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Horn of Africa: History doesn’t have to repeat itself | Six years ago the world watched in horror when almost 260,000 Somalis starved to death in the Horn of Africa. In 2011, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya experienced the worst drought in 60 years that killed pastoralists’ livestock and withered farmers’ fields. Across the region, more than ten million people were in... | Famine | null | null |
Free exchangeAmerica’s roaring recovery might carry lessons for future recessions | Editor’s note (August 6th 2021): This article has been updated for the publication of July payrolls figures A COMMITTEE OF eight prominent economists made it official on July 19th. The covid-19 recession, America’s deepest since the Depression, was also its shortest, spanning just March and April 2020. That tests the v... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
2004 Ingoldmells bus crash |
At around 17:00 BST on 11 April 2004, a double-decker bus was involved in a collision with a car and a number of pedestrians outside the Fantasy Island amusement park on Sea Lane in Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire. [1][2] The accident killed five pedestrians and injured six more. The bus, a Volvo double-decker operated by ... | Road Crash | null | null |
Eastern Michigan University fraternity agrees to settlement in sex assault cases | One of the fraternities being sued in connection to sexual assaults reported at Eastern Michigan University has agreed to a settlement.
Both the national and local chapters of Delta Tau Delta agreed to resolve the matter with a number of survivors who have come forward in cases in the U.S. District Court Eastern Distri... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
#VaxxFacts: UWC partners with WHO on a new genomic surveillance centre to monitor disease outbreaks beyond Covid-19 in Africa | The World Health Organization Africa, together with South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is launching a new Regional Centre of Excellence for Genomic Surveillance and Bioinformatics (RCEGSB) in Cape Town. The announcement of this new centre, which will help scal... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Forecasting swine disease outbreaks | Researchers want to move from monitoring disease in the US pig population to actually forecasting if and when a potential disease will occur, said Kim VanderWaal, DVM, assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Since 2017, VanderWaal and other researchers hav... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
2019 Arkansas River floods |
Between May and June 2019, an extended sequence of heavy rainfall events over the South Central United States caused historic flooding along the Arkansas River and its tributaries. Major and record river flooding occurred primarily in northeastern Oklahoma, and the elevated flows continued downstream into Arkansas wh... | Floods | null | null |
2013 Ethiopian Air Force An-12 crash | On 9 August 2013, an Antonov An-12 operated by the Ethiopian Air Force crashed while attempting to land at Aden Abdulle International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. There were six crew on board, of which four perished and two survived with injuries. [1][2]
The flight departed from Dire Dawa International Airport in Et... | Air crash | null | null |
2005 Togo protests and riots |
The 2005 Togo protests and riots were demonstrations and rioting against the results of the presidential election and Faure Gnassingbe's takeover of power. Protests began in February with protesters demanding new elections and the end of the Gnassingbe dynasty. Around 100 were killed before the elections, but after t... | Riot | null | null |
University of Lomé riots | The University of Lomé (French: Université de Lomé; abbreviated UL) is the largest university in Togo. Located in the city of Lomé, it was founded in 1970 as University of Benin (French: Université du Bénin) and changed its name to the University of Lomé in 2001.
In May 2011, the government of Togo ordered the indefi... | Riot | null | null |
Mom dies saving her children by breastfeeding them for days after shipwreck | A woman from Venezuela has been praised for making the ultimate sacrifice to save her children, after the boat they were on was wrecked and drifted at sea for four days. Mariely Chacón, 40, was on the vessel Thor with her 6-year-old son and her 2-year-old daughter, for a pleasure cruise from Higuerote to Tortuga Island... | Shipwreck | null | null |
2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis |
The Icelandic financial crisis was a major economic and political event in Iceland that involved the default of all three of the country's major privately owned commercial banks in late 2008, following their difficulties in refinancing their short-term debt and a run on deposits in the Netherlands and the United King... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Coronavirus community transmissions in Victoria grow as Fitzroy restaurant fined | 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 Fitzroy restaurant will... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Hartford circus fire |
The Hartford circus fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in United States history. [1] The fire occurred during an afternoon performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that was attended by 6,000 to 8,000 people. The fire killed 167 peopl... | Fire | null | null |
Australia's Kaylee McKeown breaks the Olympic record to win 100m backstroke gold in Tokyo | Rising Australian star Kaylee McKeown is now an Olympic champion, blitzing home to win the 100m backstroke final with an Olympic record time.
