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2009 Alaska floods | The 2009 Alaska floods were a series of natural disasters taking place in the United States state of Alaska during April and May 2009. The floods were a result of heavier-than-normal winter snowfall and above-average spring temperatures that resulted in rapid melting of the winter snowfall. The resulting high water lev... | Floods | null | null |
Martinair Flight 495 crash | Martinair Flight 495 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operated by Dutch airline Martinair, that crash-landed in severe weather conditions at Faro Airport, Portugal on 21 December 1992. The aircraft carried 13 crew members and 327 passengers, mainly holidaymakers from the Netherlands. 54 passengers and 2 crew members died.... | Air crash | null | null |
Adelaide Crows fined $50,000 for breaching AFL coronavirus protocols | 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 Adelaide Crows have b... | Organization Fine | null | null |
Jill Biden rubs shoulders with royalty on British visit | CARBIS BAY, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Jill Biden visited a school in Cornwall with Kate, Duchess of Cambridge on Friday, as senior members of Britain’s royal family joined world leaders for series of events around the G7 summit on Friday.
Queen Elizabeth, her son Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, and the h... | Diplomatic Visit | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 4 crash | Aeroflot Flight 4 (Russian: Рейс 4 Аэрофлота Reys 4 Aeroflota) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Khabarovsk to Moscow with a stopover in Irkutsk that crashed on 15 August 1958, killing all 64 passengers and crew aboard the aircraft. It was the first fatal accident involving a Tupolev Tu-104. [1]
The aircr... | Air crash | null | null |
2002 United States airtanker crashes crash | In 2002, two large airtankers – a Lockheed C-130 Hercules and a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer – crashed about a month apart while performing aerial firefighting operations. These crashes prompted a review of the maintenance and use of the entire U.S. large airtanker fleet. Ultimately, the whole fleet (33 aircraft in al... | Air crash | null | null |
2003–2005 Africa locust infestation - Wikipedia | 2003–2005 Africa locust infestation
In 2004, West and North Africa experienced their largest infestation of desert locusts in more than 15 years. A number of countries in the fertile northern regions of Africa were affected.
The increase in Desert Locust breeding activity was noted in the United Nations Food and Agr... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash | On January 7, 1971, a Boeing B-52C Stratofortress (serial 54-26660) of Strategic Air Command crashed into northern Lake Michigan at the mouth of Little Traverse Bay near Charlevoix, Michigan, while on a low-level training flight. All nine crew members aboard were lost. No remains of the crewmen were recovered. Parts o... | Air crash | null | null |
'Red tide' blamed as whale shark, turtles, dolphins wash up dead on Florida beaches |
Dolphins, manatees and even a whale shark have washed up dead on the Gulf of Mexico beaches because of what locals call the Florida "red tide".
Red tide is the name given to the blooms of a species of microorganisms that have a distinct red colour.
The bloom is an annual event in the waters around Florida and it usual... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
The battle raged all day as US-backed Iraqi army units fought the previously unidentified group in orchards on the northern outskirts of Najaf. | The battle raged all day as US-backed Iraqi army units fought the previously unidentified group in orchards on the northern outskirts of Najaf.
Three Iraqi soldiers had reportedly died in the battle and 21 were injured.
