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Mudslide detours cause bumper-to-bumper traffic in mountain towns | STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — Road closures caused by mudslides are causing traffic headaches in small mountain communities. Bumper-to-bumper traffic is not something locals are to seeing on their streets in Steamboat Springs. But Mother Nature has changed that. Summer rainstorms have been pouring upon massive bur... | Mudslides | null | null |
Malaysia's ex-PM Najib starts appeal against 1MDB-linked conviction, jail sentence | KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia’s Court of Appeal on Monday began hearing a bid by former Prime Minister Najib Razak to set aside his conviction on corruption charges in a case linked to a multi-billion dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB. Najib, who was voted out in a historic 2018 election, faces several trials over ... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Tokyo Olympics: Morocco's Soufiane El Bakkali wins steeplechase gold as Hellen Obiri wins 5,000m silver | Last updated on 2 August 20212 August 2021.From the section Sport Africa
Kenya's dominance of the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase at the Olympics was ended by Morocco's Soufiane El Bakkali who won gold ahead of Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma and Kenya's Benjamin Kigen.
Kenya's Hellen Obiri had to settle once again for Olympi... | Break historical records | null | null |
Ford slugged with record $10m fine for unconscionable conduct over faulty gearboxes | A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern parts of Mokine, in WA's Northam Shire. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency
Ford has agreed to pay a ... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Kim Kardashian West’s Divorce Lawyer Laura Wasser on What Makes a Marriage Work | The attorney to Armie Hammer, Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears—who on Friday filed papers for Kim Kardashian West’s divorce from Kanye West—says, “Have the kind of unromantic talk that you would have if you were going to enter into a prenuptial agreement even if you’re not”
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NJ Gov. Murphy sets up Afghan Refugee Assistance task force | New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has established a task force to aid Afghan refugees coming into the state. Murphy, a Democrat, signed an executive order Friday creating the Task Force on Afghan Refugee Assistance with the aim of ensuring New Jersey is prepared to receive and assist those coming into the state. ... | Organization Established | null | null |
Where The Sopranos cast are now from tragic death and gas explosion to Mariah Carey video and Friends star | Over eight years and six series, The Sopranos enthralled viewers as it followed the fortunes of the New Jersey Soprano family and their mobster dad Tony.
Doling out violence and comedy in equal measures, the show began with mob boss Tony, played by James Gandolfini, going to therapy to help deal with his controlling m... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Another classroom at Ecole Elsie Mironuck School closed due to COVID | Another classroom at Ecole Elsie Mironuck Community School has been closed due to numerous cases of COVID-19. On Wednesday, Regina Public Schools announced the school was closing a Grade 3 classroom and moving to remote learning starting Thursday. On Thursday, the division announced a Grade 5/6 English classroom was cl... | Organization Closed | null | null |
France Has Returned 26 Objects Stolen From an Ancient Palace in Benin, Including a Throne, Altars, and Ornate Doors | French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Benin’s President Patrice Talon to officially sign an agreement returning 26 objects originally stolen by French forces from the Palace of Abomey. The objects were on display at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris until public pressure led to their return to Benin’s Ouidah Museum of ... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Donald Trump: Italian brothers arrested after cash machines robbed by men in president masks | Italian police have arrested two brothers suspected of robbing dozens of cash machines while wearing masks of US President Donald Trump. The brothers, Vittorio and Ivan Lafore, aged 26 and 30, targeted cash machines near the northern Italian city of Turin. In closed circuit footage of one of the robberies, one of the b... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Trump Withdrew From TPP | In 2011, when President Obama announced his administration’s intent to “pivot” to the Pacific, he did so with China in mind. The Bretton Woods system, the modern foundation of international finance and commerce, was nearly 70 years old. For the first time, that system was being challenged by a serious competitor. China... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Stairfoot rail accident |