Fellow Aussie Emily Seebohm finished fifth, nearly a second behind 20-year-old McKeown, whose time of 57.47 seconds was only 0.02 seconds behind the world record time she set in ... | Break historical records | null | null |
Percy Pilcher crash | Percy Sinclair Pilcher (16 January 1867 – 2 October 1899) was a British inventor and pioneer aviator who was his country's foremost experimenter in unpowered flight near the end of the nineteenth century. After corresponding with Otto Lilienthal, Pilcher had considerable success with developing hang gliders. in 1895 he... | Air crash | null | null |
1913 Ais Gill rail accident |
The Ais Gill rail accident occurred on the Settle–Carlisle line in the north of England on 2 September 1913. The proximate cause of the crash was a signal passed at danger, but there were many contributing factors. The two trains involved were both passenger trains, which had left Carlisle railway station in the earl... | Train collisions | null | null |
Winter of Discontent |
The Winter of Discontent took place during 1978–79 in the United Kingdom. It was characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public, sector trade unions demanding pay rises greater than the limits Prime Minister James Callaghan and his Labour Party government had been imposing, against Trades Union Cong... | Strike | null | null |
1940 Cochinchina uprising | Cochinchina uprising (Nam Kỳ khởi nghĩa) was an armed uprising against the French and Japanese by the South Vietnamese (at that time known as Cochinchina) in 1940, led by the Indochinese Communist Party. In June 1940, France was invaded and occupied by Nazi troops. Taking this opportunity, in September of that year, J... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Two men arrested for bank robbery in Hanoi | MPS - The Hanoi police, in coordination with relevant units and agencies under the Ministry of Public Security, arrested two suspects of a robbery at a bank branch in Dong Da district, Hanoi on July 29, just 36 hours after the incident. Reportedly, at around 10:00 a.m. on July 27, two men with face masks came to the N... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
2003 California wildfires | The 2003 California wildfires were a series of wildfires that were active in the state of California during the year 2003. In dry January 2003 has 31 days straight with no rain in Southern California, and wet mid February 2003 arrives in California. In total, there were 9,116 fires[2] that burned 1,020,460 acres (4,129... | Fire | null | null |
Stunning pictures as Northern Lights become visible over Norfolk | The northern lights over Sheringham last night. People in Norfolk were treated to one of the best views of the Northern Lights in the country when they became visible. A solar flare entered the Earth's atmosphere on Thursday night, making the sparkling lights - also known as Aurora Borealis - visible over the UK, as t... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
2009 Messina floods and mudslides |
The 2009 Messina floods and mudslides occurred in Sicily on the night of 1–2 October, mainly along the Ionian coast in the Province of Messina. They also affected other parts of northeastern Sicily and killed a total of at least 31 people,[1] some of whom were swept out to sea. More than 400 people were left homeless... | Floods | null | null |
Archaeologists excavate traces of 10,000-year-old Mesolithic settlements | The settlements date from around 10,000 years ago during the early stage of the Butovo culture, described as communities of Mesolithic hunter‐gatherers that mainly occupied the upper Volga catchment of the forest zone of western Russia. During this period, glaciers covering most of Eurasia had already retreated, and th... | New archeological discoveries | null | null |
Jersey Police sign agreement with JFSC | The Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) and the States of Jersey Police have signed an agreement to share information with each other.
The memorandum of understanding aims to make the co-operation between the two more formal.
