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By one measure, this recovery is 10 times faster than the one after the Great Recession—but there’s a catch | The early months of the coronavirus pandemic saw the U.S. economy plunge at its fastest rate in history. Over a two-month period, the jobless rate shot up from 3.5% in February 2020 to 14.7% in April—its highest level since 1940—while second-quarter GDP declined 32.9% on an annualized basis. During this period the Cong... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
1971 NYPD Work Stoppage | The 1971 NYPD Work Stoppage occurred for five days between January 14 and January 19, 1971, when around 20,000 New York City police officers refused to report for regular duty. [1] While officers maintained that they would continue to respond to serious crimes and emergencies, they refused to carry out routine patrolli... | Strike | null | null |
1962 Rangoon University protests |
Bombings and attacks
Protests and government changes
Anti-Muslim violence
The 1962 Rangoon University protests were a series of marches, demonstrations, and protests against stricter campus regulations, the end of the system of university self-administration, and the policy of the new military regime of General Ne... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
World hunger again on the rise, driven by conflict and climate change, new UN report says | World hunger again on the rise, driven by conflict and climate change, new UN report says 815 million people now hungry – Millions of children at risk from malnutrition 15 September 2017, Rome - After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 p... | Famine | null | null |
More Americans couldn’t get enough to eat in 2020, while places like schools, offices and restaurants were closed in initial months of the pandemic | Zheng Tian's work related to this article was supported in part by the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under project #2020-51150-31870 and by the Pennsylvania State University and NIFA Multistate/Regional Research Appropriations under project #NE1749. Steph... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Indonesia’s Most Volatile Volcano Mount Merapi Erupts | Hot cloud of volcanic materials run down the slope of Mount Merapi during an eruption in Sleman, ... [+] Indonesia, Friday, June 25, 2021. Indonesia's most volatile volcano - Mount Merapi on the island of Java - erupted this morning. Java is Indonesia's most densely populated island and hosts fifteen active volcanoes. ... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Caldecott Tunnel fire | The Caldecott Tunnel fire killed seven people in the third (then-northernmost) bore of the Caldecott Tunnel, on State Route 24 between Oakland and Orinda in the U.S. state of California, just after midnight on 7 April 1982. It is one of the few major tunnel fires involving a cargo normally considered to be highly flamm... | Fire | null | null |
Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics | This was not the first time Angrist was nominated for a Nobel Prize, having been among the frontrunners in 2019. Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist is seen in 2011. Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist was awarded the 2021 Nobel economics prize together with David Card and Guido Imbens on Monday for pione... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Trapped for 2 weeks, 11 workers rescued from gold mine in China | Eleven workers trapped for two weeks inside a gold mine in China were brought safely to the surface on Sunday, a landmark achievement for an industry long blighted by disasters and high death tolls. State broadcaster CCTV showed workers being hauled up one-by-one in baskets, their eyes shielded to protect them after so... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Philly implements less stringent protocols for COVID-19 school closures | Regardless of community transmission rates, the health department recommends teachers who aren’t fully vaccinated get tested weekly. and it’s likely setting up testing logistics will take weeks, she said. Still, the changes are designed to keep learning activities uninterrupted as safely possible during the pandemic. “... | Organization Closed | null | null |
2017 Quebec floods |
Spring snowfall and heavy rain caused floods in southern Quebec on 3 May 2017. In total, 5,371 residences were flooded, 4,066 people were forced from their homes, and 261 municipalities were affected, largely in the Outaouais Region, the Greater Montreal Area, the Montérégie, the Mauricie, the Gaspésie and the Côte-N... | Floods | null | null |