The Stairfoot rail accident was a railway accident that took place at Stairfoot, South Yorkshire, England. On 12 December 1870, in Barnsley top yard a rake of 10 goods wagons was standing on a gradient of 1 in 119. A single sprag between the spokes of a wheel was holding them. When two gas tank wagons were shunted ag... | Train collisions | null | null |
Russia Withdraws from International Criminal Court, Says It's 'Ineffective' | Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an executive order to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Russia will remove its signature from the founding treaty of the organization, which had been on the papers since 2000 but were not ratified. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the ICC did not ser... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
2010 Shanghai fire |
The 2010 Shanghai fire[Note 1] was a fire on 15 November 2010 that destroyed a 28-story high-rise apartment building in the city of Shanghai, China, killing at least 58 people and injuring more than 70 others[5] (with at least one source reporting more than 120 others injured). [6]
An investigation under the PRC Sta... | Fire | null | null |
Governor Whitmer Signs Executive Order Establishing Task Force on Forensic Science | LANSING, Mich. -- Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order No. 2021-04, establishing the Task Force on Forensic Science. "A fair trial is at the core of the American criminal justice system," said Governor Gretchen Whitmer. "While forensic science is an important tool, misapplication of forensic scien... | Organization Established | null | null |
Britain Makes Final Economic Break from European Union | It has finally happened. Years after voters decided to leave the European Union (EU), the U.K. has completed its economic break from its European neighbors at 11 p.m. London time on Thursday. The final economic break happened on New Year's Eve after the U.K. left the single market and customs union and entered into a n... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
1948 Ashgabat earthquake | The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake (Turkmen: 1948 Ашгабат ертитремеси – 1948 Aşgabat ýertitremesi; Russian: Ашхабадское землетрясение 1948 года – Ashkhabadskoye zemletryasenie 1948 goda) was on 6 October with a surface wave magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), in Turkmenistan near Ashgabat. Due t... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Sumner, Robertson P-16 BEST award winners recently named, honored | The North Central P-16 Council recently named their 2021 Businesses Empowering Students and Teachers award winners for Sumner and Robertson Counties. Winners were presented their awards during the council’s October meeting. Robertson County’s Asailio “Ace” Timmermeir, of the United Way of Greater Nashville, and Sumne... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Japan Airlines Flight 115 crash |
Japan Airlines Flight 115 was a scheduled domestic Japan Airlines passenger flight from Tokyo's Haneda Airport to Itami Airport, Osaka Prefecture. On June 2, 1978, the aircraft suffered tailstrike damage on landing at Itami, which was incorrectly repaired resulting in a catastrophic failure on a subsequent flight se... | Air crash | null | null |
An independent researcher along with University of Michigan researchers have identified a 13,000-year-old Clovis camp site | Thirteen thousand years ago, most of Michigan was covered in a wall of ice up to a mile high. Archaeologists believed this kept some of the continent’s earliest people, a group called Clovis after their distinctive spear points, from settling in the region. But an independent researcher along with University of Michiga... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
An Australian firm has signed a $60bn (AUS$69bn; £38bn) deal to supply coal to Chinese power stations | An Australian firm has signed a $60bn (AUS$69bn; £38bn) deal to supply coal to Chinese power stations.
Clive Palmer, chairman of the company, Resourcehouse, said it was Australia's "biggest ever export contract". Under the deal, the firm will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development (CPI... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Shore Road crash causing delays in Newtownabbey | A two car collision on the Shore Road on Thursday morning is causing significant delays on the road. The crash happened just after 8.30am at the junction between the Shore Road and Glenville Road. The road is down to one lane in each direction, with delays reported heading towards Carrickfergus and traffic backed up to... | Road Crash | null | null |
1 person dead in apparent gas explosion in western New York, fire official says | One person is believed to be dead after an apparent gas explosion Tuesday rocked a suburban neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.
Lackawanna Fire Captain Andrew Kaminski told USA TODAY that fire, arson, police and utility crews were at the scene of the explosion Tuesday morning in western New York.