It will mean the JFSC tells the police about significant financial crimes that may hav... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Oregon bill might protect structures from tsunami, but residents’ safety is paper thin | Back when Oregon’s positive cases of COVID-19 could still be counted on two hands, Jay Wilson, the former chair of Oregon’s Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission (the earthquake commission), sat in a Sellwood pub as he described to Street Roots a haunting premonition of a different disaster to come. “After returnin... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Ethiopia suffers a humanitarian crisis | This report has benefited from the research, analysis and review of a number of individuals, most of whom preferred to remain anonymous. For that reason, we are attributing authorship solely to the World Peace Foundation. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY "They have destroyed Tigray, literally." Mulugeta Gebrehiwot speaking by phone f... | Famine | null | null |
2008 Guam B-52 crash | The 2008 Guam B-52 crash was a fatal crash of a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H Stratofortress on 21 July 2008. The aircraft, operating out of Andersen Air Force Base, crashed into the Pacific Ocean during a training flight approximately 30 nautical miles (56 km) northwest of Apra Harbor, Guam. The training flight... | Air crash | null | null |
Area of mine where Michael Welsh died while working had been 'unstable' for several shifts, coroner finds | Area of mine where Michael Welsh died while working had been 'unstable' for several shifts, coroner finds Follow our live coverage for the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic Michael "Digger" Welsh, a much-loved member of the tight-knit Queenstown community on Tasmania's west coast, was drinking coffee and chatting... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
Ethiopia to expel UN officials amid fears of Tigray famine | Ethiopia is expelling seven senior United Nations officials, just days after the UN's aid chief warned the war-torn northern Tigray region was descending into famine due to the government's blockade of aid deliveries. Among those ordered out of the country are officials from the UN's Children Fund (UNICEF) and UN Offic... | Famine | null | null |
Pakistan declares national emergency over locust swarms | Prime Minister Imran Khan declared the emergency to protect crops and help farmers. The Pakistani government said it was the worst locust infestation in more than two decades. Pakistan's government declared a national emergency on Saturday in response to swarms of desert locusts in the eastern part of the country. Pri... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Donald Trump's Pledge to Withdraw U.S. From TPP Opens the Door for China | Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally in the Rodeo Arena at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on Oct. 29, 2016, in Golden, Colo. Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images By Charlie Campbell / Beijing November 22, 2016 3:38 AM EST As a former reality-TV star who sent more than 7,000 tweets over his campaign, it was somewhat fitti... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Victoria’s secret agreement with China faces federal government scrutiny | The Commonwealth will probe a third deal between the Andrews government and China to advance public-private partnerships for infrastructure projects, signed separately to Victoria’s controversial Belt and Road deal.
The state government has been forced to hand over details of the memorandum of understanding – which has... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
2011 Victoria floods |
High intensity rainfall between 12–14 January 2011 caused major flooding across much of the western and central parts of the Australian state of Victoria. Several follow-up heavy rainfall events including Tropical Low Yasi caused repeated flash flooding in affected areas in early February in many of the communities a... | Floods | null | null |
World powers have reached a deal with Iran on limiting Iranian nuclear activity in return for the lifting of international economic sanctions | World powers have reached a deal with Iran on limiting Iranian nuclear activity in return for the lifting of international economic sanctions.
US President Barack Obama said that with the deal, "every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off" for Iran.
And President Hassan Rouhani said the "historic" deal opened a "new c... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
Police call for witnesses to double fatality on Bussell Highway | Police are urging anyone who may have witnessed a horrific crash that killed two people on Western Australia's Bussell Highway on the weekend to come forward. The accident occurred near Capel at about 1:00pm on Sunday afternoon when a grey Skoda Yeti driving north collided head on with a Toyota Land Cruiser. The 36-yea... | Road Crash | null | null |
Stony Creek in Melbourne's west running red as authorities investigate pollution |
Victoria's environmental watchdog is investigating a discharge that has turned Stony Creek in Melbourne's west bright red, a year after a chemical fire contaminated the water.
Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) said it had received multiple reports about a "red-coloured discharge" in the creek near St Leo... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
One killed, two injured in collapse at Knox County mine | by: Caleb Wethington Posted: Jul 13, 2021 / 01:53 PM EDT Updated: Jul 14, 2021 / 05:43 AM EDT by: Caleb Wethington Posted: Jul 13, 2021 / 01:53 PM EDT Updated: Jul 14, 2021 / 05:43 AM EDT KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — One miner was killed and two other miners were injured in a collapse at a mine in Knox Cou... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
U.S. to Withdraw From UNESCO. Here's What That Means. | Officials announced that the country will leave the international cultural organization in 2018, citing concerns over "anti-Israel bias." Top 5: New World Heritage Sites to Add to Your Travel List The United States will pull out of UNESCO, the international scientific and cultural heritage organization, at the end of 2... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
2002 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships | The 2002 IIHF World U20 Championship, commonly referred as the 2002 World Junior Hockey Championships (2002 WJHC), was the 26th edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. The tournament was held in Pardubice and Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, from December 25, 2001 – January 4, 2002. Russia won the gold meda... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Río Blanco strike | The Río Blanco strike of January 7 and 8, 1907 was a workers' riot related to a textile strike, near Orizaba in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Following a two-week railroad strike in the summer of 1906, further labor unrest developed among cotton and textile workers in the neighboring states of Tlaxcala and Puebla. Cen... | Strike | null | null |
2011 Rome demonstration | On 15 October 2011 about 200,000 people[1] gathered in Rome, Italy to protest against economic inequality and the influence of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund on politics and also against the government of Silvio Berlusconi. [citation needed] The protests began in so... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Locust outbreaks in the Horn of Africa are linked to the ... | Locust outbreaks in the Horn of Africa are linked to the changing climate
As rainfall increases, plagues expected to rise in frequency
Desert locust outbreaks can devastate crops quickly and across a wide area. David Nunn, Flickr
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Since 2018, swarms of desert locusts have devoured vital crops and vegetation... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Gaisal train disaster |
The Gaisal train disaster occurred on 2 August 1999,[1] when two trains , the Avadh Assam Express and the Brahmaputra Mail, carrying approximately 2,500 people collided at the remote station of Gaisal, Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal, approximately 19 kilometers from Kishanganj Station. The crash involved such high speed... | Train collisions | null | null |
Former president Mary Robinson has joined former US president Jimmy Carter in North Korea on a mission | Former president Mary Robinson has joined former US president Jimmy Carter in North Korea on a mission to ease inter-Korean tensions.
They will also assess food shortages and try to revive the stalled nuclear disarmament talks.
The delegation, known as The Elders, also includes former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
1946 Varto–Hınıs earthquake | The 1946 Varto–Hınıs earthquake occurred at 05:12:46 local time on 31 May. The earthquake had an estimated moment magnitude of 5.9 and a maximum felt intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale, causing between 800 and 1300 casualties. | Earthquakes | null | null |
COVID School Closures Could Loom Large in Newsom Recall | As summer vacation came to a close earlier this month, Megan Bacigalupi was ecstatic about sending her kids back to their public schools in Oakland. “Myself, my husband, and, I think, my kids especially are just thrilled to be back with all of their friends in a full classroom and as close to normal as I think they hav... | Organization Closed | null | null |
Three reasons behind Trump ditching Iran deal | President Donald Trump wasn't always so dead against the Iran deal and it's not a big issue for voters, so why is he pulling out now?
It was a move that had been telegraphed for months, despite last-ditch attempts by US allies and domestic backers of the agreement to convince the president to stick with the status quo.... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Nepal Airlines Flight 183 crash | Wreckage of the aircraft
On February 16, 2014, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed on Nepal Airlines Flight 183 . The three crew members and all 15 passengers were killed in the accident. The plane of the Nepalese airline Nepal Airlines , which had been in service since 1971, had had more than 43,900 fligh... | Air crash | null | null |
Celebrity weddings of 2021: All the stars who got married this year | December 9, 2021 | 8:20am | Updated After wedding after wedding got postponed in 2020 because of the pandemic, things started to pick up a bit for celebrity nuptials in 2021 as restrictions lifted, gathering sizes increased and the COVID-19 vaccine became available. Here are all the stars — from Hollywood power players... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Event schedule announced for 2021 Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree after twice cancellation | Organizers of the annual Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree recently announced the schedule for the upcoming 2021 event, which is being held on October 29 and October 30 on Ocracoke Island. The Jamboree commemorates the last days of Blackbeard the pirate, who was killed off Ocracoke on Nov. 22, 1718. After being canceled in ... | Organization Closed | null | null |
One sent to hospital after explosion at building with propane, officials say | . seek to previous 12… 6 seek to 10%, 20% … 60% An explosion at an oxygen plant caused a fire on Friday afternoon HICKORY, NC (FOX Carolina) – One person was sent to the hospital after an explosion at a propane and gas services building in Hickory, NC, according to the Hickory Fire Department.