PMA and United Fresh Produce Association To Merge in 2022 | Two of the most influential trade associations in the produce industry, Produce Marketing Association (PMA) and United Fresh Produce Association, will soon become a single organization. The Boards of Directors for the both organizations say the new association launches January 1, 2022. In the remaining months of 2021, ... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Volcanic activity has been reported for Mount Ili Lewotolok in East Nusa Tenggara | Volcanic activity has been reported for Mount Ili Lewotolok in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia by the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) Darwin on 29 November 2020, 1020h. This volcanic activity is reported based on aerial, satellite and/or ground observations. According to Indonesia's Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Ben... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Act now to avert disaster in drought-hit East Africa, aid agencies say | NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - East Africa could suffer a repeat of a 2011 famine that killed hundreds of thousands of people unless foreign donors stump up funds to help drought-hit communities in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia now, aid agencies warned on Thursday. More than 15 million people across the Horn of A... | Famine | null | null |
Ahead of the curve: Factors in political change | The evacuation of US and coalition troops and civilians from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover in August prompted us to examine other episodes of regime change and how equity markets reacted. Markets track and react to what is dominating the news agenda. The Afghanistan pull-out that began in February 2020 and conc... | Regime Change | null | null |
Oklahoma earthquake swarms (2009–present) | The Oklahoma earthquake swarms are an ongoing series of human activity-induced earthquakes affecting central Oklahoma, southern Kansas, northern Texas since 2009. Beginning in 2009, the frequency of earthquakes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma rapidly increased from an average of fewer than two 3.0+ magnitude earthquakes... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Southall rail crash |
The Southall rail crash occurred on 19 September 1997, on the Great Western Main Line at Southall, west London. An InterCity 125 high speed passenger train (HST) failed to slow down in response to warning signals and collided with a freight train crossing its path, causing seven deaths and 139 injuries. The signaller... | Train collisions | null | null |
1945 Anti-Jewish riots in Egypt | The Balfour Day riots, took place between 2 and 3 November 1945. The riots began as anti-Jewish demonstrations on the 28th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Rallies were organised by the right-wing Young Egypt Party and Hassan al-Banna's Muslim Brotherhood. Five Egyptian Jews and one Muslim policeman were killed ... | Riot | null | null |
LOOK: Yam Concepcion, Miguel Cuunjieng wed in New York | Yam Concepcion has tied the knot with her longtime non-showbiz boyfriend Miguel Cuunjieng on Sunday, July 25 (Saturday, July 24 in the USA) in New York, USA. According to ABS-CBN News reporter MJ Felipe, the couple “exchanged ‘I do’s' in an intimate civil ceremony attended by family members and close friends.” | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Biggest Celebrity Breakups of 2020: Olivia Wilde & Jason Sudeikis, Kelly Clarkson & Brandon Blackstock & More |
This year we've witnessed several celebrities end their romantic relationships. Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis shocked fans when they announced their split after nine years together. Demi Lovato and Max Ehrich had a whirlwind romance that resulted in an engagement but fizzled out after approximately six months of da... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Crevalcore train crash | The Crevalcore train crash was a major railway accident which occurred on 7 January 2005 on the Verona–Bologna railway, Italy, killing 17. It was one of the worst accidents in the recent history of the state railway company Ferrovie dello Stato. In the accident, a cargo and a passenger train collided in dense fog after... | Train collisions | null | null |
East German uprising of 1953 |
The East German uprising of 1953 (German: Volksaufstand vom 17. Juni 1953 ) was an uprising that occurred in East Germany from 16 to 17 June 1953. It began with a strike action by construction workers in East Berlin on 16 June against work quotas during the Sovietization process in East Germany. Demonstrations in Eas... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Esperanza Fire | The Esperanza Fire was a large, wind-driven, arson-caused wildfire that started on October 26, 2006, in a river wash near Cabazon, California, west of Palm Springs, California. By October 29, 2006, it had burned over 41,173 acres (166.62 km2) (or 61 square miles (160 km2)) and was 85% contained. On October 30, 2006, th... | Fire | null | null |
New Brunswick miner dies in workplace accident at Ontario mine | HALIFAX -- The Ontario Provincial Police has confirmed a New Brunswick man has died in a mining incident near Thunder Bay, Ont.
