Financial markets reacted calmly to the announcement, with the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei-225 index striking a... | Famous Person - Sick | December 2009 | ['(The Straits Times)'] |
In basketball, the Toronto Raptors defeat the Golden State Warriors four games to two to win their first NBA championship. The Toronto Raptors are also the first NBA team outside of the United States and the first from Canada to win the NBA Finals. | The Raptors on Thursday beat the Golden State Warriors, 114-110, in Game 6 to win the NBA Finals. It is their first championship in franchise history.
Kawhi Leonard, who scored 22 points on 7-of-16 shooting, took home Finals MVP.
In a game where the Warriors defense stifled Leonard, holding him below his series average... | Sports Competition | June 2019 | ['(Los Angeles Times)', '(Business Insider)'] |
Seven civilians are killed and ten are injured in a roadside attack by the PKK in Kulp, Diyarbakir Province, Turkey. | At least seven civilians were killed and nine injured when PKK terrorists targeted a vehicle carrying forest workers in southeastern Turkey, Turkey's interior minister said early Friday.
"Our seven brothers were martyred by an improvised explosives blast while the vehicle was carrying them. Rest in peace. We had 10 inj... | Armed Conflict | September 2019 | ['(Anadolu Agency)'] |
Football coach Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, due to be unveiled as the new Villarreal manager on Friday, is found dead from a heart attack at the age of 54. | By Sportsmail Reporter Published: 08:37 BST, 7 June 2012 | Updated: 14:10 BST, 7 June 2012 24
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Manolo Preciado, who was due to be unveiled as new Villarreal manager on Friday, has died of a heart attack.
The 54-year-old Spaniard left relegated Sporting Gijon this summer and was due to take charge... | Famous Person - Death | June 2012 | ['(Daily Mail)'] |
At least 14 Tunisian soldiers are reportedly killed following Islamist militant attacks at two checkpoints near the Algerian border with at least 20 others wounded, a group called the Okba Ben Nafaa Brigade has claimed responsibility. | At least 14 Tunisian soldiers have been killed in a militant attack near the Algerian border with at least 20 others wounded, the defence ministry says. They say gunmen, armed with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles, raided two checkpoints near Mount Chaambi.
It is reportedly the heaviest death toll registered by the... | Armed Conflict | July 2014 | ['(BBC)'] |
In Egypt, referendum favours constitutional changes for presidential elections with 83% in favour | Egyptian voters approved constitutional changes that open the way for the country’s first multi-candidate presidential elections, the interior ministry said on Thursday. Interior Minister Habib el-Adly said that 83% of voters approved the amendment to Article 76 of the constitution in Wednesday’s balloting. Turnout was... | Government Job change - Election | May 2005 | ['(Al–Jazeera)', '(BBC)'] |
The African Union choose Nkosazana Dlamini–Zuma of South Africa as its leader, making her the first woman to occupy the post, in a hard fought battle with incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon. | The African Union has chosen South African Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as its leader, making her the first woman to hold the post.
Ms Dlamini-Zuma beat incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon after a closely fought contest for the chairmanship of the organisation.
In January, neither got the required two-thirds majority, leaving Mr Pi... | Government Job change - Election | July 2012 | ['(BBC)'] |
Haiti's election results are delayed "out of concern for transparency". | The Provisional Electoral Council said it would not publish 19 seats' results "out of concern for transparency", but did not say if there would be recount. The move comes after the international community raised concerns over fraud. The United Nations questioned why the results in several constituencies had been overtu... | Government Job change - Election | April 2011 | ['(BBC)'] |
A United States airstrike in Afghanistan early Saturday kills 10 children and 3 adults. The family was displaced because of the conflict according to early findings by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. | KABUL (Reuters) - Ten children, part of the same extended family, were killed by a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan, along with three adult civilians, the United Nations said on Monday.
The air strike early on Saturday was part of a battle between the Taliban and combined Afghan and U.S. forces that lasted about 30 hours... | Armed Conflict | March 2019 | ['(Reuters)'] |
A Danish court sentences a Norwegian-Iranian man to seven years in prison for spying on behalf of Iranian intelligence and for conspiring to assassinate the leader of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz. He will be expelled permanently from the country upon the end of his sentence. | COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Danish court on Friday sentenced a Norwegian citizen to seven years in jail after convicting him of spying for an Iranian intelligence service and complicity in a suspected plot to kill an Iranian Arab opposition figure in Denmark.