The US military said two of its troops died when their helicopter was shot down, but did not confirm... | Armed Conflict | null | null |
1981 Moss Side riot |
In July 1981, the inner-city district of Moss Side in Manchester, England, was the scene for mass rioting. By that time, the area had been a key settlement for migrants from the Caribbean for over thirty years. The rioting at Moss Side started at the local police station and later moved into the surrounding streets o... | Riot | null | null |
Daily figure of Covid-19 infections | Hospital Selayang, Selangor. The 334 deaths brought the country’ total Covid-19 related fatalities to 24,078 so far. (Photo by Zahid Izzani Mohd Said/The Edge) KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 22): Malaysia’s total number of Covid-19 related deaths topped 24,000 yesterday (Sept 21) after the nation reported another 334 fatalities, a... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Guinea’s Coup d’Etat Leader Anointed as President | October 5, 2021 Topic: Guinea Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: Guinea Coup D'Etat Regime Transition Alpha Conde Mamady Doumbouya Guinea’s Coup d’Etat Leader Anointed as President The September 5 coup in Guinea has been widely condemned abroad and has led to the country’s increasing international isolation. by Trevor Filse... | Regime Change | null | null |
Great Bakersfield Fire of 1889 | The Great Bakersfield Fire of 1889 was a conflagration in Bakersfield, California. The fire would burn for three hours and destroyed most of town (later reincorporated as a city). In total, 196 buildings were destroyed, one man was killed and 1,500 people were homeless. The fire marked the transition of Bakersfield fro... | Fire | null | null |
1978 British Army Gazelle downing crash |
On 17 February 1978, a British Army Gazelle helicopter, serial number XX404, went down near Jonesborough, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, after being fired at by a Provisional IRA unit from the South Armagh Brigade. The IRA unit was involved at the time in a gun battle with a Green Jackets observation post deploye... | Air crash | null | null |
Reba McEntire reacts to Kelly Clarkson's divorce from her former stepson Brandon Blackstock: 'I love them both' | Reba McEntire isn't taking sides in Kelly Clarkson's divorce against talent manager Brandon Blackstock. McEntire was married to Blackstock's father, Narvel Blackstock, from 1989 to 2015, briefly making her Clarkson's stepmother-in-law.
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Reba McEntire isn't taking sides in Kel... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Two dead, 2 critical after high levels of carbon monoxide found inside Nashville home | Police said two people have died and two others were hospitalized after high levels of carbon monoxide were found inside a Nashville home.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Police said two people have died and two others were hospitalized after high levels... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Richmond, Indiana explosion |
The Richmond, Indiana, explosion was a double explosion which occurred at 1:47 PM EST on Saturday, April 6, 1968, in downtown Richmond, Indiana, United States. The explosions killed 41 people and injured more than 150. The primary explosion was due to natural gas leaking from one or more faulty transmission lines und... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Guatemalan mudslides push storm Eta's death toll near 150 | GUATEMALA CITY/TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The death toll from torrential downpours unleashed by storm Eta leapt on Friday as Guatemalan soldiers reached a mountain village where around 100 people were killed by a landslide, adding to dozens of other dead in Central America and Mexico. Many of those who lost their lives in... | Mudslides | null | null |
2015 South African xenophobic riots |
On 11 April 2015, several South Africans attacked foreigners in a xenophobic attack in Durban, South Africa, which extended to some parts of Johannesburg. Several people, both foreign and South African alike, were killed with some of the killings captured on camera. In South Africa, there is a sentiment prevalent amo... | Riot | null | null |
Op-ed: Weighing the options to continue or end expanded unemployment benefits | The response to Covid-19 has marked a historic expansion in the size and coverage of government support for people experiencing unemployment. As we near the end of expanded federal unemployment insurance benefits, state governors now face a choice of whether to continue them. To that point, the Biden administration urg... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
ASM to propose COVID-19 Student Relief Fund for direct student aid | University of Wisconsin student leaders announced plans Friday to create a COVID-19 Student Relief Fund dedicated to aiding students financially struggling amid the pandemic. The Associated Students of Madison will propose legislation Jan. 26 to sponsor the creation of a COVID-19 Student Relief Fund, according to a pre... | Financial Aid | null | null |
1933 Palestine riots |
General Arthur Grenfell WauchopeHigh Commissioner and Commander-in-chief(1932–1938) Sir Harold MacMichaelHigh Commissioner(1938–1944) Lt.-General John DillGOC (1936–37) Lt.-General Archibald WavellGOC (1937–38) Lt.-General Robert HainingGOC (1938–39) Major-General Bernard MontgomeryCommander, 8th Infantry Div., 1... | Riot | null | null |
19 August 2018 Lombok earthquake |
On 19 August 2018 a major earthquake struck with high intensity on the northeast corner of Lombok (Sambelia and Labuhan Lombok settlements) and northwest Sumbawa (Poto Tano settlement) at 22:56 local time, a few km to the east of the series of quakes that had been rocking the area for the past 3 weeks. It was measured... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 2 crash | Aeroflot Flight 2 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated by Aeroflot from Vitim Airport in the Sakha Republic to Irkutsk International Airport near Irkutsk. On 20 July 1977, the Avia 14 operating this flight crashed into trees outside the airport shortly after takeoff. Thirty-three passengers and all six c... | Air crash | null | null |
Indonesia's Semeru volcano erupts spewing hot clouds days after deadly earthquake | Indonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash and smoke more than 5 kilometres into the sky above Java, just days after 49 people were killed in a deadly earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island. No evacuation orders have been issued so far on Java, the country's most densely populated island, but the National Dis... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Mariana Trench submarine dive finds manmade rubbish at sea's deepest point |
On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a United States explorer saw something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world: rubbish.
Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer and Texas-based investor, said he made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 10,928 metres ... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Rescuers search deep mud for hundreds missing after Brazil waste dam collapse | Brazilian firefighters and Israeli rescue workers moved carefully Monday over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies, four days after a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighbourhoods with iron ore waste. The confirmed death toll rose to 65, with ... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
1948 Litang earthquake | The 1948 Litang earthquake (1948年理塘地震) occurred on May 28, 1948 at 07:11 UTC. It was located near Litang, China. Now situated in the Sichuan Province, Litang County was then called Lihua (or Lihwa) (理化) County and belonged to the defunct Xikang (or Sikang) Province. The earthquake had a magnitude of Mw 7.2,[1] or Ms 7.... | Earthquakes | null | null |
Northwest Airlink Flight 2268 crash | Northwest Airlink Flight 2268 was a commuter flight between Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan, just outside Detroit. The flight was operated by Fischer Brothers Aviation, doing business as Northwest Airlink, and was operated by... | Air crash | null | null |
Chinese weightlifter Xi breaks his own world record and wins gold in 73kg weightlifting | Japan news 28/07/2021 Chinese weightlifter Shi Qiong, who won gold in the 73kg weightlifting category, celebrates his success during his participation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday. Photo: Ergard Garrido/Reuters. TOKYO (Reuters) – Chinese weightlifter Shi Qiong broke his own world record in the men’s 73kg wei... | Break historical records | null | null |
One person dead, two injured in slide at copper and gold mine near Kamloops | Two New Gold employees received non-life threatening injuries and received medical care while one contract driller is dead. One person is dead and two others were injured after an underground mudslide at New Gold’s New Afton copper and gold mine near Kamloops early Tuesday morning. In a news release, the company said ... | Mine Collapses | null | null |
This start-up turns locust swarms in Kenya into animal feed | Environment The Bug Picture has worked for the last six weeks in Kenya to pilot a program that pays farmers to collect locusts from their fields in exchange for cash. Since late January, The Bug Picture has been paying people in rural Kenya to harvest locusts on their land. The insects are then ground up into pro... | Insect Disaster | null | null |
Southwest Gas says 'human error' led to pipe explosion at Chandler print shop | On Aug. 26, multiple crews responded to Ray and Rural roads around 9:30 a.m. after Platinum Printing exploded. Four men were hurt in the blast, including the two brothers, Andrew and Dillon Ryan, who own Platinum Printing. The Arizona Burn Center said all four had burns across their bodies ranging from 16% to 30%. They... | Gas explosion | null | null |
London builders' strike (1859) | The London builders' strike of 1859 was a strike and resulting lock out of building trade workers across London. The action did not result in any changes to working conditions, but it led to the formation of new, national trade unions in the United Kingdom. In London, building trade workers had secured a maximum ten-ho... | Strike | null | null |
Banja Luka incident crash |
The Banja Luka incident, on 28 February 1994, was an incident in which six Republika Srpska Air Force J-21 Jastreb single-seat light attack jets were engaged, and four of them shot down, by NATO warplanes from the United States Air Force. U.S. F-16 fighters southwest of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina successfully... | Air crash | null | null |
Debt crisis |
The European debt crisis, often also referred to as the eurozone crisis or the European sovereign debt crisis, is a multi-year debt crisis that has been taking place in the European Union (EU) since the end of 2009. Several eurozone member states (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Cyprus) were unable to repay or ... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
1949 Tierra del Fuego earthquakes | The 1949 Tierra del Fuego earthquakes occurred slightly more than eight hours apart on 17 December. Their epicenters were located in the east of the Chilean Tierra del Fuego Province, close to the Argentine border on the island of Tierra del Fuego. The two shocks measured 7.7 and 7.6 on the moment magnitude scale and w... | Earthquakes | null | null |
8 years after he killed his girlfriend, Olympic runner Pistorius is up for parole | Photographers take photos of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius as he appears at a bail hearing for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb 20, 2013. Eight years after he shot dead his girlfriend, Pistorius is up for parole, but first he must meet with her... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Release | null | null |
British Airways Flight 38 crash | British Airways Flight 38 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China to London Heathrow Airport in London, United Kingdom. On 17 January 2008, the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft operating the flight crashed just short of the runway while landing at Heathrow. [... | Air crash | null | null |