Officers with the Thunder Bay detachment of the OPP responded to a report of a mining incident at the Impala Canada mine, located on Highway 527, north of Thunder Bay, shortly after 3 p.m. W... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Henan Airlines Flight 8387 crash |
China's Henan Airlines Flight 8387 Overshoots Runway Killing 42
August 25, 2010 -
On Tuesday China's regional airline, Henan Airlines, Flight 8387 (VD
8387) had departed Harbin Taiping International Airport, Harbin, China
to Yichun Lindu Airport,
Yichun, China crashed. On board the Embraer ... | Air crash | null | null |
Lawyer Steven Donziger gets six-month sentence for contempt in Chevron battle | Judge orders prison for indigenous rights campaigner despite UN experts’ opinion that his treatment broke international law Last modified on Fri 1 Oct 2021 19.54 BST Steven Donziger, the US indigenous rights campaigner and lawyer who spent decades battling the energy firm Chevron over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainfo... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Iran Air Flight 291 crash | Iran Air Flight 291 was a flight that crash landed on January 21, 1980. The flight, carried on a Boeing 727-86, was making a flight from Mashad Airport to Tehran-Mehrabad Airport in Iran. At 19:11 local time, the plane crashed into the Alborz Mountains, 29 kilometres (18 mi) north of Tehran, during its approach to Tehr... | Air crash | null | null |
Air Caribbean Flight 309 crash | Air Caribbean flight 309 was a domestic, non-scheduled airline flight by Puerto Rican airline Air Caribbean, which on September 26, 1978, crashed as it was preparing to land at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (then known, unofficially, as Isla Verde International Airport) in San Juan, after a flight from Ramey A... | Air crash | null | null |
State investigating officer-involved “critical incident” in Columbia County | MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) -State investigators are looking into an officer-involved shooting in the Town of Scott in Columbia County that occurred Sunday afternoon.
A news release from the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) said the Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is looking into a “critical incident” near Hwy 3... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
2012 Astrakhan gas explosion | The 2012 Astrakhan gas explosion occurred on February 27, 2012 at an apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. It was caused by a natural gas explosion. Anzhelika Barinova of Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry says another five people are missing after Monday's explosion in Astrakhan, 1... | Gas explosion | null | null |
2018 Molise earthquakes | The 2018 Molise earthquake hit the Italian regions of Molise on 15 August at 19:15:00 (UTC). The earthquake measured 4.2 on the Richter scale and its epicentre was around a kilometer from the town of Acquaviva di Collecroce, in the province of Campobasso in Molise. First an earthquake of magnitude 4.7 hit the region. T... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Indiana Man Arrested for Attempted Santa Monica Bank Robbery | Santa Monica police arrested an Indiana man who attempted to rob a bank with a shotgun this week. According to the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD), on December 8 at around 9:20 a.m., the dispatch received a call of an armed robbery in progress at the Wells Fargo Bank on 170 Pier Avenue. Police say the robbery was... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Stony Creek pollution from warehouse fire 'as bad as it could be' and no plan yet for clean-up | Stony Creek pollution from warehouse fire 'as bad as it could be' and no plan yet for clean-up
Anxious residents in Melbourne's western suburbs have demanded Premier Daniel Andrews visit the area to inspect the damage caused by last month's industrial inferno at a West Footscray warehouse.