Kaminski said one perso... | Gas explosion | null | null |
12 killed, 150 injured in powerful gas explosion in central China | Press Trust of India Last Updated at June 14, 2021 02:11 IST
A powerful gas line explosion ripped through a residential neighbourhood in central China's Hubei Province on Sunday early morning, killing at least 12 people and injuring 150 others, incl... | Gas explosion | null | null |
2016 Niger flood |
Heavy rains during the months of June, July and August 2016 resulted in extreme flooding of various rivers throughout Niger, particularly the Niger River, where the floods caused material damage and loss of life in Niger and other countries along the river's path. [1][2][3][4]
Since 2000, flooding in Niger has intens... | Floods | null | null |
India formally invites Australia to join the 2020 Malabar trilateral naval exercise, Australia confirms full participation: Read details | The Malabar naval exercise finally becomes a Quad event after Australia confirms full participation in the military exercise with India, US and Japan scheduled in November this year. The Malabar naval exercise finally becomes a Quad event after Australia confirms full participation in the military exercise with India, ... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Meadow Well riots | The Meadow Well riots were a series of violent protests that took place on September 9, 1991 on the Meadow Well council estate, east of Newcastle, England. The bulk of the Meadow Well Estate was built in the 1930s to accommodate low income residents who were displaced by slum clearances in nearby North Shields. It was ... | Riot | null | null |
Sarasota deputies investigate a bank robbery at Wells Fargo | SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a bank robbery that took place shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday morning at the Wells Fargo at 3625 Bee Ridge Road over in Sarasota. A white male believed to be in his mid 50′s walked into the bank and demanded money before fleeing. The suspect h... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Remote Aboriginal community sells art, crowdfunds to have uranium-free water supply |
A remote community in Western Australia's outback is crowdfunding and selling art to raise money to fix its water supply, which has uranium levels more than twice the national health standards.
Buttah Windee is 760 kilometres north-east of Perth on the outskirts of Meekatharra.
Andrew Binsiar, a local Yamatji elder an... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Sambas riots |
The Sambas riots were an outbreak of inter-ethnic violence in Indonesia, in 1999. The conflict started in the regency of Sambas, West Kalimantan Province. The conflict involved Malay allying with the indigenous Dayak people in order to massacre the migrant Madurese from the island of Madura. [1]
The Sambas riots i... | Riot | null | null |
2013 Trappes riots | Riots broke out in Trappes, a suburb (banlieue) of Paris, France on 19 July 2013 after the police arrested a man who assaulted a police officer, who tried to check the identity of his wife wearing a Muslim veil on 18 July 2013. France officially banned face covering in public places in April 2011. [8] Although disputed... | Riot | null | null |
Kolavia Flight 348 crash | On 1 January 2011, Kolavia Flight 348, a Tupolev Tu-154 on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Surgut to Moscow, Russia, caught fire and burned down while taxiing out for take-off. Passengers were evacuated, but three were killed and 43 injured. A subsequent investigation concluded that the fire had started in a... | Air crash | null | null |
Noyeks fire |
The Noyeks fire was a fatal fire that took place at the Noyeks timber factory on Parnell St, Dublin, Ireland on 27 March 1972, and claimed the lives of 8 people;[1] seven women and one man who died in the inferno. [2]
On the morning of the fire, the central heating was out of order and mobile gas heaters had been hi... | Fire | null | null |
2016 Malta Fairchild Merlin crash | On 24 October 2016, a twin turboprop Fairchild SA227-AT Merlin IVC operated by CAE Aviation crashed near Kirkop, Malta, shortly after take-off from Malta International Airport. The aircraft was to operate in the vicinity of Misurata in Libya on a surveillance mission by the French Ministry of Defence. All five people o... | Air crash | null | null |
Kimberley-Clark fined $200,000 over 'misleading' claims flushable wipes were made in Australia | A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern parts of Mokine, in WA's Northam Shire. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency
The makers of Kleenex flu... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Memphis PD identify the passenger with the woman shot and killed by MPD officer along South 3rd Street in Memphis | Memphis PD identify the passenger with the woman shot and killed by MPD officer along South 3rd Street in Memphis
Memphis Police Department say that 24-year-old Timothy Morgan admitted to being the passenger and is charged with theft of property $2500-$10000.