Apodaca prison riot |
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The Apodaca prison riot occurred on 19 February 2012 at a prison in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico. [3] Mexico City officials stated that at least 44 people were killed, with another twelve injured. [3] The Blog del Narco, a blog that documents events and people of the Mexican Drug War anonymously, re... | Riot | null | null |
When Saif Ali Khan said Virat Kohli-Anushka Sharma were ‘acing marriage’, but Kareena Kapoor wanted attention too | Saif Ali Khan once cited Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma as the exemplar of an ideal marriage. He said it in 2019 while speaking to his wife, Kareena Kapoor Khan, on her chat show What Women Want. Virat and Anushka, who got married in an intimate ceremony in Italy in 2017, welcomed daughter Vamika in January this year. ... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Kaylee McKeown breaks swimming world record, using father's death as motivation | Swimmer Kaylee McKeown says the death of her father 10 months ago inspired her to break the 100-metre backstroke world record on Sunday at the Australian Olympic trials.
The 19-year-old McKeown posted a time of 57.45 seconds at the South Australian Aquatic Centre to improve on the previous mark of 57.57 set by American... | Break historical records | null | null |
Puget Sound fishermen's strike of 1949 | Puget Sound fishermen's strike of 1949 was a labor strike by fishermen in the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest has an abundance of natural resources and beauty. One of those resources, fish, has a lot of meaning to the working-class people of the area. The fishing industry is special in the fact that its succes... | Strike | null | null |
Prosecutors Seek 45-Day Prison Sentence For Bradley Rukstales, First Illinois Resident To Plead Guilty In Capitol Insurrection | Prosecutors Seek 45-Day Prison Sentence For Bradley Rukstales, First Illinois Resident To Plead Guilty In Capitol Insurrection CBS 2's Charlie De Mar's Exclusive Interview With Rukstales Was Presented As EvidenceBy CBS 2 Chicago Staff November 4, 2021 at 9:57 pm Filed Under: Bradley Rukstales , Capitol Insurrection , C... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Sentence | null | null |
Death and state funeral of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq crash | The state funeral of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was held on 19 August 1988 in the Shah Faisal Mosque located in Islamabad, Pakistan. General Zia-ul-Haq, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) who was also serving as the President of Pakistan, was killed in a C-130 Hercules plane (Registration: 23494, call sign: Pak-1), crashed near the S... | Air crash | null | null |
Banat Air Flight 166 crash | Banat Air Flight 166 was an Antonov Antonov An-24 (registration YR-AMR) chartered on 13 December 1995 from Romavia by Banat Air. It was due to fly from Verona, Italy, to Timișoara, Romania, when it crashed shortly after take-off, killing all eight crewmembers and 41 passengers. It later emerged that the aircraft was se... | Air crash | null | null |
Pan Am Flight 816 crash | Pan Am Flight 816 was an international flight from Auckland, New Zealand, to San Francisco, California, via Tahiti, French Polynesia and Los Angeles. It was operated by a Pan Am Boeing 707-321B bearing the registration N417PA and named Clipper Winged Racer. [1] On July 22, 1973, at 10:06 P.M. local time, the Boeing 707... | Air crash | null | null |
Jockeys Recovering From ‘Awful Incident’ During Hong Kong International Races | Zac Purton was one of three jockeys to be hospitalized after a fall in Sunday's Hong Kong Sprint Lyle Hewitson has been released from ICU and says he is “no pain at all” after being involved in a frightening fall which led to four horses coming down during the Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin on Sunday. South Africa's three... | Famous Person - Recovered | null | null |
Paisley says Johnson told him he ‘would sign up to changing that protocol and indeed tearing it up’ | Paisley says Johnson told him he ‘would sign up to changing that protocol and indeed tearing it up’
Referring to Cummings’ claims that they needed to go to the country with a flawed deal to help with “whacking [Jeremy] Corbyn” in the election of 2019, Paisley added: “That comment has been verified by another source muc... | Tear Up Agreement | null | null |
Varig Flight 797 crash | Varig Flight 797 was a flight from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On 3 January 1987, the Boeing 707-320C crashed while landing, killing all 12 crew members and 38 of the 39 passengers. [2] After an engine failure, the pilot decided to return but misjudged the approach and stalled the aircraft. It cra... | Air crash | null | null |
Faster Horses Festival Ends In Tragedy After 3 Attendees Found Dead From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning | Three men were found dead in a camping trailer as a result of what is believed to be acute carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Faster Horses Festival in Lenawee County, Michigan ended in tragedy for four attendees over the weekend.