The Friends of the Stony Cre... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
This Is the New No. 1 Cause of Food Poisoning, CDC Study Says | The foods have led to a surprising number of E.coli and salmonella outbreaks. It's common knowledge that handling or preparing certain foods the wrong way can get you pretty sick if you eat them after. Typically, this involves washing fruit and veggies before cooking them, storing items at the appropriate temperature,... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
2011 Magallanes protests |
The 2011 Magallanes protests were a series of protests provoked by the rising of natural gas prices in the Chilean region of Magallanes, in January 2011. The conflict ended on January 18, when Laurence Golborne and the Citizens Assembly of Magallanes reached an agreement. On December 29, 2010, the directory of Empres... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Laura Ingalls Wilder and One of The Greatest Natural ... | Laura Ingalls Wilder and One of The Greatest Natural Disasters in American History
When a Trillion Locusts Ate Everything in Sight
By Caroline Fraser
December 5, 2017
In the fall of 1873, Charles and Caroline Ingalls sold their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, the log cabin where their two oldest daughters ... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
2016 Channel One Cup | The 2016 Channel One Cup was played between 15–18 December 2016. The Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and Russia played a round-robin for a total of three games per team and six games in total. Five of the matches were played in the VTB Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia, and one match in the Helsingin jäähalli in Helsinki, F... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Ozark Air Lines Flight 650 crash | Ozark Air Lines Flight 650 was a regularly scheduled flight on December 20, 1983 from Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, to Sioux Falls Regional Airport in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. While landing in Sioux Falls, the aircraft struck a snow plow on the runway and burst into flames. The snow plow's driver was kil... | Air crash | null | null |
June 2013 Egyptian protests |
The 2012–2013 Egyptian protests (sometimes called the Hirak Uprising) were part of the crisis in Egypt including the June 2013 protests, the July 2013 coup d'état, and part of the post-coup unrest. They saw varying opposition against three contiguous heads of state; namely, SCAF, Muslim Brotherhood, and the de fact... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight 147 crash | Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight 147 was a scheduled flight from Shahjalal International Airport, Bangladesh, to Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates, via Chittagong. On 24 February 2019, the aircraft operating the flight, a Biman Bangladesh Airlines Boeing 737-800, was hijacked 252 kilometres (157 mi) sou... | Air crash | null | null |
Blue Light (Part 7): Pioneering aircraft takedowns and free-fall jumps | Note: this is part of a series about America’s first counterterrorism unit. Blue Light participated in a number of major training exercises that were run by the REDCOM staff in conjunction with the Ranger battalions. These were called CT-EDREs. These training missions took place across America, some of them including ... | Military Exercise | null | null |
A Historic Enlargement: Ten Countries Prepare To Join the European Union | A Historic Enlargement: Ten Countries Prepare To Join the European Union
by Nancy Cochrane
From the day the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the governments of the formerly communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) began to discuss the idea of joining the European Union (EU). In May 2004, after a 14-year transit... | Join in an Organization | null | null |
1987 Nordic Indoor Athletics Championships | The 1987 Nordic Indoor Athletics Championships was the second and final edition of the international indoor athletics competition between Nordic countries and was held in Oslo, Norway. It consisted of 22 individual track and field events, 12 for men and 10 for women. Finland won the most golds for a second year, at nin... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Yizhou riots | The Yizhou riots occurred in fall of 2002. Yizhou (宜州) is a county-level city located in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in the southern part of the People's Republic of China. The city is home to several hundred thousand inhabitants, while the surrounding countryside is dotted with the villages of poor ethnic minori... | Riot | null | null |
1932 Eureka earthquake | The 1932 Eureka earthquake occurred on June 6 at 00:44:26 local time along the northern coastal area of California in the United States. With a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), this earthquake left one person dead from a falling chimney and several injured. The shock was the la... | Earthquakes | null | null |
NACE International and SSPC Merge to Form AMPP | NACE International and SSPC merged to form the AMPP, which will take on research, conferences, certifications and more for the corrosion control and protective coatings industries. NACE International, Th... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Keely Hodgkinson takes 800m silver to break Kelly Holmes' British record | By Tom Sizeland For Mailonline Published: 13:45 GMT, 3 August 2021 | Updated: 10:48 GMT, 4 August 2021 755
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Taliban now control over two-third districts of Afghanistan, regime change a certainty | UPDATED: August 15, 2021 17:21 IST Taliban has gained control of most of war-ravaged Afghanistan. (File Photo) The important northern Afghan city of Mazar-i- Sharif fell to the Taliban on Saturday , followed by the strategic city of Jalalabad a day after . With the capture of two key cities in two days, and that too, w... | Regime Change | null | null |
Oil spill fears as burnt-out chemical cargo ship sinks off Sri Lankan west coast |
A burnt-out container ship that has already caused Sri Lanka's worst maritime environmental disaster has continued sinking, with several hundred tonnes of oil still in its fuel tanks, the navy said.
The MV X-Press Pearl, carrying hundreds of tonnes of chemicals and plastics, burned for 13 days within sight of the isla... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
ADF ships drinking water to Katherine properties affected by contamination |
More than 40 properties around an Air Force base near Katherine are being supplied with drinking water by the Defence Department, as residents express shock at discovering they have been drinking from a contaminated supply.