The explosion... | Gas explosion | null | null |
2017 Finsbury Park attack |
The 2017 Finsbury Park attack was a terror-attack in Finsbury Park, London, England, on 19 June 2017. A van was driven into pedestrians in Finsbury Park, London, by Darren Osborne, causing one death and injuring at least nine people. This occurred near the Muslim Welfare House, 100 yards (90 m) from Finsbury Park Mos... | Road Crash | null | null |
Tony Blair's 1997 Famine message was ghost-written by aides as he couldn't be contacted | TONY BLAIR’S HEADLINE-GRABBING admission of the British government’s culpability over the Famine was hastily ghost-written by aides, previously classified documents reveal. The documents, released by the National Archives in the UK, reveal Blair’s then-Private Secretary John Holmes told him that he approved the... | Famine | null | null |
Authorities identify 2 workers killed in Collin County natural gas explosion | Authorities said the scene of the explosion was safe but asked people to avoid the area.(KXAS-TV (NBC5))
5:57 PM on Jun 28, 2021 CDT — Updated at 8:15 PM on Jun 29, 2021 CDT
Updated at 11:40 a.m. June 29: Revised to include victims’ names.
Authorities have identified the two workers who were killed in a natural gas exp... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Students should be allowed to buy cars with financial aid | As lawmakers sharpen their attention on infrastructure, much of the conversation focuses on reducing reliance on cars. But what about people with no choice? Today, 99 percent of community college students commute to campus — and a sizable number of community colleges aren’t accessible by public transportation . The Bi... | Financial Aid | null | null |
Morocco Among Participants in International Israeli Military Exercise | Morocco joined France, Greece, Jordan, Italy, Israel, the UK, and the US in the Israeli Military Exercise held between July 5-8. Rabat - The landing of a Moroccan military aircraft in the Hatzor airbase ahead of an Israeli military exercise in early July raised a lot of speculation in both Moroccan and Israeli media. ... | Military Exercise | null | null |
2010 Belarusian protests | Alexander Lukashenko
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Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 19 December 2010. [1] The election was originally planned for the beginning of 2011. However, the final date was set during an extraordinary session of the National Assembly of Belarus on September 14, 201... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
2001 Quebec uprising | The 2001 Quebec uprising was a mass uprising, marked by riots and popular civil protests, against the 3rd Summit of the Americas from 21 to 22 April in Quebec City. Mass protests was met with tear gas and grenades was thrown by police, who claimed demonstrators were storming buildings. Protests ceased on 22 April. [1]
... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Carbon monoxide poisoning a big concern ahead of Texas winter storm | Updated: 10:48 AM CST February 11, 2021
BEAUMONT, Texas — A winter storm is coming, and officials across Texas are preparing for the impacts from heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain from DFW to Beaumont.
The storm could mean widespread power outages and officials are issuing a warning about an increase in carbon monoxi... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
2009 Riga riot | 2009 Riga riot was a civil unrest in Riga, Latvia on January 13, 2009. The opposition and trade unions organized a rally requesting dissolution of the parliament. [1] The rally gathered some 10–20 thousand people. The rally was because of the recent economic crisis that struck Latvia in 2009 and made more than almost 7... | Riot | null | null |
Securitas depot robbery |
The Securitas depot robbery was a large heist in Tonbridge, Kent, England. It began with a kidnapping on the evening of 21 February 2006 18:30 GMT and ended in the early hours of 22 February, when the criminals left the depot with over £53 million cash. It was the UK's largest cash robbery and the gang left behind an... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Lupeni Strike of 1929 | The Lupeni strike of 1929 took place on 5 and 6 August 1929 in the mining town of Lupeni, in the Jiu Valley of Transylvania, Romania. Near the end of 1928, miners' leaders in the Jiu Valley had begun agitating for an extension of their collective work contract. Their demands included (in conformity with new legislation... | Strike | null | null |
Havørn Accident crash | The Havørn Accident (Norwegian: Havørn-ulykken) was a controlled flight into terrain of a Junkers Ju 52 aircraft into the mountain Lihesten in Hyllestad, Norway on 16 June 1936 at 07:00. The aircraft, operated by Norwegian Air Lines, was en route from Bergen to Tromsø. The pilots were unaware that they were flying a pa... | Air crash | null | null |
Singapore plans global maritime decarbonisation centre | Posted on April 22, 2021 Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority plans to set up a global maritime decarbonisation centre in the country and launch a maritime decarbonisation blueprint to 2050, outlining long-term strategies for the sector. The port of Singapore is t... | Organization Established | null | null |
The US Withdrawal From the Open Skies Treaty | The almost certain collapse of the Open Skies Treaty following United States’ decision to withdraw and inevitable Russian reaction is yet another example of the gradual dismantling of the network of arms control and confidence-building regimes created after the end of the Cold War. What led to this point and what might... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
PFAS chemicals: Katherine residents want answers on contamination in water supply, pool |
The Northern Territory town of Katherine is contaminated.