First responders were called to the scene of the three-day music and camping festiv... | Mass Poisoning | null | null |
Crown drops charges against Cape Breton man accused of murder in Annapolis Valley | The Crown has withdrawn all charges against one of two people accused of murdering a Hants County man in May 2020. Brandon Michael Doucette, 28, of L’Ardoise, Richmond County, was charged with second-degree murder, criminal negligence causing death and four firearm-related offences in the death of Robert Campbell of Fa... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Release | null | null |
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 304 crash | Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 304[1] was operated by a Vickers Viscount 700 aircraft owned by Trans-Canada Air Lines. On July 9, 1956, the No. 4 propeller of the aircraft tore loose from its engine over Flat Rock, Michigan in the United States, during a flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, ... | Air crash | null | null |
More women diagnosed with endometriosis amid greater awareness of the impact of severe period pain | Ms Stefanie Lim, 30, underwent surgery for endometriosis, a condition where lining typically found in the uterus grows outside of it. (Photo: Stefanie Lim)
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SINGAPORE: For about three years, Ms Stefanie Lim would feel such intense pain before, during and after her period that she would often have to take strong... | Famous Person - Sick | null | null |
State unemployment claims rise in N.C. following expiration of federal pandemic programs | The number of North Carolinians filing initial unemployment-insurance claims rose nearly 70% in the second week following the expiration of two key federal pandemic relief programs. The U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that North Carolina had 7,110 claims for the week that ended Sept. 18, compared with a revised... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Name released in fatal Hwy. 51 crash | Police have identified the man killed Wednesday in a crash south of Minocqua as Arnold P Wiesener, 68, of Hazelhurst. Dispatchers took a 911 call at about 6:37 p.m. Wednesday reporting the crash, on Hwy. 51 at County Road D in the town of Hazelhurst. Police say Wiesener was driving west in a 1973 Opel Classic 2-door se... | Road Crash | null | null |
Airlines PNG Flight 1600 crash | On 13 October 2011, Airlines PNG Flight 1600, a Dash 8 regional aircraft on a domestic flight from Lae to Madang, Papua New Guinea, crash-landed in a forested area near the mouth of the Gogol River, after losing all engine power. Only four of the 32 people on board survived. [1][2] It was the deadliest plane crash in t... | Air crash | null | null |
Conditions are ripe for repeat of 1970s stagflation and 2008 debt crisis | The United States could plunge into an immediate recession if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling and the country defaults on its payment obligations this fall, according to one analysis released Tuesday. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, found that a prolonged impasse over the debt ceiling would c... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Ant McPartlin 'forking out £100,000 to pay for mates to attend his wedding' | The I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! star will be signing off a huge bill as he is reportedly paying for 100 guests to stay at a £1,000 per night hotel at his nuptials Alex Jones Calls Out Ant McPartlin Over Cameraman Faux Pas Ant McPartlin will be looking at an even higher bill than anticipated following hi... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Gulf Hotel fire | The Gulf Hotel fire claimed 55 lives in the early-morning hours of September 7, 1943 in downtown Houston, Texas. This fire remains the cause of the worst loss of life in a fire in the city's history. The hotel was located on the northwest corner of Louisiana and Preston Streets and occupied the upper two floors of a th... | Fire | null | null |
1986 Commonwealth Final | The 1986 Commonwealth Final was the third running of the Commonwealth Final as part of the qualification for the 1986 Speedway World Championship. The 1986 Final was run on 8 June at the Belle Vue Stadium in Manchester, England, and was part of the World Championship qualifying for riders from the Commonwealth nations.... | Sports Competition | null | null |
NJ Gov. Begins Afghan Refugee Assistance Task Force | On Friday, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed Executive Order No. 256 to establish a task force to handle Afghan refugee assistance. The task force will be moderated by New Jersey Department of Military and Veteran Affairs Brigadier General Dr. Lisa Hou. It will coordinate the state’s efforts to properly prepare for a... | Organization Established | null | null |
Instances of lead poisoning in Rhode Island children rose during pandemic | No level of lead in the blood is safe and lead poisoning in children can contribute to lifelong cognitive problems that can manifest in lowered attention levels and academic achievement.