The contamination has been linked to chemicals in firefighting foams previously used at RAAF Ba... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crash | Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was a scheduled domestic Indonesian passenger flight from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta to Polonia International Airport in Medan, North Sumatra, operated by Garuda Indonesia using an Airbus A300B4 registered PK-GAI. On 26 September 1997, Flight 152, on final approach into ... | Air crash | null | null |
A future-focused review must question Reserve Bank’s inflation target | The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development statement in the latest assessment of the Australian economy that there should be a review of the Reserve Bank of Australia is welcome news, Warwick McKibbin writes. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) rarely publishes documents that... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
In new book 'Surviving Savannah,' Southern shipwreck saga has ties to Wilmington | On June 14, 1838, the steam packet Pulaski, with some of the cream of Savannah society aboard, was cruising between Savannah, Ga., and Baltimore. Then, at about 11:04 p.m., the starboard boiler exploded. The paddle-wheeler sank within 45 minutes in open water. Only four lifeboats were on board -- two were so dried and ... | Shipwreck | null | null |
Georgia’s Lasha Talakhadze breaks weightlifting world record | Reigning Olympic and world champion Lasha Talakhadze retains his continental title and sets snatch world record. Photo: AP
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Georgian weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze has made history by snatching 217kg at the European Weightlifting Championships in Split, Croatia last... | Break historical records | null | null |
American Ryan Crouser breaks 31-year-old shot put world record | The 28-year-old who built a training pit at his home in Arkansas to stay on point during the coronavirus pandemic shattered a shot put world record Friday night that was set 2 1/2 years before he was born.
On Day 1 of U.S. Olympic Trials, he heaved the massive medal sphere 76 feet, 8 1/4 inches (23.37 meters) to put hi... | Break historical records | null | null |
Ethiopia: Locust threat in the east - Hiiraan Online | ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) - A swarm of locusts is likely to infest the eastern part of Ethiopia in mid-June, the Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA) has warned.
Abdurahman Abdulahi, senior research officer at DLCO-EA, told IRIN there was a potential threat to the Somali region, which shares a borde... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
The disaster mitigation agency said the tourism spot had been closed and the alert status of the volcano was being evaluated. | The disaster mitigation agency said the tourism spot had been closed and the alert status of the volcano was being evaluated.PHOTO: BNPB INDONESIA/TWITTER JAKARTA (XINHUA, REUTERS) - Indonesian authorities issued a flight alert notice after a volcano erupted near the country's third-biggest city of Bandung on Friday (... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
1948 Northwood mid-air collision crash | The 1948 Northwood mid-air collision took place on 4 July at 15:03 when a Douglas DC-6 of Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and an Avro York C.1 of the Royal Air Force (RAF) collided in mid-air over Northwood in London, UK (then in Middlesex). All thirty-nine people aboard both aircraft were killed. It was SAS's first... | Air crash | null | null |
JetBlue Flight 191 crash | JetBlue Flight 191 was a scheduled domestic commercial passenger flight from New York to Las Vegas, United States. On March 27, 2012, the Airbus A320 serving the route diverted to Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport, in Amarillo, Texas, after the captain, suffering from an apparent mental breakdown, started beh... | Air crash | null | null |
Suspected Bank Robber Caught by SJPD's New Chopper | San Jose police made good use their brand-new helicopter Wednesday when they tracked down and arrested a suspected bank robber, according to the department. San Jose police made good use of their brand-new helicopter Wednesday when they tracked down and arrested a suspected bank robber, according to the department. Bri... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
1963 Skopje earthquake |
The 1963 Skopje earthquake (Macedonian: Скопски земјотрес од 1963 година, romanized: Skopski zemjotres od 1963 godina) was a 6.1 moment magnitude earthquake which occurred in Skopje, SR Macedonia (present-day North Macedonia), then part of the SFR Yugoslavia, on July 26, 1963, which killed over 1,070 people, injured b... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Residents of remote NT community of Laramba lose legal battle over uranium in water |
Residents of the remote central Australian community of Laramba have lost a case against the Northern Territory Government over high levels of uranium in their drinking water.