Mohammad Davoudzadeh Loloei, a 40-year-old Norwegian with Irani... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | June 2020 | ['(Reuters)'] |
Bombings in Baghdad kill at least 37 people hours before the city's curfew was due to end. ISIL claims responsibility. , | Bombings in the Iraqi capital Saturday killed more than three dozen people hours before the city’s longtime curfew was set to come to an end.
The deadliest attack happened in the New Baghdad section of the city. Police officials said a suicide bomber targeted a street filled with hardware stores, killing 22 people and ... | Armed Conflict | February 2015 | ['(AP via Los Angeles Times)', '(AP via KSL)'] |
Around 1,000 protesters block a key road in Moscow, Russia, following the killing of a fellow football fan blamed on a group from the North Caucasus. | The fragile nature of Russia’s inter-ethnic relations came to the fore once again as nationalists and football fans shut down a stretch of Leningradsky Prospekt on Tuesday evening.
About 1,000 football supporters gathered to demand justice after the death of Yegor Sviridov, 28, a fellow fan killed in a street brawl ear... | Protest_Online Condemnation | December 2010 | ['(The Moscow News)', '(BBC)'] |
Sam Gyimah resigns as British Minister of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in protest to Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal deal. | The universities minister, Sam Gyimah, has resigned in protest at the prime minister’s Brexit plan and pledged to vote against the agreement in parliament. On Friday, he became the seventh minister to quit Theresa May’s government over the issue.
Gyimah said the deal on offer would mean the UK lost its voice in the Eur... | Government Job change - Resignation_Dismissal | November 2018 | ['(The Guardian)'] |
UK Prime Minister Theresa May announces that henceforth April 22 will be marked nationally as Stephen Lawrence Day to commemorate the black teenager murdered 25 years ago in a racist assault. The high-profile crime led to the Metropolitan Police being labeled "institutionally racist". | A national day of commemoration for murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence will take place on 22 April every year, the prime minister has said.
It came as the family of the black teenager attended the 25th anniversary memorial of his death in London.
The 18-year-old was stabbed to death in a racially motivated attack in El... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | April 2018 | ['(BBC)', '(The Telegraph)'] |
70 protesters, including television actress Piper Perabo, are arrested at the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination. | U.S. Capitol Police said they arrested 70 people Tuesday during the the first day of hearings on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
In a statement, Capitol Police said 61 people wereremoved from the hearing room in the Hart Senate Office building and charged with disorderly conduct. The arrested pr... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | September 2018 | ['(People)', '(The Hill)'] |
In Morocco, Ali Salem Tamek, human rights activist and supporter of independence of Western Sahara, is arrested when he returns from Europe. Government accuses him of fomenting riots | A leading Western Sahara human rights activist has been arrested by police on suspicion of encouraging rioters in the disputed territory controlled by Morocco.
Ali Salem Tamek was arrested on Monday upon his arrival from Europe at Laayoune airport in Western Sahara, a Moroccan government source said.
"His name has been... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | July 2005 | ['(Al–JAzeera)'] |
At a meeting of the OPCW, 17 of the 41 countries abstain from a vote on not allowing Russia to participate in the inquiry. 15 countries vote in favour and six against. Three countries were not present at the meeting. | THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Russia’s call for a joint inquiry to be held into the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in England failed on Wednesday when it was outvoted 15-6 at a meeting of the global chemical weapons watchdog.
Russia had called an emergency meeting of the decision-making executive of the Organisatio... | Diplomatic Talks _ Diplomatic_Negotiation_ Summit Meeting | April 2018 | ['(Reuters)'] |
Sergeant Alexander Blackman, also known as Marine A, a Royal Marine who shot dead a wounded Taliban insurgent in 2011 during Operation Herrick, is released from HM Prison Erlestoke after serving more than three years of a seven-year sentence. | The Royal Marine jailed for shooting dead a wounded Taliban fighter has been released from prison.
Sgt Alexander Blackman received a life term in 2013 for murder, but his conviction was reduced to manslaughter.