Its bores are contaminated, its drinking water is contaminated, even its local pool is contaminated.
"Who knows how high these [chemical] levels have been for my kids' whole lives, and the majority of my life?" Merlyn Smith, a mother of two, said.
It is per-and... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
EU Plans to Ease Capital Rules for Insurers to Provide €120 Billion Economic Boost | The European Union proposed changing the bloc’s capital rules for insurers on Wednesday to release 120 billion euros ($141 billion) for repairing an economy hit by COVID and to meet climate goals without eroding policyholder protection. Britain, which is home to the world’s biggest commercial insurance market and left ... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Britannia Airways Flight 226A crash | Britannia Airways Flight BY226A was an international charter flight from Cardiff, Wales, UK, which crashed on landing at Girona Airport, Spain, on 14 September 1999 and broke apart. Of the 236 passengers and nine crew on board, two were seriously injured and 41 sustained minor injuries. One of the passengers who had ap... | Air crash | null | null |
Emirates Flight 521 crash | Emirates Flight 521 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Thiruvananthapuram, India, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates,[2] operated by Emirates using a Boeing 777-300. [3] On 3 August 2016, the aircraft carrying 282 passengers and 18 crew[4][5] crashed while landing at Dubai International Airport. [6][7][8][... | Air crash | null | null |
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1982 | The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1982 took place 19–28 February 1982 in Oslo, Norway at the Holmenkollen ski arena. This was Oslo's record-tying fourth time hosting the event after previously doing so in 1930, the 1952 Winter Olympics, and 1966. The Nordic combined 3 × 10 km team event and the ski jumping team la... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Most of Alberta has high chance of seeing northern lights this weekend | Most of Alberta could be in for a spectacular showing of the northern lights this weekend as a solar storm makes its way towards Earth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a geomagnetic storm watch for Saturday evening to early Sunday morning. Andy Kale, a research associate in the departm... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
2006 Kolkata leather factory fire |
The 2006 Kolkata leather factory fire was a deadly industrial fire that occurred in West Bengal, India, on 22 November 2006. The fire broke out in a leather bag factory located in the Tannix International, Topsia, in the South 24 Parganas district in Greater Kolkata area, and generated a wave of criticism of the poor... | Fire | null | null |
Seattle Mardi Gras riot | The Seattle Mardi Gras riot occurred on February 27, 2001, when disturbances broke out in the Pioneer Square neighborhood during Mardi Gras celebrations in Seattle, Washington. There were numerous random attacks on revelers over a period of about three and a half hours. There were reports of widespread brawling, vandal... | Riot | null | null |
Ryan Crouser defends shot put gold with three Olympic records | TOKYO – Arkansas volunteer assistant Ryan Crouser successfully defended his Olympic gold medal with a stellar performance that was capped with an Olympic record throw of 76 feet, 5 ½ inches (23.30), just two and three-quarters of an inch shy of the world record he set in June.