Data compiled by the NT's Power and Water Corporation had shown there were 0.046 milligrams of uranium per litre (mg/L) in the town's water sup... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crash | An ATR 42 aircraft
The Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 (Flight number: AT630 ) was a scheduled flight of the airline Royal Air Maroc from airport Agadir to Casablanca airport . On August 21, 1994, an ATR 42-312 had an accident on this flight . All 44 people on board were killed in the accident. The most likely cause of the ... | Air crash | null | null |
Nine Nalgonda municipal employees held in ₹5-cr. fraud | Updated:
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The Nalgonda Town-II police, after investigations following financial audit reports, arrested accused persons in the ₹5.04-crore fra... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
BSAA Star Tiger disappearance crash | Star Tiger (registration G-AHNP) was an Avro Tudor IV passenger aircraft owned and operated by British South American Airways (BSAA) which disappeared without a trace over the Atlantic Ocean while on a flight between Santa Maria in the Azores and Bermuda in the early morning of 30 January 1948. The loss of the aircraft... | Air crash | null | null |
1985 Gujarat riots |
The 1969 Gujarat riots refer to the communal violence between Hindus and Muslims during September–October 1969, in Gujarat, India. The violence was Gujarat's first major riot that involved massacre, arson and looting on a large scale. It was the most deadly Hindu-Muslim violence since the partition of India in 1947, ... | Riot | null | null |
Louisiana Department of Health confirms two winter storm-related deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning | The Louisiana Department of Health on Saturday has confirmed two additional deaths tied to the February 2021 winter storm, bringing the statewide death toll to 5.
A 68-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman in Avoyelles Parish died of carbon monoxide poisoning after a generator was placed in the camper in which they were... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Monterey mudslides injure resident, damage 25 structures as L.A. braces for heavy rain | Heavy rains along the Central Coast triggered mudslides and debris flows, trapping a woman inside her home Wednesday near Salinas, Calif. The woman was able to escape and suffered moderate injuries, Monterey County Regional Fire District Deputy Fire Marshal Dorothy Priolo said. She was taken to a local hospital, where ... | Mudslides | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 36 (1976) crash | Aeroflot Flight 36 was a scheduled domestic Aeroflot passenger flight from Chernivtsi International Airport to Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany), Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic that crashed on 17 December 1976 near Kiev airport, resulting in 48 fatalities and 7 survivors. The aircraft involved in the accident ... | Air crash | null | null |
American Airlines Flight 444 crash | American Airlines Flight 444 was a scheduled American Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C.'s National Airport. On November 15, 1979, the Boeing 727 serving the flight was attacked by "the Unabomber", Ted Kaczynski, who placed a bomb on board. The bomb, planted in the cargo hold, caused "a sucking explosion ... | Air crash | null | null |
The Latest: Chinese city shuts down over new outbreak worry | BEIJING — Officials in the northeast China city of Harbin say national level health officials have been sent to the city to deal with what may be a coronavirus outbreak. The city of 9.5 million people reported three infection cases Wednesday, a day after discovering a first case of community transmission. After the ini... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Tsunami warning system gets $3 million 'fit for purpose' upgrade | Christchurch’s tsunami warning system is getting a $3 million upgrade as the city council installs sirens further inland and on Banks Peninsula. The existing 45 sirens, which extend from Brooklands to Taylors Mistake, were installed between 2011 and 2015 , and do not cover inland areas now deemed to be at risk of flood... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Mount Sinabung spewing ash and smoke into the sky, as seen from Karo, in North Sumatra | Mount Sinabung spewing ash and smoke into the sky, as seen from Karo, in North Sumatra, on May 7, 2021.PHOTO: AFP MEDAN, INDONESIA (AFP) - Indonesia's Mount Sinabung erupted on Friday (May 7), spewing a massive column of smoke and ash up to 2,800m into the sky. The volcano in North Sumatra province started belching as... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Highway 133 near Redstone reopens Friday morning after mudslides Thursday | News News | July 30, 2021 A section of Highway 133 near Redstone in the Crystal River Valley reopened Friday morning after mudslides Thursday caused by heavy rains rolled through earlier in the day. The state highway was closed between Coal Creek Road and Redstone Boulevard, about 8 miles north of McClure Pass, becaus... | Mudslides | null | null |