The 42-year-old from Taunton, Somerset, served more than three years of a seven-year sentence.
Judges at the ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Release | April 2017 | ['(BBC)'] |
Rahan Alou and Talal Alameddine are charged with assisting Farhad Jabar to kill New South Wales Police Force accountant Curtis Cheng in Parramatta, Australia on 2 October 2015. | Raban Alou, 18, from Wentworthville, faces terrorism charges, while Talal Alameddine, 22, has been charged with supplying a weapon First published on Thu 15 Oct 2015 05.14 BST
Two men have been charged in relation to the murder of Curtis Cheng outside Parramatta police station earlier this month.
An 18-year-old man arr... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Accuse | October 2015 | ['(The Guardian)', '(ABC News Australia)'] |
A suicide bomber kills at least three people in an attack on a marketplace in Borno state. | MAIDUGURI, Nigeria A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device strapped to her body near a market in the northeastern Nigerian State of Borno, killing at least three people, police and civilian vigilante sources said on Saturday. No one claimed responsibility for the attack that bore the hallmarks of the Islamist m... | Armed Conflict | August 2015 | ['(Reuters via The New York Times)'] |
A woman is killed and 12 other people injured in a series of hit and run incidents in Cardiff, south Wales. A 31–year–old van driver is arrested by police. | A woman was killed and 11 other people, including seven children, were injured in a series of hit-and-run accidents through busy suburban streets in Cardiff yesterday.
Police arrested a man on suspicion of murder and seized a white van following half an hour of chaos at school pick-up time on Friday.
Witnesses describe... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | October 2012 | ['(BBC)', '(Western Mail)', '(The Guardian)'] |
The United States Attorney for the District of Columbia announces that Jacob Chansley (also known as Jake Angeli or "QAnon shaman"), who was photographed wearing horns, has been arrested. Additionally, Adam Christian Johnson is also expected to face charges for carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's lectern. | The guy most everyone (infamously) remembers as the bare-chested insurrectionist with animal horns and face paint who stormed into the Capitol is now in federal custody.
Jacob Chansley -- more commonly known as Jake Angeli, per prosecutors -- was arrested Saturday in Phoenix on charges of knowingly entering/remaining i... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | January 2021 | ['(The Guardian)', '(TMZ)'] |
British multinational electrical and telecommunications retailer Dixons Carphone says it is closing all standalone Carphone Warehouse stores in the UK, with the loss of 2,900 jobs, as part of a company restructuring. The closures are not believed to be related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. | LONDON (Reuters) - British electricals retailer Dixons Carphone DC.L will close all 531 UK standalone Carphone Warehouse stores and shed 2,900 jobs as part of a plan to turn around its loss-making mobile phones business, it said on Tuesday.
Shares in the group, which also trades as Currys and PC World in Britain, were ... | Organization Closed | March 2020 | ['(Reuters)'] |
Los Angeles, California, police arrest a 21–year–old homeless man after five bodies of apparent transients are found in the wreckage of a vacant former medical building that burned down Monday night. Firefighters had been able to rescue three people. | LOS ANGELES, June 14 (UPI) -- Police arrested a homeless man Tuesday after five bodies were found in the wreckage of a Los Angeles building that burned down the night before.
Police believe Johnny Sanchez, 21, intentionally started the fire in a dispute with others who also living in the building, Los Angeles police Ca... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Arrest | June 2016 | ['(Los Angeles Times)', '(LA Weekly)', '(UPI)'] |
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reportedly plans to restrict student visa holders, most of whom are from China, from staying in the United States for over a year. | Senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security are floating a proposal that would require foreign students to reapply for permission to stay in the United States every year, a controversial move that would create new costs and paperwork for thousands of visa holders from China, India and other nations, accordi... | Government Policy Changes | July 2017 | ['(The Washington Post)'] |
A fire occurs in the Channel Tunnel and the tunnel is closed until further notice. | The Channel Tunnel has been closed after a fire broke out on a freight train about seven miles from Calais.
Thirty-two people on board were led to safety, 14 of whom had suffered minor injuries, including smoke inhalation.
The blaze broke out on a lorry on board the shuttle train at about 1400 GMT, about 11km (7 miles)... | Fire | September 2008 | ['(BBC News)'] |
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