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Tokyo Olympics: American Ryan Crouser wins shot put gold, br... | Break historical records | null | null |
Active Covid-19 Cases Drop to 3,01,640, Lowest in 187 Days | India added 31,923 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,35,63,421, while the active cases declined to 3,01,640, the lowest in 187 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 4,46,050 with 282 fresh fatalities, according to the data... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
UPDATE: Death Toll Rises To Five In Lagos Gas Explosion | Lagos State Commissioner for Special Duties, Tayo Bamgbose-Martins, revealed this while speaking with journalists at the scene of the incident on Friday morning.
Five persons have so far lost their lives in the gas explosion that occurred on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, in the Maryland area of Lagos State, on Thursday ni... | Gas explosion | null | null |
Scientists want to eradicate “Black Death” in Africa using Covid-19 vaccine technology | These are the core obsessions that drive our newsroom—defining topics of seismic importance to the global economy. These are some of our most ambitious editorial projects. Enjoy! Our emails are made to shine in your inbox, with something fresh every morning, afternoon, and weekend. Scientists at the University of Oxfor... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Canada's Damian Warner strikes gold in Olympic decathlon | On a steamy night in Tokyo, Damian Warner was as cool as can be, recording the highest score ever in Olympic decathlon on his way to Canada's first gold medal in one of the Games' oldest and most storied events.
"It's been a long two days. When you go through the whole battle of the decathlon and finally finish and you... | Break historical records | null | null |
As Etna erupts and lights up the sky, mud pools to indicate its next move | Fountains of lava from Mount Etna have regularly lit up the Sicilian night sky since December, and scientists say that mud pools several kilometres from Europe's tallest active volcano hold the key to predicting what it will do next. The current cycle of eruptions - just like the other 200 or so that the Sicilian mount... | Volcano Eruption | null | null |
Molo fire | An oil spill ignition appeared in Molo, Kenya, on January 31, 2009, and resulted in the deaths of at least 113 people and critical injuries to over 200 more. The incident occurred when an oil spill from an overturned truck burst into flames as onlookers attempted to obtain remnants of the spilled fuel for personal use.... | Fire | null | null |
Solar eclipse tomorrow is viewable in Michigan, with one city up to 78 percent visible | There is a solar eclipse occurring at the start of our day tomorrow, Thursday, June 10, 2021. We will be able to view it, using safety first, if we have the correct positioning of our view. This will be a partial solar eclipse here in Michigan. The path of totality will be northeast of Michigan, in northeast Canada. T... | New wonders in nature | null | null |
Gray has been announced as one of the top 50 women's college basketball players on the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Watch List Tuesday afternoon | has been announced as one of the top 50 women's college basketball players on the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Watch List Tuesday afternoon. Chosen by a preseason poll of national college basketball experts, the list is comprised of 50 student-athletes who are early front-runners for the most prestigious honors in... | Awards ceremony | null | null |
Protests against the 2011 military intervention in Libya | Beginning on March 19, 2011 and continuing through the 2011 military intervention in Libya, anti-war protests against military intervention in Libya were held in many cities worldwide. According to an article by Fabíola Ortiz on March 25 on the online magazine Upside Down World, two small protests were organized in Bra... | Protest_Online Condemnation | null | null |
Round Oak rail accident |
The Round Oak railway accident happened on 23 August 1858 between Brettell Lane and Round Oak railway stations, on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. The breakage of a defective coupling caused seventeen coaches and one brake van, containing about 450 passengers, of an excursion train to run backwards d... | Train collisions | null | null |
2007 Parapan American Games | The 2007 Parapan American Games, officially the III Parapan American Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities, celebrated in the tradition of the Parapan American Games as governed by the Americas Paralympic Committee, held from August 12 to 19, 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ... | Sports Competition | null | null |
Victoria's environmental laws questioned after asbestos and eagle-killer cases |
It is 30 years since Victorian legislation was changed so illegal polluters could be sent to jail, and environmental lawyers like Brad Jessup believe it is time authorities finally put that power to use.