Author: Kim Chaney
Published: 3:16 PM CST December 15, 2021
... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Biathlon World Championships 2016 | The 48th Biathlon World Championships was held in Oslo, Norway from 3 to 13 March 2016. [1]
There were 11 competitions in total: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, relay races for men and women, and mixed relay. All the events during this championships also counted towards the Biathlon World Cup. Oslo was the so... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Full Text: Remarks by Chinese President Xi Jinping at Climate Ambition Summit | Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the Climate Ambition Summit via video link on Dec. 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)
BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday delivered a speech via video link at the Climate Ambition Summit.
Please see the attachment for the translation of the full text of t... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
Asbestos removalist gets suspended sentence for assault but company fined for illegal stockpiles | A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern parts of Mokine, in WA's Northam Shire. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency
A South Australian waste ... | Organization Fine | null | null |
20 people taken to hospital after carbon monoxide leak in Vancouver apartment building | The site of a carbon monoxide leak is pictured the day after, on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021.
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More than a dozen people were taken to hospital as a result of a carbon monoxide leak in a downtown Vancouver apartment building Monday.
B.C. Emergency Health Services told CTV News that a total of 20 people were taken... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Volkswagen's Audi fined 800 million euros over diesel emissions scandal | A Victorian man who flew from Brisbane to Hobart on flight VA702 today has tested positive to COVID-19 and has not been allowed to board a flight to Melbourne
A Watch & Act warning is in place for a fire in the northern parts of Mokine, in WA's Northam Shire. Keep up to date with ABC Emergency
German law enforcement au... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Biden adds measles to list of quarantinable diseases after Afghan refugees’ outbreak | President Joe Biden signed an executive order adding measles to the list of quarantinable diseases after several Afghan refugees who had recently arrived in the US tested positive for the disease, pictured here, refugee tents in New Mexico, on Sept. 10. (David Goldman/AP) by: Sam Fossum and Kevin Liptak, CNN Posted: Se... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Yemen has “never looked more likely to slide into famine”, Foreign Secretary warns | New funding announced today takes the UK’s contribution to the crisis to over £1 billion. A baby suffering from malnutrition is fed by his mother in a hospital in Sana’a, Yemen. Picture: UNICEF The humanitarian situation in Yemen is rapidly deteriorating and the war-torn country has never been more at ris... | Famine | null | null |
2016 United States Elizabethkingia outbreak | An outbreak of Elizabethkingia anophelis infections centered in Wisconsin [4][5] is thought to have led to the death of at least 20 people in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois. [6][7][1][2]
As of March 2016, it was reported to be the largest outbreak of Elizabethkingia anophelis-caused disease investigated by the Cent... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Five killed as gold mine collapses in Ikolomani | Five people have died after the walls of a gold mine collapsed on them in Bushiagala in Ikolomani Sub-county, Kakamega. Eight miners are nursing injuries at the Kakamega Country Referral Hospital after they were pulled from the rubble. “They suffered various degree of soft tissue injuries and some were critically injur... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Israeli, Swedish foreign ministers talk on phone after seven years of silence | Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced this morning he had spoken on the phone with his Swedish counterpart, Ann Linde, ending a seven-year diplomatic rift between the two countries. "I spoke with Ann Linde, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden. This phone conversation, the first in 7 years between the Foreign Mini... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
1981 Chapeltown riots |