For the first time in Olympic history in a... | Break historical records | null | null |
1982 European Karate Championships | The European Karate Championships are organised by the European Karate Federation each year. [1]
Events from 1966 to 1996 were organized by the European Karate Union. In 1961, Jacques Delcourt was appointed President of French Karate, which was at that stage, an associated member of the Judo Federation. In 1963, he in... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Donald Trump signs executive order withdrawing US from Trans-Pacific Partnership | US President Donald Trump has signed executive orders withdrawing America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal and stopping the federal government from hiring any more workers. In an Oval Office ceremony, Mr Trump delivered on his campaign promise to formally withdraw from the TPP, which was negotiated b... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Bathurst artist Rachel Ellis wins Cowra Regional Art Gallery Calleen Art Award | BOLD COLOURS: Rachel Ellis has won the 2021 Calleen Art Award with her painting Claret Ash, Bathurst. Photo: SUPPLIED BATHURST'S Rachel Ellis is the winner of the Cowra Regional Art Gallery Calleen Art Award 2021. Rachel's painting Claret Ash, Bathurst 2021 was selected and announced by the award judge Wayne Tunnicliff... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
SASB and IIRC complete merger to form Value Reporting Foundation | The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and the International Integrated Reporting Council finalized their merger Wednesday to form the Value Reporting Foundation and unite their environmental, social and governance reporting frameworks. They plan to continue to develop tools to help organizations with ESG report... | Organization Merge | null | null |
Notorious PNG bank robber jailed | Papua New Guinea's most notorious criminal has been sentenced to 30 years in jail over one of the country's biggest bank robberies. In 2008, William Kapris and his accomplices kidnapped the manager of Bank South Pacific's Madang branch and held his family hostage. Then, dressed as policemen, they went to the bank and s... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
YouTube fined $250 million for collecting kids' data without parents' consent | Google's video site YouTube has been fined $US170 million ($250 million) to settle allegations it collected children's personal data without their parents' consent.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fined Google $US136 million ($200 million) and the company will pay an additional $US34 million ($50 million) to New ... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis | Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, Food insecurity and malnutrition are the key factors behind the number of people in need. 16.2 million people will go hungry this year (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 3 or higher), including 5 million are just one step away from being decla... | Famine | null | null |
Sydney McLaughlin Breaks Her Own World Record in 400m Hurdles to Win Olympic Gold | Coming off the final hurdle, Sydney McLaughlin charged past reigning Olympic champion and fellow American Dalilah Muhammad to win gold in the women’s 400-meter hurdles in 51.46 and lowered her own world record by .44 seconds.
"I saw Dalilah ahead of me with one to go," McLaughlin said after the race. "I just thought 'R... | Break historical records | null | null |
Desert Locusts Plague West Africa - NPR | Desert Locusts Plague West Africa
Swarms of desert locusts many miles long descended on West Africa this summer and fall -- the worst invasion of these voracious pests in more than 15 years. NPR's Richard Harris ventured to Senegal to find the locusts, and talk to farmers who have suffered the consequences of this ... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Doug Ford Says He's "Proud" Of Ditching Ontario's Green Energy Deals | In a new effort to combat how much Ontarians spend on resources, Doug Ford's green energy decision has seen the province cut ties with the renewable sector. Ford said on Thursday, November 21 that he's "proud" of the move, which ends hundred of deals. Ford's government acknowledges that this could potentially cost taxp... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Darling Krishna-Milana Nagraj Wedding: Sandalwood Celebrity Couple Ties the Knot [Marriage Photos] | Sandalwood celebrity couple Darling Krishna and Milana Nagaraj have tied the knot on Sunday, 14 February. The wedding had the presence of their family members, well-wishers and relatives. The wedding was held at a resort on the outskirts of Bengaluru on Sunday, 14 February. A special wedding mantapa was erected for the... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
“He Just Didn’t Know”: Texas Man Dies of Possible Carbon Monoxide Poisoning | 0 TEXAS – While Texas temperatures are back to near normal after the recent historic storm, life for some has changed drastically, including those who lost loved ones to weather-related causes of death such as hypothermia, carbon monoxide poisoning, and car accidents.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office is inve... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Search for survivors continues as death toll from Brazil dam collapse hits 58 | Civil firefighter Leoncio Valverdes rescues caged birds and removes them from the area two days after a dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. Brazilian officials on Sunday suspended the search for potential survivors of a dam collapse that has killed at least 40 people amid fears that another nearb... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
2002 Mindanao earthquake | The 2002 Mindanao earthquake struck the Philippines at 05:16 Philippine Standard Time on March 6 (21:16 Coordinated Universal Time on March 5). The world's sixth most powerful earthquake of the year, it registered a magnitude of 7.5 and was a megathrust earthquake. It originated near the Cotabato Trench, a zone of defo... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Road crashes claim four lives in 'horrific period' as police plead with SA drivers to take care | Road crashes claim four lives in 'horrific period' as police plead with SA drivers to take care Crashes on South Australia's roads have claimed four lives in less than 24 hours, prompting police to plead with drivers to slow down as this year's death toll continues to surge. The fatalities include an elderly pedestrian... | Road Crash | null | null |
His 7yo daughter went missing after the 2011 tsunami. So Norio spent years digging through rubble to find her | His 7yo daughter went missing after the 2011 tsunami. So Norio spent years digging through rubble to find her Long after rescue teams gave up searching for survivors from the March 2011 tsunami, farmer Norio Kimura continued to painstakingly dig for his seven-year-old daughter, Yuna. On this day 10 years ago he lost h... | Tsunamis | null | null |
Canada's Damian Warner wins gold in decathlon, sets Olympic record | The 31-year-old from London, Ont., smashed the Canadian and Olympic record and became the fourth man in history to break the elusive 9,000-point barrier at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday.