"They need to come down hard on someone," said Mr Jessup, a lecturer at the University of Melbourne Law School.
"An... | Environment Pollution | null | null |
Ukraine Air Alliance Flight 4050 crash | On 4 October 2019, Ukraine Air Alliance Flight 4050 crashed due to fuel exhaustion on approach to Lviv International Airport, during a flight from Vigo, Spain to Istanbul, Turkey via Lviv, Ukraine, killing five people, and three people were seriously injured. The aircraft was an Antonov An-12. The crash is currently un... | Air crash | null | null |
1976 swine flu outbreak | In 1976, an outbreak of the swine flu, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 at Fort Dix, New Jersey caused one death, hospitalized 13, and led to a mass immunization program. After the program began, the vaccine was associated with an increase in reports of Guillain-Barr Syndrome, which can cause paralysis, respiratory arres... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
2010 Pakistan floods |
The floods in Pakistan began in late July 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and, Balochistan regions of Pakistan, which affected the Indus River basin. Approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's total land area was affected by floods, with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province fac... | Floods | null | null |
Britain left the European Union on Friday after 47 years of membership | Published Friday, January 31, 2020 2:26AM EST Last Updated Friday, January 31, 2020 8:04PM EST With little fanfare, Britain left the European Union on Friday after 47 years of membership, taking a leap into the unknown in a historic blow to the bloc. The U.K.'s departure became official at 11 p.m. midnight in Brussels... | Withdraw from an Organization | null | null |
Aeroflot Flight 5463 crash | Aeroflot Flight 5463 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Chelyabinsk to Almaty which crashed on 30 August 1983 while approaching Almaty. The Tupolev Tu-134A collided with the western slope of Dolan Mountain at an altitude of 690 m (2,260 ft). As a result of the accident, all ninety people on board were killed. ... | Air crash | null | null |
Beni Suef Cultural Palace fire | The Beni Suef Cultural Palace fire occurred in Beni Suef, Egypt, on September 5, 2005 and killed 46 people. The Cultural Palace was overcrowded at the occasion of the Amateur Theatre Festival when a burning candle lit paper scenery on the stage and started a conflagration. A stampede erupted towards a single exit. Fi... | Fire | null | null |
Banks’ 2021 Reality: A ‘Revenue Recession’ In The Midst Of An Economic Recovery | After Biden’s stimulus, the era of small states, low taxes and balanced budgets suddenly looks to be over Last modified on Thu 8 Apr 2021 22.16 BST A wealth tax to help pay for the cost of fighting the pandemic. An international agreement to prevent a race to the bottom on corporate tax. An insistence that recovery fro... | Financial Crisis | null | null |
Pakistan lost the 1971 war, but its project of Islamist violence won the larger conflict | What did India gain from the 1971 victory? It now faces a country with an uncertain future in the East and a Pakistan that is ever more committed to using violence. Fifty years ago, on 16 December 1971, Lieutenant-General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, the Commander of the Pakistan Eastern Command, signed the Instrument of... | Regime Change | null | null |
2019 Philippines Beechcraft King Air crash | On 1 September 2019, a Beechcraft King Air 350 crashed into a tourist resort in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines while performing a medevac flight from Dipolog to Manila. [2] All nine occupants aboard were killed in the crash. [3]
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), the aircraft with regis... | Air crash | null | null |
2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot |
The 2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot was a reaction to the suicide of a black man who was being pursued by police for his alleged involvement in a homicide on August 26, 2020, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Unfounded rumors that Minneapolis police officers had shot the man quickly spread on social media, and set o... | Riot | null | null |
Justice News | David H. Estes, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, speaks during a news conference Nov. 22, 2021, to announce indictments in USA v. Patricio et al, Operation Blooming Onion, a human trafficking investigation naming 24 defendants on felony charges including human smuggling and document fraud. Wit... | Famous Person - Commit Crime - Investigate | null | null |
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India, Pakistan become full members of SCO | As an SCO member, India is expected to have a bigger say in pressing for concerted action in dealing with terrorism as well as on issues relating to security and defence in the region.