The Chapeltown Riots of 1981 took place in the Leeds district of Chapeltown in West Yorkshire, England, during a time when many other areas of the UK were suffering similar problems (such as London, Birmingham and Liverpool). The riots unfolded in July 1981 from a background of racial tension, inner city poverty, poor... | Riot | null | null |
Europe’s military presence highlights Asia’s importance | The British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth docked at Yokosuka Naval Base this week, after holding military drills with Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Forces (MSDF) and other navies. European military forces have an expanding presence in this part of the world, a recognition of the ever-larger ... | Military Exercise | null | null |
American Airlines Flight 1420 crash | American Airlines Flight 1420 was a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to Little Rock National Airport in the United States. On June 1, 1999, the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating as Flight 1420 overran the runway upon landing in Little Rock and crashed. Eleven of the 145 people aboard were kille... | Air crash | null | null |
NOAA’s tsunami sensors went down ahead of 10th anniversary of Japan’s Tohoku disaster | This month as Japan commemorated the 10-year anniversary of a tsunami that killed thousands of people, the United States has been reckoning with the vulnerability of its own systems for detecting the massive sea waves. The nation’s main tsunami detection system experienced an outage March 9 when a broken water pipe in ... | Tsunamis | null | null |
1930 Costești wooden church fire | In 1930, a devastating fire destroyed the wooden church in Costești, a small town in Argeș County, Romania, and killed 118 people, mostly primary school and high school students, the youngest of them being an 8-year-old girl. [1] The event was also known in Romanian press as the Black Easter. The fire took place on 18 ... | Fire | null | null |
2012 Chiba earthquake | The 2012 Chiba earthquake (千葉県東方沖地震, Chiba-ken Toho-oki Jishin, lit. "Offshore Eastern Chiba Earthquake") occurred along the northeastern coast of Chiba Prefecture, Japan at 21:05 JST (12:05 UTC) on Wednesday, 14 March. Although its epicentre lay just offshore near Chōshi city, the shallow magnitude 6.1 Mj earthquake p... | Earthquakes | null | null |
17 Wisconsinites Have Had Ivermectin Poisoning. Doctors Urge People Like Ron Johnson to Stop Promoting It. | Calls to poison control centers across the US are increasing as more people consume a medication used to treat livestock for worms because they wrongly believe it will alleviate COVID-19. The rising number of emergency room visits has doctors in Wisconsin and elsewhere offering an urgent warning to not take ivermectin,... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Pakistan claims devastating locust attack brought under control | The infestation had forced the government to declare a national emergency as the invading insects ravaged crops. Pakistani officials have claimed the country has eradicated swarms of desert locust, months after declaring a national emergency to battle the infestation. “By the grace of God and efforts of all, we can dec... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
2006 Tonga earthquake | The 2006 Tonga earthquake occurred on 4 May at 04:26:35 local time with a moment magnitude of 8.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (very strong). One injury occurred and a non-destructive tsunami was observed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a... | Earthquakes | null | null |
NortonLifeLock and Avast joining forces in $8 billion merger | NortonLifeLock is planning to merge with Avast in a deal worth more than $8 billion, the enterprises announced Tuesday. Avast, based in Prague, and NortonLifeLock, based in Tempe, Ariz., are competitors in the consumer antivirus industry. Both have antivirus and VPN products at the forefront of their offerings, but the... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Aldershot van explosion: Woman hospitalised with burns after leaking gas cylinder causes fire | A woman has been taken to hospital with burns after a van exploded in Aldershot. Firefighters were called to White Road at 7.50am on Wednesday (September 22) following reports of an explosion. Residents on social media reported hearing a loud bang in the area. READ MORE: The 'disgusting' and 'filthy' conditions British... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Tahmoor mine polluting water in Bargo and Nepean rivers with 'cocktail of metals' |
Experts have warned about polluted water running off a mine site and ending up in a major river which eventually supplies some of Sydney's water.