Hostages taken in Greece bank robbery | A man has taken hostages in a bank robbery in Athens' port of Piraeus, police say. The robber has released some hostages but still holds four captive. The bank robber fired shots in the air, police said, adding that no one had been injured. Negotiators are talking with him to convince him to free the remaining hostages... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
'Shouldn't be allowed out of bed!' Joe Biden humiliated following bizarre rambling speech | We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info
President Biden delivered an error-ridden speech during an appearance in Illinois where he c... | Famous Person - Give a speech | null | null |
Åsta accident |
The Åsta accident was a railway accident that occurred at 13:12:25 on 4 January 2000 at Åsta in Åmot, south of Rena in Østerdalen, Norway. A train from Trondheim collided with a local train from Hamar on the Røros Line, resulting in an explosive fire. 19 people were killed, while 67 survived the accident. Southbound ... | Train collisions | null | null |
Brazilian Mining Dam Collapse: 110 Dead; Search Continues for 238 Missing | The search for 238 people still missing after the Brazilian mining dam disaster continued Thursday as the death toll reached 110. Even though no one has been found alive since Saturday, the Minas Gerais Fire Department said it's not ready to stop searching for victims, according to the Associated Press. Brazilian auth... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
The Search for Aboriginal History Off the Coast of Australia | Archaeologists exploring the waters near Western Australia’s Murujuga are finding ancient sites a short dive below the sea’s surface Clare Watson, Hakai Magazine When one-third of the Australian continent was submerged, ancestors of the world’s oldest living cultures were there to see it. Land... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
2019 FINA Women's Water Polo World League | The 2019 FINA Women's Water Polo World League was the 16th edition of the annual women's international water polo tournament. It was played between November 2018 and June 2019 and open to all women's water polo national teams. After participating in a preliminary round, eight teams qualified to play in a final tourname... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Early 2014 Sabah floods |
High intensity rainfall since 13 January 2014 caused major flooding across the Interior Division of Sabah including some district in other division such as Menggatal, Penampang and Tuaran. [4] Another follow-up heavy rainfall events caused repeated flash flooding in the interior areas in early February. [5]
The floo... | Floods | null | null |
1997 Central European flood |
The 1997 Central European flood or the 1997 Oder Flood of the Oder and Morava river basins in July 1997 affected Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic, taking the lives of 114 people in the Czech Republic and Poland and causing material damages estimated at $4.5 billion (3.8 billion euros in the Czech Republic and ... | Floods | null | null |
2013 Men's World Open Squash Championship | The 2013 Men's World Team Squash Championships is the men's edition of the 2013 World Team Squash Championships, which serves as the world team championship for squash players. The event was held in Mulhouse, France, from June 9 to June 15, 2013. The tournament is organized by the World Squash Federation and the French... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Hamas announces live-fire military exercise in Gaza amid heightened tensions | Hamas on Saturday said it would hold a pre-planned military exercise in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, as Israel boosts its forces along the border ahead of a planned mass march on Passover eve. The terror organization said explosions and sounds of gunfire were expected to be heard during the drill. The group’s military win... | Military Exercise | null | null |
Happy Camp Complex Fire | The Happy Camp Complex Fire was a massive wildfire that broke out on August 12, at 1:00 AM PDT, as a result of a lightning strikes in the Klamath National Forest in Northern California. [2] The fire, which would eventually consume 134,056 acres (543 km2) of land, was the largest fire of the 2014 California wildfire sea... | Fire | null | null |
Tip-off triggers bank robbery arrest | A tip-off from the public led to the arrest of an alleged bank robber in Coffs Harbour overnight. A man armed with a knife threatened a teller at the National Australia Bank in Hickory Street, Dorrigo about 10:00am (AEDT) yesterday. He escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. About 9:00pm police received a call from... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
2014 Odisha hepatitis outbreak | The 2014 Odisha hepatitis outbreak (initially known as the 2014 Sambalpur jaundice outbreak, in relation to the predominant symptom and location) was an outbreak of mainly Hepatitis E and also Hepatitis A which began in the town of Sambalpur in Odisha, India. [2] The cause of the outbreak was suspected to be the contam... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 5484 crash | Aeroflot Flight 5484 (Russian: Рейс 5484 Аэрофлота Reys 5484 Aeroflota) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Odessa to Kazan with a stopover in Kyiv that experienced loss of control followed by breaking up in the air on 29 August 1979 over the Tambov Oblast, killing all 63 people on board. It remains the dead... | Air crash | null | null |