India on Friday became a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), ending an administrative process that began two ye... | Join in an Organization | null | null |
2006 Progressive Enterprises dispute |
The 2006 Progressive Enterprises Dispute was an industrial dispute between New Zealand supermarket company Progressive Enterprises and employees represented by the National Distribution Union and the EPMU. On 25 August 2006, over 500 employees at Progressive's four distribution centres (in Auckland, Palmerston North ... | Strike | null | null |
Kaley Cuoco is reportedly ‘doing fine’ amid divorce from Karl Cook: ‘She has a big career and puts that first in her life’ | Kaley Cuoco is reportedly "doing fine" amid her divorce from Karl Cook as he returned to social media for the first time in a month — and made it clear he won't be discussing the split.
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Kaley Cuoco is reportedly "doing fine" amid her divorce from Karl Cook as he returned to ... | Famous Person - Divorce | null | null |
Wincrest Nursing Home fire |
The Wincrest Nursing Home fire took place on Friday, January 30, 1976, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The fire occurred when an arsonist set a wardrobe closet on fire at the Wincrest Nursing Home building, located at 6326 N. Winthrop Avenue. The alarm sounded at 11:30 a.m. and the fire was put out at 1:30 p.m. ... | Fire | null | null |
2009 Jeddah floods |
The 2009 Saudi Arabian floods affected Jeddah, on the Red Sea (western) coast of Saudi Arabia, and other areas of Makkah Province. [2][3] They have been described by civil defence officials as the worst in 27 years. [4] As of 3 January 2010, some 122 people had been reported to have been killed,[1] and more than 350 ... | Floods | null | null |
Investing in national public health institutes for future pandemics: Lessons from Nigeria | Guidance for the Brookings community and the public on our response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) » Learn more from Brookings scholars about the global response to coronavirus (COVID-19) » Below is a Viewpoint from Chapter 2 of the Foresight Africa 2021 report, which explores top priorities for the region in the coming... | Disease Outbreaks | null | null |
Northern Bank robbery: The crime that nearly ended the peace process | The robbery of Belfast's Northern Bank is one of the most audacious thefts in UK history. Armed raiders took £26.5m from the vaults at the headquarters on Donegall Square, quietly loaded it into crates inside a white lorry and drove away into the night. The crime had huge political ramifications for the Northern Irelan... | Bank Robbery | null | null |
Beresfield railway station |
Beresfield railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia. It opened on 31 July 1925, serving the western Newcastle suburb of Beresfield. [2]
On 23 October 1997, Beresfield was the site of a major rail accident, when a FreightCorp coal train passed a red signal and collided with t... | Train collisions | null | null |
The Foreign Office has updated its travel advice for Europe, warning of a "high threat" of attacks in countries including France and Germany. | The Foreign Office has updated its travel advice for Europe, warning of a "high threat" of attacks in countries including France and Germany.
Previously it had advised only of a "general threat" but an FCO spokeswoman said the safety of Britons abroad was of major concern.
The US has also advised vigilance in Europe be... | Sign Agreement | null | null |
When Nawaz Sharif’s grandson Junaid Safdar’s wife Ayesha turned heads in Sabyasachi lehenga on wedding day | Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s grandson Junaid Safdar married Ayesha Saif Khan in a private ceremony in London on August 22. Junaid Safdar is the son of Maryam Nawaz, who is Nawaz Sharif’s daughter. The wedding was held at the luxurious Lanesborough hotel. Ayesha Saif Khan’s father Saifur Rahman is the... | Famous Person - Marriage | null | null |
Examples of Horizontal Integration | Horizontal integration is the merger of two or more companies that occupy similar levels in the production supply chain. However, they may be in the same or different industries. The process is also known as lateral integration and is the opposite of vertical integration whereby companies that are at different stages i... | Organization Merge | null | null |
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