Researchers from Western Sydney University have found a "cocktail of metals" in the Tahmoor coal mine's run-off which flows into the Bargo and Nepean rivers in south-west Sy... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
United Express Flight 5925 crash | United Express Flight 5925, operated by Great Lakes Airlines with a Beechcraft 1900 twin turboprop, was a regularly scheduled flight from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Quincy, Illinois, with an intermediate stop in Burlington, Iowa. On November 19, 1996, the aircraft collided on landing at Quincy with another... | Air crash | null | null |
Fly Jamaica Airways Flight 256 crash | Fly Jamaica Airways Flight 256 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana to Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada. The Boeing 757 aircraft serving the flight suffered a technical fault on 9 November 2018, forcing its return and resulting in a runway excur... | Air crash | null | null |
EuroBasket 1975 | The 1975 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1975, was the nineteenth FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. 1. Yugoslavia: Krešimir Ćosić, Dražen Dalipagić, Mirza Delibašić, Dragan Kićanović, Zoran Slavnić, Nikola Plećaš, Željko Jerkov, Vinko Jelovac, Damir Šolma... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Police investigate bank robbery on Gold Coast | Thieves have used a ramming device attached to a van to force their way into a Gold Coast bank this morning. Two men wearing balaclavas drove the white van through plate glass windows at the Commonwealth Bank at Ashmore around 8:30am (AEST). One of the men was armed with a sawn-off rifle. Detective Acting Inspector Chr... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
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Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 crash | Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 was a regularly scheduled flight from Pensacola, Florida, to Atlanta, Georgia. On July 6, 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a McDonnell Douglas MD-88, was on takeoff roll from Runway 17 at Pensacola when it experienced an uncontained, catastrophic turbine engine failure that caused debr... | Air crash | null | null |
1902 World Figure Skating Championships | The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion. The competition took place on 13 February in London, United Kingdom. It was assumed that only men would compete in the event, and ... | Sports Competition | null | null |
2019 Albania earthquake |
Northwestern Albania was struck by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake with an epicentre 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west-southwest of Mamurras, at 03:54 CET (UTC+1) on 26 November 2019. [7][8] The earthquake lasted at least 50 seconds and was felt in Albania's capital Tirana, and in places as far away as Bari, Taranto and Belgrad... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Trump administration notifies U.N. of withdrawal from World Health Organization | by: Associated Press, Kareen Wynter The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, although the pullout won’t take effect until next year, meaning it could be rescinded under a new administration or if circumstances change. Former Vice Presiden... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
WHO is setting up a hub in South Africa | World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference in Geneva Switzerland July 3, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini/Pool via REUTERS GENEVA, June 21 (Reuters) - The WHO is setting up a hub in South Africa to give companies from poor and middle-income countries the know-how and li... | Organization Established | null | null |
Desert locust attack in Abu Dhabi controlled | The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) surveyed 200,967 donums to monitor and track the migration of desert locusts across border regions adjacent to the UAE during 2020. India: Kamal Haasan ‘recovering well’ from Covid-19 infection, says da... ADAFSA’s control teams sprayed about 85,948 donums ... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Funding for students during the COVID-19 pendemic | Wittenberg University will disburse $2,257,383 million in total funding to students as part of the Higher Education Relief Fund III & the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021 through the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The funds that were allocated for immediate student distribution were provided to offset any cos... | Financial Aid | null | null |
Harald Reichenbach is preserving ocean waste in cubes to keep the issue in sight |
Marseille, Colombia, Vanuatu, Galapagos: the list of places to where Harald Reichenbach has travelled to salvage ocean waste could fill an atlas.
In each location he has collected some unusual souvenirs.
The Swiss artist has been collecting marine waste, strewn over beaches or blanketing oceans, and converting it into... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Ebola Resource Center | A genetic analysis has linked a new Ebola outbreak in Guinea to the West African Ebola epidemic that ended in 2016. “It's been 5 years since the outbreak occurred in West Africa, and this shows us a lot about what we need to learn about the dynamics of transmission, and also further understanding how Ebola virus diseas... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Air West Flight 612 crash | Air West Flight 612 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Air West between Khartoum, Sudan and Al-Fashir. [3] On January 24, 2007, with 103 people on board, the flight, operated by a Boeing 737, was hijacked shortly after takeoff by a male individual. [3][4] The plane landed safely at N'Djamena, Chad, w... | Air crash | null | null |
The Liangzhu archeological site, hailed as one of the most important relic sites of the Neolithic Age in China | Among the exquisite jade objects unearthed at the Fanshan site, there is a unique type, shaped like trident. The Liangzhu archeological site, hailed as one of the most important relic sites of the Neolithic Age in China, is a window to one of the world's oldest civilizations. Named after the locale where its evidence w... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Turkish Airlines Flight 301 crash | The 1974 Turkish Airlines Izmir crash occurred on January 26, 1974 when a Turkish Airlines Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship airliner, registration TC-JAO, named Van, on a domestic flight in Turkey from Izmir Cumaovası Airport (IZM) to Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport (IST/LTBA), stalled shortly after takeoff due to over-rotation an... | Air crash | null | null |
Kimberley teenager released from detention after spending 'weeks' in confinement | A Kimberley boy who is believed to have spent "weeks at a time" in a confined cell at Western Australia's only juvenile detention facility has been released. The 14-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was first jailed in August over a violent crime wave across Broome, which saw him lead a group of children... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Release | null | null |
Seguin rallies around Navarro High senior diagnosed with testicular cancer | But one Navarro High School football and baseball player had no idea his body was dealing with something serious until he was checked for an unrelated injury. Now, the City of Seguin has rallied around him as he fights testicular cancer.