TAM Flight 9755 crash | On Saturday 15 September 2001, TAM Flight 9755, a Fokker 100 scheduled domestic passenger flight carrying 88 passengers and six crew, departed Recife/Guararapes–Gilberto Freyre International Airport for São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport. During the flight, the plane suffered an uncontained engine failure. Fragm... | Air crash | null | null |
Cleanaway Operations found guilty of failing to adequately train driver over 2014 freeway crash | A sewage truck company has been found guilty of failing to adequately train a driver who lost control of a truck at the base of the South Eastern Freeway, killing two people. Thomas Spiess, 57, and Jacqueline Byrne, 41, died when the truck owned by Cleanaway Operations smashed into their cars at the bottom of the free... | Road Crash | null | null |
Death toll rises to 58 in Brazil dam collapse as firefighters search through mud | Rescuers search for Brazil dam survivors Rescue workers in Brazil are searching for survivors after a dam at an iron ore mine was breached. Hundreds of people are still missing. Brumadinho – Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies ... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Drought goes on for county, state | FAIRMONT — Martin County remains in an extreme drought, along with a large portion of Minnesota, 35 percent, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. 75 percent of the state is only a step behind in what is classified as severe drought. The state entered a drought warning phase nearly a month ago in the middle of July. A... | Droughts | null | null |
This species of freshwater mussel faces extinction by 2050 |
Extinction looms for a West Australian species of freshwater mussel with researchers fearing it could be extinct within 30 years unless efforts are ramped up to save the waterways where it is found.
Small populations of the Carter's freshwater mussel can still be found in a diminishing number of waterways in the WA's ... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Official Site of The State of New Jersey | TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 262, establishing the Wealth Disparity Task Force, which was previously announced on Juneteenth of this year. This action fulfills a key commitment from his 2020 State of the State address and will work towards combatting long-standing wealth gaps based o... | Organization Established | null | null |
Dubbo water contamination raises questions about alert times, NSW Labor says |
The health of thousands of Dubbo residents has been put at risk by a delay in alerting them to the presence of E. coli bacteria in their drinking water, NSW State Opposition says.
The Dubbo Regional Council issued an alert on Monday advising residents in the city's central, northern and southern areas to boil their dr... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
2006 European Short Course Swimming Championships | The European Short Course Swimming Championships (variously referred to informally as the "Short Course Europeans" or "European 25m Championships") are a swimming meet, organized by LEN. The meet features swimmers from Europe, competing in events in a short course (25-meter) pool. The meet has traditionally been held i... | Sports Competition | null | null |
2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships | The 2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 12 October 2008. [1]
This event was first announced as the 2008 IAAF World Road Running Championships, but in November 2007, the IAAF announced that the name of the IAAF World Road Running Championships would revert to its original ... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Wombinoo Station owners fined for clearing 130 hectares of land without permission | 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 Queensland Government... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1931 | The Tampa cigar makers' strike of 1931 took place in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida in the months of November and December. Some strikers were jailed, "Lectors" were banned and there was a lockout. Following legal intervention, some workers returned to work at previous wage levels but others were not re-employed. Lectors ha... | Strike | null | null |
Desert Locust situation update - 25 March 2016 - Yemen | Current situation in Yemen © FAO
Hopper bands and adult groups forming on southern coast of Yemen
A potentially dangerous situation may be developing in southern Yemen where low numbers of immature and mature Desert Locust adults were initially seen on the coast by national survey teams on 10 March. This was the first ... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
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