Warner capped off the gruelling 10-discipline event with a fifth-place finish in the 1,500 metres - an event he jokingly said he l... | Break historical records | null | null |
Winners of 2021 Kerala State Film Awards declared, find full list here | ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ won the Best Film award, with its writer-director Jeo Baby being crowned Best Screenwriter. Jayasurya and Anna Ben won Best Actor and Best Actress respectively. (From left) Stills from Vellam, Kappela and The Great Indian Kitchen. KOCHI: The results of the 51st Kerala State Film Awards were... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Nailsea school closed by flooding to reopen by end of month | Pupils at Ravenswood in Nailsea, Somerset, were sent home a day after the term started when the deluge poured into classrooms and damaged the electrics. Another downpour days later causing further damage. The council said pupils, who have unique and complex needs, should be able to return on September 29. Councillor ... | Organization Closed | null | null |
OC reports lowest COVID hospitalizations since the end of July | SANTA ANA (CNS) — Orange County's COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped again while 13 more deaths were recorded, according to figures released Friday by the Orange County Health Care Agency. The number of coronavirus patients in county hospitals dropped from 313 Thursday to 308 Friday, with the number of patients in inten... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Venezuelan general strike of 2002–03 | The Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003, also known as the oil strike or oil lockout, was an attempt by the Venezuelan opposition to President Hugo Chávez to force a new presidential election. It took place from December 2002 to February 2003, when it faded. The government fired over 18,000 PDVSA employees for "der... | Strike | null | null |
Tokyo Olympics: India’s 4x400m relay team breaks Asian record but fails to qualify for final | India’s digital transactions have skyrocketed 19 times in the last seven years: Prime Minister Modi The quartets of Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Tom Noah Nirmal, Rajiv Arokia and Amoj Jacob ran for 3 minutes and 25 seconds, finishing 4th in the second heat. India missed the final of eight teams. Because they finished in 9th ... | Break historical records | null | null |
Bill Clinton says he is ‘glad to be home’ after hospital admission | Former US president releases video thanking staff at California hospital where he was treated for infection Bill Clinton has released a video saying he is on the road to recovery after being hospitalised in southern California for six days to treat an infection unrelated to Covid-19. Clinton, 75, who arrived home in N... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
1949 MacRobertson Miller Aviation DC-3 crash | On 2 July 1949 a Douglas DC-3 aircraft departed from Perth, Western Australia for a night flight of 441 nautical miles (817 km) to Carnarvon. The aircraft climbed to a height of about 500 feet (150 m) and then spiralled almost vertically to the ground, killing all 18 people on board. It crashed about a mile north of Pe... | Air crash | null | null |
Cayce, South Carolina train collision |
On February 4, 2018, the southbound Amtrak Silver Star No. 91 passenger train from New York City to Miami collided with a stationary CSX Transportation freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, just south of the state's capital of Columbia on CSX's Columbia Subdivision. Two Amtrak crew members were killed and 116 other... | Train collisions | null | null |
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