Triston Brashears Cervantes donned #8 for the Navarro Panthers for his senior year... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
Iowa Department of
Public Safety | On Thursday, November 25, 2021, the Algona Police Department requested the assistance of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation to investigate an officer-involved shooting which had occurred on the corner of Highway 169 and Norwood Drive in Algona.
The Algona Police Department responded to a disturbance call at t... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team plane crash | The Oklahoma State University Cowboys basketball team plane crash occurred on January 27, 2001, at 19:37 EST, when a Beechcraft Super King Air 200, registration N81PF, carrying 2 players on the Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team along with 6 OSU broadcasters & members of the OSU coaching staff, crashed in a field 4... | Air crash | null | null |
NIOSH: Prohibited Drilling Led to 2018 WI Blast in LODD | According to the report, crews were called concerning a natural gas leak about a block away from the fire station. Once there, they encountered resistant civilians who were unwilling to leave the area, and the incident commander requested additional personnel.
Barr and several other firefighters entered a building near... | Gas explosion | null | null |
First Nation's negotiations with Enbridge collapse over 2018 northern B.C. gas pipeline explosion | Talks between the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation and Enbridge, over an October 2018 northern B.C. pipeline explosion, have collapsed.
Lheidli T'enneh Dayi (Chief) Clay Pountney says the First Nation's civil lawsuit against Enbridge, filed in Prince George Supreme Court in February 2019, will now proceed.
"The Enbridge ... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Robbinsville, NJ parents hold protest after COVID school closing | Parents protesting the closure of Robbinsville High School because of a COVID-19 outbreak (Dennis N. Symons Jr) About 30 parents carried signs to protest the weeklong closure of Robbinsville High School and a temporary return to remote learning because of a COVID-19 outbreak. The school was closed on Friday afternoon ... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 crash |
On November 14, 1992 Vietnam Airlines flight 474 crashed during a tropical cyclone as it approached Nha Trang. The Yakovlev Yak-40 aircraft was carrying 25 passengers and six crew. Only one person, a passenger, survived. The sixteen year old Soviet-built aircraft had departed Ho Chi Minh City. As it neared Nha Trang ... | Air crash | null | null |
Regina police investigating after downtown bank robbery | Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Copy Url Police are investigating after a mid-morning bank robbery in downtown Regina on Friday. According to the Regina Police Service, officers were sent to a ba... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery Strike |
On February 1, 2015, United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (United Steelworkers or USW) announced that "more than 5,200 USW Oil Workers at 11 refineries in California, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and Washington are on strike again... | Strike | null | null |
Garley Building fire |
The Garley Building fire took place on 20 November 1996 in the 16-storey Garley commercial building (Chinese: 嘉利大廈) located at 232–240 Nathan Road, Jordan, Hong Kong. [3][2][4] It was a catastrophe that caused 41 deaths and 81 injuries. [2] It is considered the worst building fire in Hong Kong during peacetime. The f... | Fire | null | null |
Trove of Nazi Artifacts Found Stashed in Wall of German House | Likely hidden as the Allies advanced on the city at the end of WWII, the cache includes gas masks, a revolver and boxes of documents Last month, a history teacher cleaning his aunt’s house in Hagen, Germany, after severe flooding discovered a trove of Nazi artifacts hidden behind a wall, reports David Crossland for th... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Juventus offices raided as club investigated for financial irregularities | Italian police visited the Italian club’s offices in Turin and Milan on Friday where they took documents about transfers, invoices and financial statements.
The investigation is regarding profit from transfers and agents fees between 2019 and 2021.
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Sriwijaya Air Flight 62 crash | Sriwijaya Air Flight 62 (SJ62/SSY62) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight, operated by Indonesian airline Sriwijaya Air from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta to Sultan Thaha Airport, Jambi. On 27 August 2008, the aircraft operating the flight, a Boeing 737 series 200 registered as PK-CJG, overran the ... | Air crash | null | null |
The launch of the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observatory is now targeting December 13, 2021 | The launch of the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observatory is now targeting December 13, 2021, onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IXPE X-Ray observatory is the latest spacecraft in NASA’s historic Small Explorers (SMEX) program. The IXPE mission was first select... | New achievements in aerospace | null | null |
1958 Syerston Avro Vulcan crash | The 1958 Syerston Avro Vulcan crash was an aviation accident that occurred in England on 20 September 1958 during an air show at RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire when a prototype Avro Vulcan bomber crashed. All four crew on board and three people on the ground were killed. [1]
On the day of the accident VX770 was flyin... | Air crash | null | null |
2005 New York City transit strike |
The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers. In December 2005, the TWU Local 100 called a strike in New York City. Negotiation... | Strike | null | null |
2003 IBF World Championships | The 2003 IBF World Championships were held in the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, United Kingdom, between 28 July and 3 August 2003. The championships had originally been planned to take place from 12 May-18 May, but were rescheduled following the international outbreak of SARS. [1]
This edition also rewarded the p... | Sports Competition | null | null |
African Union and EDCTP sign Memorandum of Understanding to promote new paradigm in health | ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, and THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS, September 14, 2021 – The African Union (AU) through the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), and the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at establish... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Implications Of The U.S. Withdrawal From The TPP | CEO of Country Risk Solutions and widely published author on current affairs and risk management. New book: "Virtual Terror". President-Elect Trump's threat to withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) should be taken seriously, despite how mercurial he has already proven to be in failing to follow thr... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Milwaukee Marathon canceled for 2021 | and last updated 2021-09-24 15:55:17-04 MILWAUKEE — Amid speculation over cancellation concerns, the Milwaukee Marathon officially announced Thursday that it has canceled the event for 2021, for a second year in a row. Organizers said in a social media post that like most canceled events these days, the COVID-19 pandem... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Authorities warn of vandalism risk as 'time capsule' shipwreck re-emerges on NSW beach | The shipwreck of the Buster on Woolgoolga Beach, north of Coffs Harbour, has been exposed by recent storms and wild weather. Parts of the shipwreck are regularly exposed but many locals said they had never seen so much of the hull. The director of operations at Heritage NSW, Tim Smith, said there had been reports of s... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Bend man killed in Highway 20 SUV crash in Malheur County | BURNS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Bend man was killed Thursday when his SUV left U.S. Highway 20 east of Burns and crashed into a tree, Oregon State Police reported Friday. OSP troopers and other emergency personnel responded around 10:45 a.m. to the reported crash near Milepost 181, in the area of Drinkwater Pass in Malheur Coun... | Road Crash | null | null |
United Kingdom officially leaves the European Union with Boris Johnson calling it 'the dawn of a new era' | United Kingdom officially leaves the European Union with Boris Johnson calling it 'the dawn of a new era' The United Kingdom has officially left the European Union, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling the moment "the dawn of a new era." As of 11:00pm (local time), the drawn-out Brexit process formally entered a ... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
2012 Northern Italy earthquakes |
In May 2012, two major earthquakes struck Northern Italy, causing 27 deaths and widespread damage. The events are known in Italy as 2012 Emilia earthquakes, because they mainly affected the Emilia region. The first earthquake, registering magnitude 6.1, struck in the Emilia-Romagna region, about 36 kilometres (22 mi)... | Earthquakes | null | null |
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